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i'm 35 and i've got HAs for 20 years now. my hearing loss is quite severe (without aides i don't understand face to face conversation without the other person b
by stefs 10y ago
i'm 35 and i've got HAs for 20 years now. my hearing loss is quite severe (without aides i don't understand face to face conversation without the other person being close to shouting).
modern devices employ another trick: they "compress" frequencies you're hearing less into a spectrum that's not as damaged (this is mostly done if your hearing loss affects the frequencies used for speech).
the side effect is that music i knew from before my hearing loss got so severe sounds strange now, but the aides also got a "music" mode.
- dhuntermn 10y agoI got a new pair of Starkey HAs recently that have a separate processor for music. The music mode turns off compression completely. Even in normal mode, it appears to me that the music processor is being used, because music sounds so much better. I recently had a pair of Altec speakers that I've owned since the early 70s rebuilt, and was listening to Pandora via Chromecast Audio. The song Spill the Wine by War came on, and I could actually hear the strings of the bass guitar vibrate. Before I had these new HAs, bass guitar just sounded like vague, low notes in the background. I was amazed and overjoyed.