Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

[Ripper2860]

Here's a question for the masses. I have a hearing imbalance that is not terrible, but noticeable. I find that adding a couple clicks of gain to the right ear make a noticeable change in soundstage. Most of my components have built in balance control (thank you Schiit!). I ordered a passive balanced preamp that has separate R and L controls. I figured this could go between my phono pre and the Freya N.

My thought is to use a SYS on just the left channel to attenuate just the left channel. So I would have the source connected directly to the amplifier for the right channel. I would then have one channel of the SYS between the source left output and amplifier left input.

Is this a good or bad idea? It's not elegant and, depending on this passive pre I've ordered, might be a temporary fix. This would only be for my analog sources since Roon does digital balance control for my streaming endpoints. Anyone have thoughts? Thanks.

This sounds like a good solution to me. I see no real downside to it.

 

[KoshNaranek]

5:50am is a totally normal time to be at work, right?
Asking for a friend…

Your friend is late. Wake up time is 4:30 AM and be at work by 5:30 AM

 

[Ableza]

Greetings from Monterey Cali.

Here for grandkid b-day and to teach them curse words to torture their parents.

 

[Ripper2860]

Happy Friday / TGIF (or Saturday if applicable)!!

** Available on Tidal and Qobuz.

 

[Les Strat]

Happy Thursday (or TGIF if you are one of the lucky ones)!!

Great album!

Saw JA about 12 years ago in a small local venue.

I also saw Focus in 1972!

 

[ThorCorps]

Here's a question for the masses. I have a hearing imbalance that is not terrible, but noticeable. I find that adding a couple clicks of gain to the right ear make a noticeable change in soundstage. Most of my components have built in balance control (thank you Schiit!). I ordered a passive balanced preamp that has separate R and L controls. I figured this could go between my phono pre and the Freya N.

My thought is to use a SYS on just the left channel to attenuate just the left channel. So I would have the source connected directly to the amplifier for the right channel. I would then have one channel of the SYS between the source left output and amplifier left input.

Is this a good or bad idea? It's not elegant and, depending on this passive pre I've ordered, might be a temporary fix. This would only be for my analog sources since Roon does digital balance control for my streaming endpoints. Anyone have thoughts? Thanks.

Perfectly reasonable. I did that with a SYS several years ago, when my home office setup had one speaker closer to me than the other. Worked just great.

 

[jonathan c]

Greetings from Monterey Cali.

Here for grandkid b-day and to **teach them curse words** to torture their parents.

** in different languages?

 

[unclefred]

Not when you are wearing them.......

I grew up in Salem, what general area did you end up in?

 

[corndog71]

5:50am is a totally normal time to be at work, right?
Asking for a friend…

My ideal start time is around 11:00am. Pity I haven’t had that in over 20 years. There is no good reason to be up before the sun.

 

[Ableza]

** in different languages?

Si.

 

[Ripper2860]

Definitely an audiophile teaching opportunity...

"This stereo sounds like ass!"
"Este estéreo suena como culo!" - Spanish
"Questo stereo fa proprio schifo!" - Italian
"Cette stéréo sonne comme un cul!" - French
"Diese Stereoanlage klingt beschissen!" - German
"เสียงสเตอริโอนี่มันเหมือนอะไรวะ!" - Thai

 

[Ableza]

I prefer the first five REM albums when they were still an exciting new jangle-punk band on IRS Records. Then they went pop.

 

[jonathan c]

I prefer the first five REM albums when they were still an exciting new jangle-punk band on IRS Records. Then they went pop.

.... I feel the same way about early U2 .... then they acted important .... Bono at Davos World Economic Forum? .... [Frank Zappa title: 'Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar']

 

[artur9]

.... I feel the same way about early U2 .... then they acted important .... Bono at Davos World Economic Forum? .... [Frank Zappa title: 'Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar']

I think it's ironic that musicians used to play for royalty, then they pretended they didn't, then they go to world "leaders" summits....

 

[45longcolt]

If the cars aren't in the garage, maybe it's because they're on lease, they'll be gone in a year or two, so who cares?