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I would say that this is probably related to the human emphasis on horizontal differentiation.

Much of what we see is influenced by our evolutionary skills of pattern recognition.

If you take a photograph of your mother and reverse/flip it in the horizontal axis it can be quite surprising how unfamiliar it can look.

Take a stereo recording, any stereo recording and listen for 1 hour to the same short piece of music. Then flip the L/R channels and listen again. In most cases, this will be perceived as an instant catastrophic reduction of sound quality.

For further interest, take the same recording, now flipped in L/R and listen for a further 1 hour, until you become used to the sound and then flip it back again. Another catastrophic reduction in sound quality.

It is a great trick to play in the studio after 3 days of recording & mixing.

Andy

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