Hearing affecting soundstage


It's kind of suck that your hearing may be the biggest limitting factor to the percieved soundstage.

The high frequency response of my left ear is a lot better than that of my right ear, therefore the left soundstage is quite wider than the right side. This is most apparent with sound from the background of the soundstage such as a orchestra playing in the background.

Before, I always wondered why most of my CD's has mixing mainly on the left side until I found out about the flaw in my hearing.

Does anyone have the same problem?
andy2

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The problem I have is not that the soundstage shifted one way or another. The center mix is still there. Vocal is still right at the center.

But with recordings that have a diffused background sound or a background orchestra, the back soundstage is partly truncated on the right side due to HF roll-off of my right ear. A good example would be Diana Krall "I've Got You Under My Skin" on When I look into your eyes CD. On this song, the left soundstage extends all the way past the left speaker on the opening. When I did an experiment by switching left-right channel cables so that the left-right soundstage now also switched, the right soundstage (which was left originally) is truncated to somewhere halfway between center and right speaker.

I don't think the balance control will help me. I may have to reduced the treble response of the left speaker by putting a series resistor on the tweeter.