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In Reply to: RE: Hearing aides posted by El Monte on August 12, 2014 at 20:44:52
Assuming your hearing loss was gradual due to exposure and not medical, your brain spent most of your early life learning how to process sound. As your hearing decays - the brain adapted to that gradually as well. With hearing aids the jump is stark, and "unnatural". When I professionally discuss this with the modern DSP based hearing aid manufacturers, I have recommended the "adjustments" be ramped up gradually over a month or two.
One thing that will help the accommodation of your brain to the hearing aids is to put then in first thing in the morning.
Good luck!
Three most important things in Audio reproduction: Keep the noise levels low, the power high and the room diffuse.
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If I were to eventually need a hearing aid, knowing how digitization just mangles the mere perception of sound (via normal hearing), I'd avoid digitized (DSP) products like the plague..........
I seem to embrace them with a passion...Weird hoobby we are in, isn't it.
Three most important things in Audio reproduction: Keep the noise levels low, the power high and the room diffuse.
Edits: 08/15/14 08/15/14 08/15/14
Response by BigguyinATL:-
> > > "Hearing aides - I seem to embrace them with a passion..." < < <
And from the article by David McClain in Positive Feedback Online :-
> > > "I hate hearing aids, and so does everyone else who has ever used them. But they are better than nothing." < < <
Two extreme outlooks here- so, there is obviously many, many shades of people's experiences in between !!
Of course most people who experience improvements in their hearing after having a deficiency would "embrace" hearing aids. As they SO concern 'sound' there should be far more reports from people who use them on audio chat forums.
Thank you 13DoW for giving the link to that excellent PFO article. I must somehow have missed it back last year.
Regards,
May Belt,
Manufacturer.
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