[jorvi]

I have the same. I’m really bad at following a group conversation if we’re in a bar or something. However, if we ordered some take-out afterwards I can usually hear the scooter coming in from 1-2 streets away (through closed windows), I know 5 minutes beforehand if the DHL/mailman is coming because I can hear his beep gun one street over, etc.

It can actually get fairly annoying because if for example I’m crashing at someone’s place and the inactive speakers have a very faint hum/buzz, I can pick that up but the person I’d tell it to thinks I’m mad and am imagining things.

I also echo the parent post in that I often hear people’s EQ being bad and it can be a mild effort to not be an elitist snob and correct it for them / tell them its wrong. Hell, often if they allow me to either EQ it to neutral or V-shaped they still dislike it to their own settings (which is cool and at that point I just let it be).