It comes with a balance knob?!?! I'll take it!

What an education so far!

• Never purchase concert seats where one of my ears face the speaker stack
• Never setup my system in an awkwardly shaped space
• Avoid tube solutions
• Avoid poorly recorded tracks with off-center imaging
• Make sure my pre or integrated remote has balance control in case any of the above happen!

Balance on a remote is something I've never seen but probably the best thing I've learned from this post because I have run into tracks where the vocalist is off center and am now curious if a balance adjustment does "fix" this without killing the overall presentation?

Over the past 3 years i’ve been doing a bunch of research and then design on a new method for remote-driven volume. Since its inherently dual mono, balance is there.

Unless you have a dedicated listening room with one chair, the combination is a revelation. I have real music room. But i also spend 70% of y listening time and much of the social listening in my living/great/common room, where there is no center seat. Seated in an off-center chair, reading or whatever, its awesome to move the balance db by db and suddenly have the image lock in.

Just sayin’ Maybe no one asks, but they know not what they are missing. Caveat - if you have to get up, move sit down, rinse and repeat, the magic is lost.

Oh, and with modern methods, there is no noise/distortion penalty to having balance (with traditional series designs there is)

+1 @oldhvymec 

...the voice of experience...

hey eric - joke aside its right there int he sound control panel.

Cleverly labeled 'balance" at least in MacOS 12

My pre has dual Amtrans selector switch  dual transformer based volume control. I found this invaluable in extracting  a stable, consistent center image that no longer requires balance adjustments. Whenever I hear off center image now know due to recording or ear wax buildup.