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Hearing the TV with hearing aids
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Jun 6 11:47am | Replies (44)Comment receiving replies
my audiologist is VA , I assume qualified?? The problem as I see it is it takes time to zero in on fine tuning , easier for audiologist to use software program which works but may not be accurate enough. when HA system compresses & amplifies specific frequency , there is a timing element that needs to be addressed. How long does the compress last. not being able to fit the specific /right frequency compression time can cause distortion. from what little i know , you would need to carefully check small chunks of frequencies where there is compression to get the timing just right. audiologist dont do it. too time consuming??? so sounds like this is something that you could do for yourself. tweaking until it the frequency sounds better. I think the genie program might facilitate this. but where do you find info a layman can use????
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These are very interesting questions to me. I too have a feeling that what my audiologist does is too quick, too prescribed and too pre-programmed to allow me to hear without distortion - especially music! I once heard a story about a musician and music teacher who was not able to listen to music on MP3s, because he could hear “only the notes, not the spaces between the notes” because of the compression of the sound in the MP3 format.
I think some of our technology does not serve us well, because of the general demand to save time and space rather than to take care to preserve quality and nuance. It seems that may be what is being done with hearing aid technology. It very broadly serves the purpose of allowing us to hear speech fairly well in optimum circumstances, but it doesn’t seem to serve to help everyone to hear the world and its sounds as well as they can within their own particular limitations.