Yonatan Zunger (zunger) wrote,
Yonatan Zunger
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  • Music: Temptation Waits-Garbage

Interesting discovery...

Some recorded music uses stereo rather extensively: The two sound channels don't sound much alike at all. You don't notice this quite as much on speakers as you do on headphones.

Apparently, when I listen to such music on headphones, if I wear them the "right" way the music sounds slightly choppy and disorienting - but if I flip the headphones, so the right channel goes to my left ear and vice-versa, the music suddenly sounds completely natural. Apparently ear dominance is a real and easily detected thing.

Creepy.
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moof

March 20 2003, 21:21:31 UTC 12 years ago

If you have good speakers placed sufficiently far apart - as in, more than 8' or so - the stereo seperation is much more noticable. Ideally, you aim them towards one particular sweet spot instead of letting them diffuse in parallel.

anthologie

March 20 2003, 22:28:42 UTC 12 years ago

Interesting. I am mostly right-side dominant, but usually am left-eye dominant.

Maybe that's why I am so goddamn clumsy.