Best of Hearing Aids for deaf Audiophiles? Huh???

my hearing is perfect but I find if the stereo is playing I can't hardly hear someone talking directly too me I guess my attention is so focused on the music is the reason why. Anybody else experience this?

I cant really speak to the issue of hearing aides of present. As a child I had the misfortune to wear them. Huge bulky things-embarrassing to wear. I believe they are the main reason I got interested in Audio, odd as that seems. Still, I can speak to the issue of yelling at people who are hearing impaired. It may be a relief to wives and other loved ones all over that raising your voice is rarely helpful to someone who has impaired hearing. Much more effective to face the person you speaking with, to speak slowly and clearly. Being expressive does not require huge amounts of volume, just thoughtfulness. Sometimes just getting a persons attention to begin with -by putting yourself in their view or by touch, will go along way to clear up misunderstandings. My parents did not understand deafness and were embarrassed by my inability to understand what was being said to me. I hated- truly hated to ask people to repeat themselves- would read their expressions, and would try to pretend that I understood. On the bright side, because my inner ear was somehow malformed it could be corrected.My hearing loss was secondary to a primary cause which could be corrected. Now My hearing is-while not perfect, reasonably good. I would challange the idea that having golden ears would necessarily equate have an audiophiles sensibility or experience, anymore than having excellent eyesight would qualify a person to reccommend what the true components of art are or the perfect reproduction of color. These things may be measurable to some extent-by some standard, but they are also interpretive.

Great post Timf.

Ah Yes! Just a few more of the reasons to stay single. You just have to re-focus on the EAR-roginous zones