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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited October 2007
    treitz3 wrote: »
    That's all I could take before I started crying. I'm SO sorry.:(

    They are still knobs of sin and I am just answering the new gentleman's question.
    :p:p:D
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited October 2007
    treitz3 wrote: »
    That's all I could take before I started crying. I'm SO sorry.:(

    They are still knobs of sin and I am just answering the new gentleman's question.


    Lol....knobs of sin....lol.. Thats a good one.
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited October 2007
    IIIII caaaaaannnnnntttttt ttttuuuuurrrrrnnnnn.....

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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited October 2007
    No need to over complicate the simple, use your balance knob to compensate.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited October 2007
    ctrulock wrote:
    ATM im listening to Cat Stevens!

    That would be Yusuf Islam...the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens. He would have been better off with a symbol. :rolleyes:

    What's a balance knob?
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited October 2007
    It would be best to buy a new house with the right acoustics.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited October 2007
    madmax wrote:
    It would be best to buy a new house with the right acoustics.
    madmax

    Now there is a true AUDIOPHILE! :D
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited October 2007
    I use my balance nob to make sure both speakers have signals andto make sure the left side is receiving the left signal.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited October 2007
    This balance stuff is just crazy. How can you know it is even off unless you do a double blind ABX test to prove it. You just see the door there and your mind is tricking you into thinking the level is different....
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited October 2007
    madmax wrote: »
    This balance stuff is just crazy. How can you know it is even off unless you do a double blind ABX test to prove it. You just see the door there and your mind is tricking you into thinking the level is different....
    madmax

    +1. It's all audio voodoo and a conspiracy by the knob manufacturers to get people to buy knobs they don't need. After all, research shows that sound balance can't be measured.
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  • Yashu
    Yashu Posts: 772
    edited October 2007
    I agree (as in, the control is there, why not try it out)... while I don't use the balance, I do use tone controls on my NAD pre, to cut the treble down a notch since I have sensitive ears. If the knobs are there, and the circuits are done right, which in the case of balance, it is hard to do it wrong!

    The best "balance" controls are on the pres that use dual mono construction, and where the volume knob turns two pots, one for the left and one for the right, and so the "balance" control involves the movement of one more than the other. I can't see anything wrong with that.
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