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In Reply to: RE: Assistive listening systems posted by Todd A. on February 06, 2017 at 10:17:27
I'll make two recommendations:One, and most obvious, is, why in the world are you trying to do this yourself?! You admittedly have no experience in this area. There are professional sound contractors everywhere who have at least a modicum of familiarity with this. Seek them out and get their recommendations. Heck, maybe even write up a list of requirements and get quotes, or, better yet, find one who will help you write the requirements for a nominal fee.
Two, I was amazed by a system I saw in Montreux last summer (2016). There were a couple of DJs doing a dance gig in the open-air pavilion along the quai, and several hundred people wearing wireless headphones listening to the music! Ya oughta look into this sort of thing. Connectivity to hearing aids would be cool, too, but I suspect that most wearers don't have such connectivity available at their end.
Another observation... If there are parishioners with severe hearing loss and don't have hearing aids, maybe God will enlighten them to get them. ;)
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Edits: 02/07/17Follow Ups:
For every good contractor doing this type of work there are at least two that are bad to really bad. It aint that hard if you have an electronics background. You could do it.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
Edits: 02/10/17
"One, and most obvious, is, why in the world are you trying to do this yourself?! There are professional sound contractors everywhere who have at least a modicum of familiarity with this."
You may well be right. I do have a broad technical background, but that doesn't necessarily qualify me to tackle this, since my experience as a technician is in different areas. As I said, this is a small group. I was admittedly trying to save them some money, but clearly, doing it wrong isn't the way to achieve that. What I may end up doing is perhaps just the leg work...do the necessary research to allow us to make an intelligent decision, narrow down the field of contractors, etc.
"Connectivity to hearing aids would be cool, too, but I suspect that most wearers don't have such connectivity available at their end."
Actually, this I do know. My wife's hearing aids have this feature, and I think that most behind-the-ear hearing aids do have a T-coil these days. It's actually a very cool feature, but then it should be for what these things cost. There are also individual headsets that can connect to a loop system in the matter you describe, so a couple of those would be indicated. I don't think our needs would exceed that.
As a former board certified hearing instrument specialist I can say that other than aids with a telecoil and half of those are not set right by the provider. Aid users dont know much or how to change modes.
I'm an electronics guy and a ham and it is harder to find the best equipment and price than put it in and make it work. Hardly any published pricing. Just researching will take a shitload of time, make a form letter with basic requirements which demands pricing to receive a reply to save time. A lot of these websites want you to request quotes etc.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
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