Dang it, I'm Deaf....

Also, lose that much hearing and soundstage is gone forever. I had no idea how important bass was to soundstage! 

Also watch out for ototoxic drugs: aspirin, ibuprofen, antibiotics etc. In regular medium-high doses, they can be ear killers.

I sit with my left ear facing the speakers and able to enjoy full stereo sound and hear both channels evenly

I'm doing the same but I have now placed the loudspeakers closer together and that is working very well. Thanks for your input.

i will add you to my prayer list.

Thanks Jim, I'm getting over the disappointment and working to get the best solution now. My neighbor with covid needs a prayer more than I do, if you have room on your list. 

Try Homeopathy.

Thanks for the input but the cochlear surgery pretty much guaranties recovery of hearing is not possible.  

Having a cochlear implant myself, I find using full-size headphones make all the difference in  the world - especially having tuned the hearing by using Sonarwork's Sound ID app.

Russ—so sorry to read this. But don't lose hope. As the miraculous homeopathic cure sandthemall describes shows, strange things can happen.

Three years ago, I was flying home from Prague on a plane with a shrieking infant right behind me. But those hours of torture were only the beginning. Thee days after getting home, both my wife and I came down with high fevers and ear aches; we guessed that baby had been sick and was shrieking in pain. Anyway, two days after that, I woke up with almost complete deafness in my left ear. I couldn't hear my fingers rubbing the outer ear, couldn't hear fingers snapping, a very disorienting sense of space, etc. My doctor prescribed oral prednisone, but sent me to an audiologist. He did a test with headphones that diagnosed a profound loss in that ear; he then did the test direct to the bone, which indicated the same loss. He told me this meant the damage was to the auditory nerves, and that it was not due to a blockage in the ear canal that felt like the cause. He called the condition "sudden idiopathic hearing loss" and explained that "idiopathic" meant no one knew what caused it—and that, accordingly, no one knew how to cure it. He suggested injections of prednisone into the eardrum (no, thanks!), or an expensive experimental treatment called a hyperbaric oxygen chamber that insurance would not pay for and that carried a risk of explosive immolation (again: no thanks!). In any case, he assured me that my hearing wasn't coming back.

But I didn't believe him. For one thing, I had a sensation of stuffiness in that ear that seemed to indicate a blockage which might clear. And, in fact, within a couple of weeks, I did occasionally swallow deeply enough to briefly clear the ear canal (or whatever it was), restoring partial hearing for a few moments. And then...gradually...I got almost all of my hearing back. Now, three years later, my left ear measures almost as well as my right; I'm back to being able to hear water dripping from three rooms away.

The lesson, I guess, is not to lose hope, and not to assume medical science has all the answers. If the pandemic has taught us anything, it should be that. Human physiology is astoundingly, confoundingly complicated and—to paraphrase the doctor from the old TV show "Northern Exposure"—the human body is a miraculous self-righting machine. Hang in there, and good luck!

@sandthemall,

"He explained that he would not treat my ear.  He would treat my body...get it back in balance...and the body would heal itself."

3 years ago over Christmas I began to get dizzy spells and felt like throwing up at the same time. I couldn't stand up at times.

As much as I'm loathe to seek professional help I had to. Unfortunately my doctor diagnosed Menieres disease and gave me a whole stack of tablets.

However, not happy with his diagnosis that this could be for life I thought I'd try something different.

We always had an old infra red lamp lying around which my dad used for his lower back, and I thought I'd try it on my ears for short periods whilst I was reading.

Within just days there were signs of improvement. After 2 weeks I couldn't feel any more improvement or any need to use it again.

Since then my hearing has been better than it's ever been.

For any audiophile it's a tragedy to not have good hearing.

I can't endorse homeopathy, I have no experience of it, but I do agree with your brother that the body does need to be in balance.

Good advice, glad it worked.