How can most music that’s playing from headphones have separate sounds for each ear?
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If you look at the headphone plug it will have little black lines around it… Those lines separate the signal into three pieces… there is a tip… then a ring… then the base of the plug or sheild. One ear gets its audio feed from the tip… the other is from the ring… and finally the shield is a neutral that helps reduce noise.
If the original sound is recorded in mono it will send the same signal over both ear buds.
If somehow you had a mono set of earphones (no ring) and the signal was in stereo… you would recieve the left side audio only over both earbuds.
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