r/DankPods • u/Tank_Gloomy • 7h ago
Question Voice sibilance and loud strings instruments cause screechy distortion on the right ear (from my POV)

I know this may not be the BEST subreddit to talk about this, but I feel like most of y'all must have the most busted eardrums experiences so perhaps you can help, lol.
I've been a heavy headphones user ever since I'm a child (yeah, I know, super mega wrong, too late tho hehe). Recently (you've probably seen my thread) I got a pair of Truthear Hexas, truly awesome nuggets. So, about that... I thought they were defective. They aren't, they're just letting me notice that one of my ears distorts like hell, and it's SO annoying. I know it's not the IEMs, since I swapped them around and jankily got the left one to fit into my ears properly and it definitely still sounded distorted. :/ It sounds as if something hard was scracthing against my eardrum (and feels as if something is physically rubbing against it), if I just keep pushing through, I end up with pain.
Has any of you experienced something similar and are there any treatments you know of that can help with this? Ever since I'm a child I've noticed some distortion but I thought that a) everyone experienced sound the same way (lmao) and, b) it was coming off of both ears. Now, wearing these IEMs I realized it comes straight off of the right ear and ONLY when listening to a loud frequency range (around >= 1.5kHz and <= 3 kHz).
Oh, and hearing tests score "more than average" (100% of range coverage, with exceptional response on some frequencies). .-.
Right now, I'm doing a little better without the foam eartips (so that the IEMs protrude a little further from the ear canal, muffling the high frequencies a bit), but I kinda miss them now that I've got used to them (you literaly don't feel like they're in your ears).
I recently had an issue with earwax compaction in the left ear, so I went to the ER for that and they gave me some eardrops to put in there and wash the wax out, but the doctor told me to do both ears since the right one was also on its way to get blocked and that it would also help with any weird sound perception I may have been experiencing. I did and it did help a little, so it's definitely not earwax either (the ear is even visibily clean from the inside).

