Can I tweak L-R balance by differntial biasing?


My new (to me) Almarro integrated does not have a balance control but my room is slightly asymmetrical. I'm playing a little w speaker toe-in to try to correct this, but I just had another idea. Bias spec is 0.20 volts, with 0.18 volts suggested as a minimum which will reduce output slightly but provide more tube life. It seems to me that if I bias the output tube slightly lower on the "louder" side, it might shift the balance slightly toward the side that is biased higher. Does that make any sense???
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Very interesting idea. I am also trying to deal with an asymmetrical room and a preamp without balance control...
Doing that will probably make the 2 channels sound different from each other. I have no idea if you would be able to hear the difference if that's the case. But its something to consider.
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Zd542- I thought of that but desperate times call for desperate measures ;-) Also I was thinking about only going from 0.20v nominal to 0.19v. So far the bias seems rock steady so I might go to a more sensitive scale on my VOM and try going up 0.05v on one and down 0.05v on the other. I realize that the differential is the same but...who knows. I readily admit my technical ignorance so i thought i'd throw this out there any see if anyone has ever tried it.