The penny dropped earlier today as I was listening to some of my favorite songs on my wonderful Marshall portable speaker (above, mission control for boj).
Since forever I've had the speaker near my laptop where it's helped pump up the volume when my MacBook Pro's [not all that bad] internal speakers aren't enough.
Anyhoo, I was about to put it on the right side of my computer where I always site it since the hearing in my right ear is much better than that in my left, a fact I was finally able to document objectively using Apple's AirPods Pro hearing test.
I mean, I've known for many, many years — since I was a kid — that if it was noisy for whatever reason when and where I wanted to go to sleep, I needed to put my right side down into the pillow with my left up uncovered.
But my brain suddenly jumped the usual rails and switched: I thought to myself, "If the hearing in my right ear is better, I should put the speaker on the left side of the computer because my right ear will perceive it as plenty loud while my diminished left ear gets the full blast.
Fantastic: much better sound this way, it's like I got an additional speaker and I'm listening in stereo.
Bottom line: you can teach a geriatric near-brain-dead retired anesthesiologist who breathed far too much unscavenged waste gas during his 38 years in the O.R. new tricks.
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