Our ears are symmetrical, so why do hearing devices have L and R on them?
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Our ears may be symmetrical, but the world isn’t necessarily so.
If you’re playing a game, and in the game, an explosion happens to your character’s left, you’d want to hear it in your left ear, yeah? It wouldn’t do much good to hear it in your right ear.
These are “channels,” and if audio is recorded on the left channel, it will be played through the left earpiece, and so it’s a good idea to mark the earpieces so you can have them in the correct ear.
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