Cheapest upgrade going - yet paradoxical none do it!

Cupping or funnelling sound will alter your hearing away from the physiological norm. It will capture some sound wavelengths more efficiently, typically those in the higher speech register hence it can be useful if you are a bit mutt and jeff in conversation.

Not sure that is necessarily better. It will be different. However boosting the hearing of one particular part of the frequency range is known in some circles as distortion or colouration surely?

Bruce

You've only got yourself stopping you from practicing it on your hi-fi listening. Maybe you can give it a try in the long term and then report to us why no one does it.

If humans were intended to hear with cupped ears we would have been born with them & look something akin to a bat.

Ok I get it! Three good responses!

Perhaps not a good response but I recall an enlarged synthetic ears device being available through Stereophile many years ago. If I recall correctly, they were a audio show promo give-away. Again, if memory serves, Sam Tellig did a tongue-in-cheek review. And yes, they did work.

Mike-B posted:

If humans were intended to hear with cupped ears we would have been born with them & look something akin to a bat.

We can put them on the request list for next time the universe starts, along with the wings!  

I like the idea of wings... perhaps given another million years of Darwinian evolution we might grow them?

Would be interesting to work out the ear size required to receive bass fundamentals .............. the wings might be a bit surplus to requirements

That Red Bull stuff (other beverages are available) doesn't seem to work at all.

I'm sure someone on the forum can try knocking up a pair of these and see whether it improves matters:

As for these boys was difficult cupping their hears they developed the muscle.