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Check sound balance if audio quality has dropped
Authored by: blueaudio on Sep 23, '05 02:48:17AM
I'm seeing this problem for the first time recently. I'm running 10.4.2, and I can duplicate the problem by closing all applications except System Preferences, and then changing the volume up and down using the volume keys on the standard Apple keyboard.

I couldn't find any way to fix it using Audio Midi Setup, but I did happen across this site:

http://www.whamb.com/balanced/

It is described as "an output volume balance adjustment daemon for Mac OS X Tiger" and it might help others here. I'm trying it now and it seems to be doing its job quite well. Hopefully Apple will find a fix for this longstanding problem, but until then this seems to work.

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audio imbalance
Authored by: sjk on Sep 23, '05 05:59:20PM

Thanks for the info. I never had this problem before 10.4(.1/.2) but now it occasionally happens on my iMac G5. Haven't noticed it on my wife's eMac.



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Check sound balance if audio quality has dropped
Authored by: chazzzzy on Oct 26, '05 11:24:15AM

Blueaudio.. I just installed your daemon and it works great. My only concern is .. does this daemon use up resources? Should I be worried about that? Does the fact that it fixes the balance after say a second mean that it is checking the balance every second and using up resources?

Thanks so much!

Charles



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Check sound balance if audio quality has dropped
Authored by: mweissen on Jan 17, '06 02:49:55AM

The webpage says it registers for CoreAudio events. So it's event-driven, not polling.



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http://www.whamb.com/balanced/
Authored by: rajas on May 21, '06 01:19:11PM

This did it for me, thank you very much indeed!
~Boris



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