I find headphones to be very isolating, and don’t like them at all. If you want music listening yo be a social event, hearing aids is the only way to go. they might help in the car too.
btw, the Lyric is very expensive, but they are still analogue!
Recommendations for the best headphones with equalization after severe acoustic injury
I recently experienced an Acute and severe hearing loss between 1-4khz after a bike tire exploded in my face. My wonderful system is now rendered unpleasant (Apogee Divas with DAX refurbished, Velodyne active sub, D'Agostino stereo biamps, ARC SP20 pre, Rossini DAC/player with separate clock, Llyod Walker air bearing turntable...). I need to accept the loss and switch to the best headphones with equalization capability so I can listen without hearing aide distortion. Some have had this horrible experience and I wish to learn from your experience. How did you compensate for the hearing loss, and what are your best recommendations for equipment, and why? Cost is of little concern because music has been my saving grace for 59 years! Thanks to all in advance!
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A close friend who is my piano technician and tech for the Cleveland Orchestra pointed me toward an audiologist specializing in musicians and the professionals, located in NE Ohio - Heather Malyuk of Soundcheck Audiology. fstein, I'm taking your advice and seeking consultation with her. She apparent can work virtually, but I'll see her in person. I'll keep this forum informed of process and results. Thx everyone! Happy listening. |
My hearing loss came about gradually and finally got to the point that I hated to listen to my stereo. The music sounded two dimensional, lacked high frequencies and the bass was muddy. It sounded like I had cotton in my ears. I also have worse hearing in my left ear than my right ear so the soundstage was completely out of whack. Hearing aids made a huge improvement. My audiologist was able to fine tune them to where the sound was close to the way I remembered it. It wasn't perfect though. The high frequencies lacked sparkle and clarity and there wasn't any improvement in the bass. I downloaded Equalizer Pro (equalizerpro.com) and the Peace Equalizer GUI. They were very beneficial in fine tuning the sound. One nice feature about Peace is that you can save different leveling adjustments. I have one for my headphones and another one for my speakers. You can also adjust the levels for each speaker, even for speakers in a surround system. It was a big help to center test tones in the center of the soundstage and to make musical instruments and voices appear in their proper location. It's important to remember that hearing aids aren't intended to reproduce the full spectrum of sound. Their primary task is to make speech more understandable which means they focus on a relatively small band of frequencies. The equalizer helped tremendously to boost the volume in the frequencies that my hearing aids didn't address. I hope this is beneficial to you. Both Equalizer Pro and Peace are free so there's no cost to give them a try. |
Can you give more specifics under which topic/headline your tinnitus response can be found? Not easy to do without more info and I’d love to read it as I have a band mate who’s suffering from pretty severe tinnitus. Thanks! I’ll just also add, I have some tinnitus and did some research and this seems to help and only costs $5/month so I’d think is well worth a try. FWIW… |
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