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Human ears experience position in a number of ways, of which sound energy is only one.
And , sorry to say, panning is not the most important one in many cases.
Filtering by the pinnea and inter-aural time differences give us the majority of spatial cues.
I once heared an audio file that proved this very directly.
There is this psychoacoustic effect where your brain persistently thinks a sound is located at the side where is has first arrived.
This soundfile had a short burst of a sound on one channel.
While the burst was taking place the same sound started on the other channel.
This other sound, however, continued on after the first stopped.
What i (and i guess most people) heared was a continuous sound comming from the side that the short burst had played from.
The illusion would only dissapear after a few seconds and i could hear the sound pan to the other (correct) side.
weird stuff.
What i want to say is that there is a lot more to sound localization than pan potting.
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