Dang it, I'm Deaf....

russ, can you please describe how the cochlear implant makes music sound? i'd heard that they have invented new algorithms that can be programmed into older implants that give them a more "FM" kind of sound quality. i also heard they invented something called a "hybrid" implant that maximizes one's remaining hearing range with a powerful amplifier, and the rest of the range reproduced with the implant.

My best to all of the responders here, who realize that things change, sometimes at the worst possible time. My hearing got slapped pretty good at the hospital where they administered an antibiotic too rapidly. My head felt like a balloon. That was years ago, and I miss what I lost, so damned much. It isn't just music. It is what I enjoyed most about life, i.e., listening to it.

russ, can you please describe how the cochlear implant makes music sound?

I have the latest and greatest implant from Cochlear America. It sounds like a cheap transistor radio with a bad signal and a busted speaker with speech by a robot.

"hybrid" implant that maximizes one's remaining hearing range with a powerful amplifier

That is for people that have some hearing left, I have nothing on that side. 

I've been deaf in my right ear since I was a young child

So this isn't a new or recent development and have never experienced listening to music any other way

When doing critical listening I do not face the speakers

If I do, the sound is left channel dominate and I find myself wondering if the right channel is even working

I sit with my left ear facing the speakers and able to enjoy full stereo sound and hear both channels evenly

When I made this discovery, I'd estimate that the listening experience was improved by 50% and found that actually listen at lower volume

I don't know the science or audiology for rhyme or reason, I just know that's what has worked best for me

Try Homeopathy.

I lost 70% of my left side hearing. And I got it back in about one month after treatment.

All this after 3  months of Western Medicine that did not work, I had nothing to lose.

Do not give up!