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My last hearing test indicated that my hearing was down to about 8k. I come upon a product that increases the upper frequency noticeably, its called Earglasses and it is a cup that slips behind your ear. its website is earglasses.com. I got mine at Amazom for $9.95.
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58 years old, suffering from Tinnitus all my life, and many loud gigs doing sound, but I'm still good to 16KHz.
I was having similar issues but in my case the solution was liquid shower soap. Lather up your ears and let the shower head rinse it out.
For some reason I generate a lot of ear was and needed to have my doctor clean it out regularly.
Best,
Erik
If you're a musician and wear earplugs, that can happen. I know a jazz trumpet player who has to clean out his ears regularly because of the earplugs. On the other hand, I put in earplugs (wadded up tissue) every night just to attenuate the random noise.
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...simply cup your hands behind your ears when listening.
Pretty much the same effect.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Just this morning I took a pre-scheduled Tone Audiometry test at Cosco. To my surprise all frequencies up to 8k Hz were in normal range(15-30dB) -that is high as they test. After playing in a band early on and being employed at MIA for 13 years i was elated.The test is free with membership!
Regards,
Duaney in Clearwater
IIRC something like that was discussed on vinyl a few years back. Those were made of leather. The possibility of differing sonic characteristics of varying types of leather, patent vs. rough leather etc. was thrown around. Until reading this thread and looking up earglasses I thought nothing had come of it. Apparently someone ran with the idea.
Next: ear trumpets. Clear plastic? Leather? Cryoed carbon fiber?
Done laughing. Actually they probably do make a difference. If there are doubts try cupping your hands behind your ears while listening. There is a difference.
And they apparently worked well enough, if you didn't mind looking like an idiot.
What?!?
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Many years ago Sam Tellig reported in Stereophile on leather "cup" devices to be placed behind the ears. It was not a review per say, but a positive report about his experience trying them.
Interestingly I don't recall he ever mentioned them again, so apparently not much of a worthwhile benefit.
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I have hearing aids in both ears with my left ear supposedly the worst. I found I was not enjoying my music that much with the hearing aids. One day I took my left hearing aid out while listening to music and I was hearing a more balanced sound and seemed to be hearing all the notes that I was missing when wearing the hearing aid.
With both aids in the balance when listening to music always seems to be toward the right. So I now listen to music happily with the left one out. Though my wife makes me put it back in When I say "What?" when she's talking to me.
Consider some of the male recording engineers who are doing great work in their 60's (and beyond) who are almost certain to have age-related male high-frequency hearing loss. It just might be that these tests really don't mean that much. I've assisted for Steve Addabbo and Steve Berkowitz, and they both have very "fast" ears, instantly picking up tiny imbalances in the high frequencies buried deep in the mix. Their recent work bears this out: Bob Dylan Self Portraits vols 10 and 12, the Beatles Mono LP set, Johnny Cash "Out Among the Stars" are all pretty great. Jamie Howarth has put out, I believe, the best recordings of anyone, thanks to the Plangent process he helped develop, which clears up minute timing errors to bring back very low level detail on any recordings tracked or mixed to tape. The Chesky brothers are still going strong, and their work is terrific. Rupert Neve is still designing and making great sounding gear at age 90.
This is an area I hope we see research on. I suspect our brains compensate for high-frequency hearing loss when we listen to music, and maybe not when we're listening to sine waves on headphones.
If you feel you are missing something when listening to music, and some product makes listening to music more involving, then use it. I've tried applying EQ to correct my measured hearing loss (-10 dB at 10kHz) and it was awful. There is much to learn here.
WW
"A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922
Hearing tests that rely upon discrete tones at reducing amplitude will tell you very little about your normal hearing accuity. Unless , of course, your listening is restricted to sinewaves.The human brain is very clever and makes astonishing adjustments for reasonable deviations.
My own hearing was damaged in my right ear by a trauma experienced during my mid-twenties. I too can hear little over 8K in that ear given the standard test. My left ear measures reasonably well in comparison ( and taking account of presbycusis). For the first months after the damage I was very aware of a dullness in my right ear. Yet, by and large, years later I cannot hear any difference between them given normal real life audio stimulii including listening to music. Were you aware of any difference between your two ears before the test? Exactly.
If the aim of high fidelity sound reproduction is to reproduce through an artifical medium what you hear in real life then unless you are prepared to wear Earglasses all of the time what you will hear when putting them on will not resemble what you hear normally. If they boost sound over a certain frequency how do they manage to do it as a precise mirror image of your hearing loss irrespective of the distortion caused by them being an artificial extension to your pinnae (which are a major and individually unique part of our aural location processing)?
Edits: 09/30/16
Interesting product. Do you feel it significantly enhances your listening experience with your system? Are they comfortable to wear? Does it lead to listening fatigue? Just would like to to share a bit more of your experience with the product. thanks.
Before I found these, I cupped my hands behind my ears to enhance the sound, they are light and I don't feel them after a while, they do not cause fatigue. Of course for 10 bucks you have nothing to loose.
Thank you. Much appreciated.
Yep. Been done before.
Talk of the test. It only finds the lowest level with a pure sine wave. As a test it is OK. But really does not show anything about the actual ability to hear music. Which is a complex wave with features.
The Human brain is really great at finding patterns.
There are NO easy to recognize patterns in a pure sinewave.
So the 'test' is really a killer. The worst possible way to try to hear anything.
I wonder if they used a musical phrase one liked.. And played it as softly as possible. I bet one could hear it better than a damn sinewave!
Another severe problem for the sinewave test is for folks with tinnitus..
If you have tinnitus, and ever took a hearing test.. You KNOW exactly what I am writing about. (which is the sinewave, and which the tinnitus???)
So I say hearing tests SUCK at letting you actually know how well you can hear music as an audiophile
Welll Yess there are Always problems with any kind of testings.
But Yours reads like Your Audiologists' tests revealed a fairly heavy Hearing loss.
Which you don't like.
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