Recommendations for the best headphones with equalization after severe acoustic injury

classicalpiano

I am very sorry to read about your accident. For an audiophile (and one with such an excellent system as yours), that is a nightmare. I hope that you can find a solution so that you can enjoy listening to music in a way that mitigates the damage to your hearing. Godspeed.

DSP might not alter the room sound sufficiently.

I like  Kennerton Magni's for EQ since all ranges are present.

You could play all of your files in folder or genre shuffle on a Topping M50.

It allows you to create a custom EQ.  Easy enough for an old bastid to do.

It even has configurable i2s output that you can't use. 

I appreciate the kindness of everyone's sentiments, truly. I have consulted ENT and doing all, including resting my ears. I've done no system listening for 12 days (ouch)! - sounds are boxed in and unpleasant in general, and the car system is hard to ID words and some instruments - my brain fills in what is missing sorta. I would even pursue stem cell options if there is some promise. On the audio end, it's that I share regular listening sessions with audiophile friends, and I hope they remain pleasurable for all! Room DSP is a ver good thought, and one friend can help me with trying that out for my 10-12 hours of solo listening weekly. DSP would distort the sound for my friends who listen with me weekly, so I'd have to toggle it off and on. And how would this additional link affect a a pretty clean chain of reproduction? I know, cake and eat situation! I'll explore Roon as the Rossini in Roon-capable; I use it's Mosaic to store a library of titles, but without EQ capabilities. And fuzztone, I think your recommendation deserves my thorough consideration - it sounds like you are onto something fruitful. I will explore all the headphone-style recommendations generously shared here with me. Trouble is, I would merely glance at headphone equipment reviews in TAS, Stereophile, etc and so am woefully ignorant. Who here with hearing loss has addressed their loss through headphone listening, what was your approach to a musically satisfying solution - natural open sound, dynamics, image depth, timber, comfort of wearing headgear, etc. Any dealers who you know to specialize in this area? They deserve support and my consideration. I'm in NE Ohio and easily travel 4 or 5 hours for consultations. I follow this blog for years, don't comment much, but this is a great great of people with thoughtful recommendations on all audio arenas from which I have benefitted. Much respect!

your hearing loss is in the range where speech differentiation occurs, and mist of the midrange and low treble, so if you don’t have a pair yet, you will.  The best ones cost around $6k per pair, last time I checked. 

My hearing aids have 4 eq curves available.  Some of the problems with hearing aids - which are not designed with any attention paid to audio quality! - derive from the severe compression they all employ.  So I switch to an eq curve with no compression, which helps.
 

it’s still somewhat low-quality digital, but it’s the only way you’d be able to hear your own very fine system, much less your friends’, with something like normal hearing.
 

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!