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era300 stereo adjustment left-right?

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Hi,

i think i know the answer but.. i have a stereo pair of era300 and i enjoy them a lot in my bedroom. Depending on where i sleep, i’d like to adjust stereo left/right but there is nothing in the app. For my five i have a stereo left/right adjustment (single speaker)

i suppose no chance to have it for era 300?

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Corry PAnswer

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Hi @arslanelver

Some more information recently came to my attention.

It is now intentional that Era 300 speakers do not have a balance control available:

As Era 300 is the first fully immersive stand-alone speaker capable of playing back many channels simultaneously (beyond the standard left/right), balance settings were a feature that made less sense for this specific product. As such, they have been removed from the app.

To be clear, an issue was found with balance sliders not showing when they should, but it was not specific to Era 300s - it was this issue that was resolved.

I hope this helps.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

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Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

I wouldn’t argue with the “remove from app” decision if I could find all Atmos music to listen too but it would still be nice to have when I’m reduced to a stereo stream.

Ken_Griffiths

I wouldn’t argue with the “remove from app” decision if I could find all Atmos music to listen too but it would still be nice to have when I’m reduced to a stereo stream.

Yes, I’ve even suggested in posts here that the Era 300 balance control could perhaps become available if the user disables the ‘Spatial Audio’ toggle button in the Era 300 ‘room’ settings - that, at least, would be a worthwhile compromise, perhaps?

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Didgplayer

Lyricist I

There should be a setting for movies/ gaming and one for music. When using the speakers for surround sound, by all means, let the tech do its thing. But when listening to music (records in our case) let me have the ability to control balance…

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enra

Lyricist I

I'm in the same boat, before the advanced tuning the balance was clearly one-sided, now it's only slightly right-leaning (if in doubt it's worth borrowing an iPhone, the quick tuning didn't do anything for the balance). Despite that I'm still hear it and I'm torn whether to keep the Era 300 or return it and try the Era 100 or look elsewhere (as an Android user I'm unfortunately still missing a few basics of the new app apart from the Sonos playlists such as control via the status bar/lock screen even though it's running stable again for me now). It's sad, it's so unnecessary because otherwise I really like the 300.

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