sifka4
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Does anyone else find that their ears are unequal in their hearing capabilities? I recently purchased a set of Hippo VB IEMs and it seems that the bass is more apparent in one ear, while the treble is better in the other. I was ready to call the IEMs faulty, but I used a mono track and Audacity to test my ears.
When using the L/R slider with my eyes closed, I tended to move the slider 10-20% to the right. When I swapped the IEMs into the opposite ears, oddly enough the middle sounded not as bad as before, but I would still push about 10% to the left side (my right ear).
It sounds like my right ear just doesn't want to hear the bass as well as the left. I'm thinking my few years of driving my car with two 12" subs in the trunk has burned out the low end frequencies for my right ear; in the car, the bass is always louder on the right side of my head compared to the left.
I'm still not 100% convinced, but it's driving me nuts everytime I listen to music now. I don't think isolation is an issue because I am using some Comply tips that seem to offer the best isolation I've ever had.
Has anyone else experienced this?
When using the L/R slider with my eyes closed, I tended to move the slider 10-20% to the right. When I swapped the IEMs into the opposite ears, oddly enough the middle sounded not as bad as before, but I would still push about 10% to the left side (my right ear).
It sounds like my right ear just doesn't want to hear the bass as well as the left. I'm thinking my few years of driving my car with two 12" subs in the trunk has burned out the low end frequencies for my right ear; in the car, the bass is always louder on the right side of my head compared to the left.
I'm still not 100% convinced, but it's driving me nuts everytime I listen to music now. I don't think isolation is an issue because I am using some Comply tips that seem to offer the best isolation I've ever had.
Has anyone else experienced this?