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In Reply to: RE: experience with hearing aids. posted by M3 lover on July 26, 2016 at 17:11:35
I'm not encouraging anyone to wear or not wear their hearing aids....I only write to say that musicians that I talk to have rejected them for the results that they get in wearing them. Like everything else, if they work for you....fine. The hearing aid manufacturers have a long way to go to correct hearing to become the "normal" perception of sound...they only act as a crutch to ease the lose.
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"I encourage all who need hearing aids to were them, but remove them for music listening."
The latter part is what I responded to.
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
After looking at the correction curve shown to me by my audiologist, I asked whether a loud sound (such as a cymbal crash) would be portrayed accurately. She replied that it would depend on the level , in decibels, at which it was supplied. In other words, there is compression baked into the sound correction curve.
The programming tries to correct your hearing by a certain decibel level at the different frequency ranges...say, at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 KHz...and so on. Some models have 8 correction points, some have more. The more correction points available, the better the potential to give you a more natural sound. But these are prescription devices and so the makers are compelled to protect you from excessive sound pressure. So the higher the average decibel level of the sound, the less boost they will give you at various frequency levels.
Say for example you are listening to music at an average sound pressure level of 65db. Suddenly there is a snare drum crack that would normally register at 90 db. Your hearing aids will compress it to something like 80db to protect your ears. So this is sound compression, and I found it occurs at all listening levels to some extent. The higher the sound level, the more compression is used.
I have concluded that listening at moderate sound levels will result in a more natural sound.
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