What position is your balance control set at and why?


For best balance and sound mine is set at 1-1:30. The right channel always seems lower. I have some hearing damage in my right ear from listening to car stereos in my youth. I’m 56. I do have ringing in my right ear but not the left. I have very bad sight out of my right eye which surprisingly make a difference in hearing. The left eye sees the left speaker most of the time and there must be some pyscho acoustic effect because if I close my eyes some of it goes away.  My clip light used to comes on and stays on maybe every 2-3 weeks and I would unplug everything and it would go away. Until I discovered if I stomp my foot hard it goes away! Funny like a plumber coming in and beating a pipe with a hammer and charging you $150!!!! The sound doesn’t change when that happens.  Go figure that. When I had a cable with a network box it would light up quite often. In the last 3 months I have changed out all cabling with Pangea interconnects and Canare 4S11 speaker cable. Is there some kind of low voltage issue with the right channel that would make the clip light come on even with any music playing???????
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For what its worth, I do notice that most rock music guitar solos are in the right channel.

ozzy
Excepting hearing loss or unmatched tubes, the most common reason not to use a centered balance control is if your room’s rear or side walls are not symmetric with regard to placement of your speakers. This also happens if one side wall has openings, or is more absorbing than the other for some reason. The central image will shift to that side as there are stronger speaker reflections from the opposite side wall.

While you can use a balance control to offset this, it still never really sounds quite right because the reverbarent fields of the left and right speakers are different even though the apparent volumes have been equalized. You also can see this difference if you use measurement programs like REW.

One other way to deal with this is to use a moveable reflective surface near the speaker on the problem wall if room layout/decor is the problem.



Thanks for the responses. I have switched cables and speakers around but still the right channel will light up. Mike
If you’ve done all of this as well as amp/source left for right, and it’s still the right, then it’s your room causing it.

Cheers George