Disgusting...
Something revolting came out of my right ear last night. A piece of dirty wax the size of a bee. At least I hope it was wax...
Not something that's happened before, nor something that immediately wanted to post on the Internet, but...
For a while now I've noticed that the right channel of my Hifi usually seems quieter, with the effect that the stereo image was annoyingly shifted towards the left speaker. This issue was easily corrected via the p90sa's preamp's dual mono volume pots, or via the dual mono mixer on the control panel of the TFS' sound card (76 on left Chanel and 84 on the right - so about a 10% lift required).
I'd put the problem down to some room acoustics or the fact that there's a sofa against one of the side walls of my listening room and not the other.
There was something more though - the Chanel imbalance wasn't always consistent, it was worse on some albums than others, and sometimes I thought I perceived some spatial instability on vocals during Individual tracks. It didn't bother me much often, but was occasionally slightly distracting.
Well well well, having lost the half an ounce of ear wax, all the above issues seem to have been resolved. The system doesn't sound significantly different overall, but the channels are now balanced and stable. I assume that the wax in the right ear was blocking the sound - perhaps some frequencies more than others (perhaps rob or si could carry out some tests on the disgusting specimen to discern which frequencies were most affected ;-) ).
May be we should have a thread on the best wax removal treatments...
Not something that's happened before, nor something that immediately wanted to post on the Internet, but...
For a while now I've noticed that the right channel of my Hifi usually seems quieter, with the effect that the stereo image was annoyingly shifted towards the left speaker. This issue was easily corrected via the p90sa's preamp's dual mono volume pots, or via the dual mono mixer on the control panel of the TFS' sound card (76 on left Chanel and 84 on the right - so about a 10% lift required).
I'd put the problem down to some room acoustics or the fact that there's a sofa against one of the side walls of my listening room and not the other.
There was something more though - the Chanel imbalance wasn't always consistent, it was worse on some albums than others, and sometimes I thought I perceived some spatial instability on vocals during Individual tracks. It didn't bother me much often, but was occasionally slightly distracting.
Well well well, having lost the half an ounce of ear wax, all the above issues seem to have been resolved. The system doesn't sound significantly different overall, but the channels are now balanced and stable. I assume that the wax in the right ear was blocking the sound - perhaps some frequencies more than others (perhaps rob or si could carry out some tests on the disgusting specimen to discern which frequencies were most affected ;-) ).
May be we should have a thread on the best wax removal treatments...
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I apologise for the many spelling/syntax mistakes in my original posting. I take personal responsibility for some of them, but as I usually post from my iPhone my posts can fall victim to predictive text errors...
BTW I will try and get some photos of the offending lump of wax. It's currently sitting on my bedside table like an exhibit in some Victoriam museum of curiosities.
What she told me was to spray (with not too powerful a jet) warm water in to each ear for a minute or so, and then shake out the water. Earwax is heat activated (like any wax) and also water soluble, so washing the warm water around in there for a minute gets it all out. Do this a couple of times a month and I would have perfectly clear ears she told me.
I went back in a month at the resolution of the other issue, and I asked the locum doctor who was there about ears and got the same advice. He then checked my lugholes and proclaimed my ears the cleanest he had ever seen - I had been doing the ear-wash thing twice a week just to get them cleared out.
The only drawback is shaking my head like a wet Labrador in order to get the water out, but it was good advice which worked for me.
Reminds me of when I was on a residential course related to my work. At the beginning of the week my ears were a bit claggy but usually cleared by 10 O Clock. By Wednesday this was not so and I couldn't hear the lecturer so off i was despatched to the local health centre were I signed in. As I expected a lenghty wait with not being a regulat there my impatience finally got the better of me after over a 2 hour wait. Upon enquiring at reception if my appontment with the Doctor for the ear synging was still valid i was informed the Doctor was about to go home for the day and seeing as they had been calling my name they had assumed I had left the building --------
When the good Doctor did get around to inserting the syringe he passed the comment that he had never seen so much wax emerge from a syringing. There was enough to fill a tin of Johnsons, well the most I've ever seen on my subsequent syringing treatemnts.
Hope you weren't having your tea...
How I was able to hear anything at all is remarkable.
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You dirty old bastard.