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TV background music overpowers the speaker. Why do they do this?
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Oct 30, 2020 | Replies (30)Comment receiving replies
I'll be interested to hear more about those speakers you ordered. What are they called? Where did you get them? One of the best ways to make home TV accessible is to install a hearing loop in the TV room. It sends sound from the TV directly to a person's hearing aids IF those hearing aids have telecoils. Loop systems are amazing. Many performing arts centers have installed hearing loops. All you do is push the button on your telecoil equipped hearing aids and the sound comes directly to you. It's like having binoculars for your ears! In 2018 the national HLAA convention was held in MInneapolis. We attended a musical at the Guthrie Theater. They had installed a hearing loop in the theater. It was incredible. It is so frustrating that this communication access accommodation isn't standard. Other systems work too, including FM and Infrared, but it requires picking up a receiver and using either a headset or personal connector. Much easier to just push a button on a hearing aid!
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Ms. Julie -- THANKS a lot for posting. I'm trying to figure out a way to help an old friend hear audiobooks. He does have a hearing aid. I did give him an Amazon Echo about 2-3 years ago. However since he's so ill he doesn't use his computer anymore and when he was OK he resisted audiobooks I offered to him. (I intended to pay for his books and an Audible.com subscription if necessary.) But he's sort of on the elderly side and never would even TRY to use audiobooks.. saying stuff like "when we used to go on driving trips we did listen to books on tape..." And that he doesn't travel anywhere now. I don't want to give up -- plus NOW w. the virus problem I cannot go into his home to set up anything for him. I'm investigating putting the audiobooks on an MP3 player - but haven't a clue how that would work.
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I'm a natural-born sceptic, so I am waiting to report until we have tried the speakers. The hearing loop idea is a great one, except I think it will be helpful to me to have the discriminating speakers too, and I am not "yet" ready for aids according to my audiologist, whom I trust. I'm looking forward to trying the speaker, as the high volume of commercials when the TV is turned up is eventually going to make me throw something at it and break it!
Sue