Timeline for Feeling that speaker's low bass getting stuck in one's ear
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| Jun 24, 2023 at 23:44 | comment | added | OwenM | What speaker model is it? And have you tried other speakers in the same place in your listening room to compare? All speakers just present frequencies. High quality speakers are able to present all frequencies within a given band very accurately compared to source material. A low quality speaker or compromised listening environment (more the latter) can emphasise certain frequencies and this CAN become uncomfortable, but this is usually a feature of a very small untreated room. If your room is ok, perhaps the placement? Acoustics is a complex field, a speaker a fairly simple device. | |
| Jun 24, 2023 at 13:28 | comment | added | Dekkadeci | We still need to consider the room until we eliminate it from consideration - not by changing the speaker and not the room, but by changing the room and not the speaker - i.e. moving the speaker into another room and checking if the same problem occurs. | |
| Jun 24, 2023 at 13:12 | history | edited | Ma Joad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 24, 2023 at 13:03 | comment | added | Ma Joad | @Dekkadeci Other speakers are fine, so I presume that’s the issue with this speaker. | |
| Jun 24, 2023 at 6:21 | comment | added | Dekkadeci | @MaJoad - You say "It causes headache", which leads me to believe this problem is at least part biological (e.g. your head has a resonant frequency? Perhaps that changes with time?) I lost part of my hearing this year with a particularly unfortunate session of picking earwax out of my ears, and it took me weeks to recover. | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 22:36 | comment | added | OwenM | @MaJoad because a large number of auditory experiences like that which you describe are 'time dependent', and reliant on something biological. It is, as you say, a subjective experience and I don't think too many will be able to identify with this feeling exactly. Dekkadeci's question is valid as it may point toward something unusual, or something simple, such as excessive wax buildup, or eustachian tube blockage. Not that we can diagnose that here, but the phenomena you describe is not familiar to me even having spent a lifetime dealing manly in sub-bass frequencies :) | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 20:17 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 23, 2023 at 18:46 | answer | added | Edward | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 16:39 | answer | added | Laurence | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 14:32 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 23, 2023 at 14:19 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | Wait what kind of speaker? Also have you tried the same speaker in a different room? Seems like room resonance to me | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 14:13 | comment | added | PiedPiper | I’m voting to close this question because questions about audio gear are off-topic music.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 14:11 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2023 at 14:10 | comment | added | Tim | You ask about one speaker. Have you only the one? Is it the bass woofer? Could you swap over for the other of a pair? What happens when you listen with cans: is it the same channel that's bass-heavy? We need more info! | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 14:07 | history | edited | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2023 at 14:04 | comment | added | Tetsujin | I'm afraid it doesn't belong on Sound Design either. We don't cover consumer audio. One way to test whether it's the speaker or the amp is to change the ratio of how much 'work' each is doing. Send a high signal from the player, turn the amp down - vs send a low signal from the player, with the amp turned up to compensate. That would eliminate any potential 'loudness' control the amp is injecting to compensate for low volume. At low volumes the bass will almost vanish in relation to the higher frequencies, so consumer gear sometimes ramps the bass to compensate. | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 13:49 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | Well, it could be biological. Meanwhile, I'm wondering about the acoustics of the space in which the speaker is. There are a lot of components here: The device outputting the audio, the speaker itself, the space in which the sound is being produced, and finally your own ear. I'm wondering whether the room has a resonant frequency that's involved. If you can, try the speaker in a different space. Meanwhile, I'm afraid this is more an audio gear issue and isn't covered here; it might be good on Sound Design | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 12:53 | comment | added | Ma Joad | @Dekkadeci Of course it does not depend on the time. Why do you think it could be time-dependent? | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 12:44 | comment | added | Dekkadeci | Does this ability to make your head resonate change between days? | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 12:16 | history | asked | Ma Joad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |