What is channel imbalance and how do you test for it?

[MusicMan5]

Ye.

 

[dunring]

For headphones use a decibel meter phone app and online test tone generator. Sweep frequencies and switch playback to left and right to compare in a quiet room.

 

[MusicMan5]

For headphones use a decibel meter phone app and online test tone generator. Sweep frequencies and switch playback to left and right to compare in a quiet room.

So you do it by ear? It doesn't graph them or something? What about the whole "phone ear" thing? Isn't one ear inherently more sensitive than the other?

 

[gregorio]

So you do it by ear?

Phones/Phone apps don’t have ears.

It doesn't graph them or something?

A decibel meter doesn’t “graph them”, it presents the decibel level. Typically an average over time and a peak level.

What about the whole "phone ear" thing?

What “phone ear thing”?

Isn't one ear inherently more sensitive than the other?

In different frequency ranges “yes”, quite significantly (variations of several dB) usually.

G

 

[Digital Enigma]

Hearing isn’t 100% balanced, no one’s Audiogram should be perfectly flat. I find the imbalance annoying/distracting with headphones so I don’t use them.