Hi E of E,
Thank you for your most welcoming post 
it looks like you have helped multiple Harris-kind with their CI-Uniti 102s recently 
It’s overall positive you were able to do this re individual speaker config in a way that worked for you. I have not found the option to do so on my MacOS Focal and Naim Manager app - at least not for stereo output. I appreciate the channels can be separated to mono - but I couldn’t lose the dimensionality of these speakers! If you were able to get them working via stereo, I would be very grateful to know how.
As per the F&N Manager Manual, & Claude’s interpretation of the relevant page:
- Stereo: left→left, right→right (proper stereo), but both outputs are forced to share the same EQ settings. That’s why the built-in EQ was only ever a shared 4-band — the hardware won’t let you EQ the channels differently in stereo.
- Mono: L and R are summed and sent to both speakers, and then you can give each output its own EQ.
So to directly answer you: yes, switching to Mono lets you configure L and R independently in the app — but it is no longer stereo. Both speakers would play the same summed (mono) signal. You’d lose all imaging and soundstage. For music that’s a non-starter. The Naim simply cannot do per-channel EQ and keep stereo on its own — that’s a hard limitation of the box, and it’s the whole reason we moved the per-channel work to the server.
With which I’m inclined to agree.
… not to put words in your mouth but at this point it looks like this was, at one point, your main critique of this DSP! /t/the-dearth-of-naim/40584/235
I would certainly appreciate the ability to tinker further with customisable 10+ channel EQ without purchasing yet another piece of equipment; I suspect this is not a CI-Uniti 102 processing power issue, but yet another corporate decision.
Thank you again for your message and regardless, this is a bloody good all-in-one in its own right.
