Posted on 06/13/2017 5:02:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Those are essentially sound processing graphic equalizers tunable to the individual's needs and programmed to function in various difficult listening situations.
These levels of technology are/can be expensive and the programming didn't come cheap for the manufacturers either, so you generally get what you pay for.
They also require a good audiologist to properly fit and then program them to your needs, too.
Unfortunately, whatever damage one has is the limitation to overcome and technology can only get you so far depending on your actual damage.
If your ear is actually a blown microphone, technology can help, but don't expect normal, perfect hearing with an aid, no matter how much tech is inside or how much it cost.
They've come a long way, and hearing aids can give back some to most of what you've been missing, but it's far better to not lose it to begin with.
I wish I had not been so incredibly stupid with my ears and hearing and regret having lost far more than hearing as a result.
I'm a sociable person living in self-imposed isolation because I can't understand what is being said to me with my "guess-a-matic" hearing.
I even walk the dogs later at night so there's less chance of running into, but then not being able to understand, my neighbors. When that happens all I can do is smile, nod and wave in clueless frustration. Even a trip to the grocery store can be embarrassingly frustrating.
Fwiw, I'm waiting on my hearing aids to come back from the repair shop.
I currently have Starkey IICs and BTEs and, of all I've tried so far, I like them the best.
I also have some Siemens IICs, but the way they noise cancel harmful, loud sounds is dangerously confusing and I had to put them away in the drawer.
Whatever hearing loss you're dealing with, may you find the help you need to restore what's missing.
How’s my credit???
Neither of my parents nor my grandparents on both sides had hearing loss as a child.
I misunderstood. I didn’t have hearing loss until around the 5th decade, mostly from riding a tractor growing up then becoming a research veterinarian using mostly pig models—the squealing when you bleed them is ear splitting. My father and grandfather developed hearing loss around the same age.
Bfl...Did I start all this with a question a few days ago?
Did you? I have no idea
I just keep the radio on for On Star and turn the volume to 0. If the hearing aids had more than 2 settings it might work, but with just 2, it was not worth the money. If/when I have to shop I just don’t wear them. As long as I can see your face I can tell what you are saying.
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