Uneven soundstage help, please.

Try this at your own risk!

lay on your side in bed and pour a small amount of hydrogen peroxide into your ear. If it starts bubbling like crazy, theres a bunch of wax in there. If it hurts, like you have uncomfortable pressure building up drain the peroxide out right away.  If it is just cold and tickles let it do its thing for awhile, like 15-20 minutes.  You’ll probably get dizzy but thats ok.   Drain the peroxide out of your ear and gently dry out your ear with some tissue. When your in the shower, run warm water into your ear and then tilt your head and drain the water. Do this a few times. Between the peroxide and a gentle stream of warm water in your ear, after a few days you should have cleared out any smaller obstructions. Gently pop your ears, not by closing your nose and blowing, but by yawning and tilting your head / stretching your neck in different ways. Look straight up and try popping your ears. Tilt your head side to side while popping your ears.


My hearing can easily become imbalanced due to wax buildup and I clean my ears all the time. Having clean ears improves your hearing drastically, which improves the sound of your system.

I do the same.....Good idea b_limo....But it is more gentle the way i did it....Peroxyde must not be put in great amount in the  ear....

Instead,

For the night only a drop of a special solution they sold cheap in pharma...Or a drop of peroxyde in many drops of water you push the 9 or 10 drops with a dropper into the ears...

Then at morning it is better to push slowly tepid water with a special seryngue into the ears ...

You go on like that one, 2, or 3 days it is relative to the size of the obstruction... You take the number of days it takes to have a clear water dirty one....For inspecting the water that will flow out of the ear you ,ust use a vase against the ear when pushing the water seryngue into the ears....

The best is to buy a tool kit for cleaning the ear at pharma... The instruction are given ... Or go on youtube and you will have more clearly all the method i just describe....


And then sounds take colors anew....

No more lost in soundstage balance either...

It is with that operation after which i was able to do my acoustical setting of room with only my ears...

😊

A soaked Q-tip is a simple way of peroxiding your ears....and it feels good to absorb the solution and whatever else shows up. ;)  Beats trying to pour it into the side of your head...difficult, even with a mirror.

Go and have your hearing checked anyway.  It's painless...except for finding out that your hearing Isn't what it used to be....🤦‍♂️

Single-side hearing aids aren't that unusual, either.  The tech involved has improved to the point that:
-If you wear both sides like me, you can adjust the balance and slightly coarse eq settings on your cell.
-Part of the set-up of your device(s) can include much finer initial eq at the audiologists' office; later fine-tuning can be done over the phone remotely with some....like mine.
-If you're using ear buds, you can toss them.  Bluetoothed, you can take/make calls or listen to your tunes.  Newer TV's allow you to listen as well at whatever volume you like.
-Bass lines aren't 'physical'...but that's best left to a sub anyway.
-I'm allowed 3 follow-up 'tune-ups' for free.

The last came in handy, but was hilarious for the while before taken.
Everybody appeared to have a slight 'lisp', caused by sibilance.  Even on the TV....

Listening to The Chump lisp was precious, getting to hear him have an apparent 'disability'....so much for Mr. Perfect. ;)

Wonderful. 🤣

I even have the ability to 'focus' their acoustic response; biased forward, 'surround', even towards behind me...which takes care of being snuck up from behind or talked about behind my back.

My mids had lapsed quite badly, which I was delighted to have returned.

The main drawback?

The world is a lot nosier than I'd remembered.
But now...I can 'tune it out' or even shut it off.

Oh, and you can still use your system earphones even with the 'behind the ear' versions....like mine.  The 'in ear' versions are for minor loss generally.  Sound protection earphones become necessary, but should be used by everyone anyway to avoid my issue from the get-go.

"But I've got Perfect Hearing."  Uh-huh...if you're anywhere close to my age (69), doubtful.

Go get checked, and get back to me on that....

Good advice above or go to your md or pa and have them flush it out.   I have done it twice and the relief is great.   

Thank you for the old ears advice. I'll try it.