Okay guys, this has been on my mind for very long time and I can't seem to find an explanation for this. I know that cupping your hand around your ear can help to amplify sounds and boost frequencies between 1 kHz and 4 kHz but I am not talking about that. If I touch my tragus with my one finger for example, everything suddenly sounds so much brighter.

Let's say I am hearing crickets and the sound is very far and faint. If I touch my tragus, the sound will be near and very clear. If I am cooking or hearing a machine sound, or white noise etc... just by touching my tragus everything will sound so rich and shiny. When I listen to music and I touch my tragus I hear the Hi-Hats and cymbals much better, even the snares will sound richer. It is like I hear more the clarity and the sizzle of the music, there's a lot of details in music that I couldn't hear without touching my tragus!

It is like I have low-pass filter in my ears that I can only cancel with touching my tragus. Cupping my ears with my hands will not let me hear the high frequencies I hear with touching my tragus.

I do have mild hearing loss between 6khz and 8khz and moderate hearing loss above 8khz and tinnitus. If I touch my tragus I would hear just like if I don't have any hearing loss in high frequencies at all. I tried playing a sine-wave at 6khz on at 5% volume on my computer speakers, I could barely hear it (very very faint) I touched my tragus and the magic happens, the 6 kHz sounded so freaking loud suddenly, but when I "untouch" my tragus, I hear the 6 kHz very faint, so if I touch and release I will hear (Beep, Beep, Beep...)

I figure out that with touching my tragus I amplify these high frequencies, and I would hear them just like if I didn't have any hearing loss at all in that range. I would be interested to know if somebody here is experiencing the same?

Is there anybody who has an explanation for this? Now I listen to all the music with fingers on tragus LOL!

Does anybody has an explanation for this ?

 

It's highly probable that this is just the frequency which is reflected by the other fingers. With two pencils this doesn't work anymore.
When you're cupping your ears with your hands some other freqs are reflected too and so the 6kHz aren't that obvious anymore.

 

Thanks for the reply! It makes sense what you say, it is actually what I was thinking before, but I actually can hear way much much better when I touch my Tragus and it is not just an amplification of some frequencies, but everything sounds crisp and rich. if I am outside and I do this for example I hear sounds that are not audible for me without touching my ears. It is just crazy how diff I can hear with and without touching my Tragus.

 

Everyone around me hears what happens when someone pulls my finger...

 

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