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Digital Speaker Balance Control with ROON

This is just an FYI for you ROON fanatics.

I sit slightly to the left of the center spot in my office system. I normally use the BALANCE control of my Benchmark HPA4 preamp to adjust for this seating position.

However, today I moved the HPA4 to my Livingroom and put in the Holo Serene in the office. The Serene does not have any features that you would like in a preamp, it just sounds rather good. So, no BALANCE control. I was willing to live with that since I want the HPA4 in the Livingroom.

I was wondering if ROON had anything for BALANCE since I was familiar with CONVOLUTION filters running on ROON. I had not seen the SPEAKER SETUP filter before (or maybe the current feature set was updated). There was a provision to set the distance from the 2 speakers to the seating position. I entered the magic numbers and had perfect balance. This was even better than the analog balance from the HPA4 preamp. It sounds great and bit perfect.

Love ROON. Killer features and I have NO issues with the sound.

 

 

yyzsantabarbara
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bruce19
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Thanks for that valuable tip! I can’t believe I’ve had run for years and didn’t realize it could do this. It is truly the Swiss Army knife of audio software.

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tksteingraber
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News to me …I need to spend some time to get up to speed with Roon.  These features sound good but for some reason I can’t seem to locate these settings.  Can someone clue me in on how to access these features.  I will go on the Roon site as well to search for help.   Many Thanks

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tksteingraber
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Ok was able to locate Muse under the speaker icon.  Found all the cool features.  Thanks for mentioning this or not🤪

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wsrrsw
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Roon keeps in keeping on. I find that’s all I use especially now that it can save a song to a Qobuz playlist. Praise Jah. 

yyzsantabarbara OP
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I have been using the Stereo Setup feature now for a couple of days and I must say this is a fantastic feature. It sounds way better than doing the same thing in the analog domain with my Benchmark HPA4 preamp. Only issue is that I get this benefit only with my streaming, not with my turner which I use from 9AM - 12PM M-F.

You will notice how powerful ROON is if you have multiple zones and also use headphones. Adding convolution filters to specific endpoint also takes the complexity up a lot. It all works great, but I removed my Convolution filters after getting different gear. 

Using a Convolution filter would have also resolved my Balance issue but that is incredibly complicated to do correctly, and I only get a professional to create those filters. I used this guy in the past.

Digital Room Calibration Services, Convolver, Headphone Filtersets (accuratesound.ca)

 

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