Dominant ear

PolkThug
PolkThug Posts: 7,532
edited March 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
Ever compared your ears as to which one hears better?

Listen to a voicemail with the phone receiver up to one ear, then, listen to the same message with the other ear.

My left ear has much better detail than my right ear. I suppose 16 years of subwoofer bass has taken its toll.

Regards,
PolkThug
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited December 2004
    Originally posted by PolkThug


    My left ear has much better detail than my right ear
    Regards,
    PolkThug

    same here
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  • okiepolkie
    okiepolkie Posts: 2,258
    edited December 2004
    What?

    I have better hearing out of my right ear.
    When I got braces, they moved my jaw and now my left ear doesn't drain as well(blocking my hearing).
    Tschüss
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  • ninerbj
    ninerbj Posts: 870
    edited December 2004
    WHAT??? HUH??? :confused:
    "she had the body of Venus, with arms."
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited December 2004
    I have hearing loss in my left ear, but I don't really notice it when listening to music.
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  • Polkapops
    Polkapops Posts: 267
    edited December 2004
    I've noticed my left ear has always worked best when on the phone etc., but everything's equal when it comes to listening in stereo and what not - I never gave it much thought, just figured it was normal - kinda like being right or left handed.......

    .......but I'm Polish..........so I have an excuse.........;)
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  • wodom1
    wodom1 Posts: 1,054
    edited December 2004
    I also noticed that I can hear the phone better in my left ear than I can in my right. I've never noticed any difference when I'm listening to music, though.
    "I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very depressed."

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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited December 2004
    So, it seems common, or at least everyone who has responded, has a "dominant ear." For some reason, I thought I was more alone with this issue. :)

    Are you guys with dominant left ears also right handed like me?
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited December 2004
    I can hear better out of my left ear.
    I can see better out of my right eye.
    I write and eat with my left hand but do everything else right handed.

    Im all screwed up. :(
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited December 2004
    Originally posted by MacLeod

    Im all screwed up. :(

    Nope, you're just amphibious!
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited December 2004
    Probably TMI, but here's a scientific study from Stanford (might appeal to the graphers in the group):

    Ear Dominance for Pitch Stimuli
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited December 2004
    Originally posted by PolkThug
    Nope, you're just amphibious!

    LOL!!

    That would explain my looks and why I have seemed to be anti-attractive to chicks all my life! :p
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited December 2004
    My ears are pretty much the same, but my left nipple is way more sensitive!!

    Does that count?:D :D:D
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  • Polkapops
    Polkapops Posts: 267
    edited December 2004
    Left ear
    Right hand
    Originally posted by PolkThug
    Nope, you're just amphibious!

    Ambidextrous!
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited December 2004
    My right ear is a lot worse but I know why. Military. Doesn't really affect music listening, or is this why I can't tell a difference between cables and interconnects? ;)
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  • ntculenuff
    ntculenuff Posts: 1,146
    edited December 2004
    3db loss in the left ear. when i was 16 and had my lowrider truck (man i am getting old) i thought it was cool to put a speaker in the cut out ear level on the side panel.. had a 61/2 in co-axiel firing right into my left ear man that was the coolest yeah!!!!
    wish i would have known a little more about sound then as i do now
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited December 2004
    Try almost 30 years of driving around on jet engines.

    My hearing is so shot it's pathetic.

    George Grand (of the Jersey Grands)
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited December 2004
    Originally posted by Polk-a-pops
    Left ear
    Right hand



    Ambidextrous!

    We know. It was a joke! ;)
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited December 2004
    Originally posted by George Grand
    My hearing is so shot it's pathetic.


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  • Mjr7531
    Mjr7531 Posts: 856
    edited December 2004
    AHHHH!!
    The puns are killing me!
    :)
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,776
    edited December 2004
    I can hear better on the phone with my left ear...

    I'm right handed...

    And right footed...

    I'm pretty much blind in both eyes...
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