Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net One day, a musician patient presented to my clinic with a history of hearing the same pitch that sounded significantly differently between the ears. An A# sound in one ear sounded a half-tone lower in the other. This resulted in music sounding out-of-tune. This phenomenon is known as diplacusis and there are several different flavors. Diplacusis binauralis occurs when you hear the same sound differently in each ear. This conditio…
