I like to listen to music with headphones while lying down. Some songs sound “wrong”, and I understand that is because the original recording was made for an upright head.
So if an instrument or voice was supposed to sound like it was in front of you, now it sounds like it’s coming from someone crawling across my ceiling.
It’s an insignificant and stupid problem so I don’t know what to search for lmao
Yes, the timing and balance does not change whether the source is directly in front of, behind, above or below you, but people still tell these apart somehow. I think it’s the frequency response of sound from different directions reflecting off earlobes.