Odd question! Why do earphones have left and right earbuds?

Question

Why does it matter?

Answer 1

Because music and audio are created in stereo. Different sounds or volumes are coming from the left and right headphones. Whoever recorded and mixed the audio/music intended for you to hear it a certain way. They want your right ear to pick up certain sounds and your left ear to pick up other sounds.

Answer 2

Its because those ear-buds generally provide a stereo sound. It like listening to the music on a small surround sound system. Sounds played from the right come out the right ear bud, and sounds coming from the left will come out the left ear-bud. They also will generally have a slightly different shape so its more comfortable.

Answer 3

Your computers sound card is set up to configure things like "tweeters on the right and maybe Bass on the left,if you tried to listen to your earphone with the configuration wrong,such as having the jacks in wrong when you first run the setup wizard it may not sound very "clean" hope this was clear as mud!

Answer 4

Becasue it ia binaural/stereo audio, in that the sound engineer intended certain sounds/phases/signals to reach each ear.

Answer 5

because you have left and right ears DUH!!

it matters because of the way your ears are shaped