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Originally Posted by sickofforumnames /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I'm a bit deaf in one ear! Therefore, one of my considerations when buying a player is that it should have a balance control.
Does this player have one?
thanks.
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i wish i could give you a definitive answer, as i dont own one i cant say, it states in the tech specs that the vibez has a fully parametric equalizer, well normally parametric equalizers have 2 modes, amongst the other options, stereo l-r and a sliding scale between l and r.
but reason i replied was that i very recently, in the last week or so have discovered something about my own hearing, i was listening to my iriver ihp140 with rockbox and some flac files, and was playing about with the balance control in rockbox, and noticed that for me, my left ear was getting more of the signal than my right when at 0% - dead in the middle of l-r, after much fine tuning with different songs, i find out that purely based on what my ears were telling me, the 'center ground' for me, the sweet spot where my brain told me it was symetrically balanced in stereo was at -8% in the rockbox value. thus giving my left ear back its deserved portion of the soundstage, so all this time, forever - i can only assume i have been listening to music askew, always off center, not true symetrical stereo, minor as this is in the grand scheme of things, i was pretty shocked.
suffice to say, i have rockbox to thank for highlighting this very small, but worthy of correcting impediment.
and now i get to listen to all my music library again with a new pair of ears!!!!
p.s. i am sure a vibez owner will be good enough to give us an answer on this...
