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Could you guys please post your comments a little louder. ?? I'm having trouble hearing them.![]()
EVERYONE SPEAK UP SO THE GENTLEMAN CAN HEAR YOU PLEASE!
Could you guys please post your comments a little louder. ?? I'm having trouble hearing them.![]()
Are you talking about listening via speakers using your HAs, or streamimg audio into them? I'm guessing the former....'ve said this before but when I first got my hearing aids one of the first things I did was sit down and listen to Dark Side of the Moon. My hearing aids gave me better sound than any Bose speaker I ever heard....
That works for me, too. Even just bending my ear in a bit can help. You're focusing the sound, not unlike an ear trumpet. Possibly also some HF boost from your hand. Put some tin foil on your hand and it'll be even brighter!SweetMK said:I can cup my hand over my ear, and hear the radio 3X better, and more clear sounding
Are you talking about listening via speakers using your HAs, or streamimg audio into them? I'm guessing the former.
I've had basic Costco HAs (Kirkland/Sivantos) for a few years now and they're pretty good, although the "Listening to Music" setting is only "sort of OK." This is for listening via speakers. (I'm mostly into classical, but that prob. doesn't matter too much.)
From what I've read, most newer HA's (2018+) have pretty good "Music" settings, which basically remove most of the DSP (digital signal processing) that is useful for conversation etc., but detrimental to music. But it also depends on the audiologist knowing what to adjust, and adusting for music reproduction is not something that many audiologists know about.
Mine are still good enough that I'm going to wait a year or so before thinking about replacing them, and I now know enough about the technology to help the audiologist set up the Music program. Phonak is one of the better brands, esp. for music reproduction. One young woman out here who has serious hearing loss - a sound mixer in her 30's - started with Phonak but ended up using Oticon, which she felt were better. But that's a very specialized application and I think she had a very good audiologist.
I, too was diagnosed with "the notch", long before I ever needed HAs. When I told the audiologist I had worked as a rec. engineer, they assumed that was the cause, but I did mostly classical and only part-time. Probably it was from doing a lot of .22 shooting when I was in my teens, initially on an indoor range. Anyway, now I have HF loss in both ears and reduced sensitivity in the right ear, diagnosed as "sensio-neural hearing loss", which seems to be techno-speak for "we don't know the cause."
Oddly, when I listen over my Grado headphones (GW100 wireless, which are superb), I am barely aware of the loss, aside from a little less level on the right.
That works for me, too. Even just bending my ear in a bit can help. You're focusing the sound, not unlike an ear trumpet. Possibly also some HF boost from your hand. Put some tin foil on your hand and it'll be even brighter!
Are you talking about listening via speakers using your HAs, or streamimg audio into them?
That's surprising, but Phonak are supposed to be very good. I would have thought bass response would be weak (unless you have full ear molds) and level a bit restricted, as well as poor battery life. But if it works, HURRAH!Streaming audio through them.
If I listen to my stereo through my headphones it levels everything out and it just sounds flat
That's surprising, but Phonak are supposed to be very good. I would have thought bass response would be weak (unless you have full ear molds) and level a bit restricted, as well as poor battery life. But if it works, HURRAH!![]()
Now that's a bit odd...I said that wrong. If I'm wearing my Phonaks and I turn on my Kenwood component system it sounds great. It's when I try to listen to music through my Bose SoundLink while I'm wearing my Phonaks that I have a problem. I also have a problem with the Bluetooth on my phone not being able to decide which device to pair with...
"I'M SORRY DAVE. I CAN'T FIX THAT"I don't listen to music through my hearing aids very often because invariably as soon as I do my wife wants to start a conversation and gets pissed off at me.
I went for a free audiology exam at Costco, and they found a rather large lump of wax in my left ear. They offered to remove it (for a fee) and then re-do the hearing exam (for an additional fee of course).A few months ago I was trying to remove some wax with a q tip and ended up jamming it into my ear.
The GP tried removing it with a hand held squirt bottle. It didn’t work.
Then I found an audiologist that would remove it prior to the ear exam. I signed up for the hearing test and sails pitch for hearing aids to get the wax out. She had a device that amounted to an electric psquirt bottle which produced a higher pressure pump.
She got the wax out and my hearing improved 100% immediately.
Nevertheless, she tried to sell me hearing aids. For $5000!
I think I’ll look around.
Other than Costco, where would you look for reasonable priced hearing aids?
Bringing in outside sound is probably not the problem, aside from unwnted ambient noise if there is any.Listening to music when streaming thru the Phonak hearing aids sounds tinny to me. Reason being that the HAs are still bringing in outside sound as well. I have not tried listening with hearing aids in and using headphones...