The future of my hearing

Dbphd

Actually the notch is usually between 2.7-3K which is the resonant frequency of the outer ear/canal combination. When testing anyone who had a lot of noise exposure (often military) they had that notch as the low point of their response graph. At 4/6 and 8K the response was anywhere from 10-40db better.

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Buconero117

You make some good points but hearing loss does take away to varying degrees. I have a very close friend I fitted. He was on NPR for 35 years and has written liner notes on hundreds of classical albums. Music is his life. While I did a better job than the two or three audiologists he tried he still has good and bad days. Some days a violin E string just doesn't sound good. Many hearing impaired say this same thing.

Directional mics only improve speech in noisy places. They make music worse. They are two out of phase mics. The best way to listen to music w/aids is to use one omni mic per side and turn off all the compression etc. needed to "manage" speech. Also the new aids that have the receiver (thats what they call the speaker in hearing aid industry)in the ear canal right next to the ear drum have the best and most realistic sound and HF. HF is the hardest to reproduce and is usually where people lose the most of their hearing. Usually a hearing aid has the "receiver" send its sound through a small 1/16th of an inch in diameter tube that is anywhere from a half inch to two inches long depending on the hearing aid type.

No one can take your love of music away, even if it is not heard as well as you like. Hearing is not in the ears. It is in the brain.