Please add balance control.

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Nico

Would be nice to see balance control added for room correction or when you suffer from hearing loss in one ear. A friend of mine for example has mild hearing loss in his right ear and he would love the same set up I have (Node+active speakers) but he needs balance control to even out the output of the speakers for his ears. I think balance control will be a welcome addition for many people.

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  • Official comment
    Bjørn Ulvik
    Hi-Res

    There is a balance control under the Audio Settings.  It has been there for a long time.  Maybe always.

    Balance trim was added to a few players April 26, 2022 (3.18.7)

    POWERNODE (N150), POWERNODE 2, POWERNODE 2i, POWERNODE 2v2 (with HDMI), POWERNODE (N330)
    NAD M10, M10 V2, C 700, CI 720, and CI 720 V2
    Bluesound Professional B160S

  • mr. charles

    There is a balance control under the Audio Settings.  It has been there for a long time.  Maybe always.

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  • Alain DW
    Lossless

    Can't find it in windows nor android controller.Only a tone control is possible, unless I'm missing something.

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  • Bjørn Ulvik
    Hi-Res

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  • Alain DW
    Lossless

    I see, I'm just a lowly user of an old Node2. I do my balancing on my amplifier, as it should be, I guess;)

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  • Nico

    There's no balance control on the Node N130. However, since balance control is present in the pre-amplifier stage of the Powernodes, and the Node can be used as a pre-amp, it should be easy to implement it.

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  • Tony W.
    Product Support Manager

    Hi Nico

    As Alain suggested, balance should happen at the Amplifier end and not before.

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  • Nico
    • Edited

    Tony, have you ever seen a stereo power amp with balance control? I sure haven't. 

    Also, when you have an integrated amp with bass/treble/balance it often has a button marked direct, pure direct, line direct or something to that effect. When you engage that button all the processing in the pre-amp stage is bypassed. Even some stand alone pre-amps have bass/treble/balance control and a line direct feature to bypass it. It's always done in the pre-amp stage.

    If it's possible to add it to the Node, please consider it.

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  • Seppi Evans
    Hi-Res
    • Edited

    Nico, the cheapest amp in the NAD range has a balance and tone controls.

    https://nadelectronics.com/product/c-316bee-v2-stereo-integrated-amplifier/

    Ah you mean a power amp! Yes I have had a few mono blocks with volume control on each - same effect as balance.

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  • Joergen

    I agree with Nico above, it would be great if a balance control was added. I am a relatively new user of blusound, I have a node x. I must say I was quite surprised that there was no balance control, coming from a sonos port which has it. I run a denon amp in pure direct mode, that bypasses bass/treble/balance control which increases the sound quality significantely in my system. And I would say most of us do not have a perfect listening room, so balance adjustment is kind of a basic function needed in my view.
    So is there any possibility and plans to include a balance control?

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