Re: [AUDITORY] Music specific hearing loss

[Tom Brennan <g_brennantg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ross, I am both a musician and piano tuner and have to deal with this kind of
problem as I have bilateral Meniere's.  I'd suggest as a first course turning
off all feedback supression as well as any agc and/or other limiting circuits.

Tom


Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html

On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Ross Alexander Hendler wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I have a good friend who has moderate to severe hearing loss and although
> she can hear speech pretty well, thanks to her digital hearing aids, she is
> having big issues with hearing music. She claims that music sounds flat and
> distorted and that she can't hear melodies.
>
> She feels that part of the problem may have to do with bandwidth as hearing
> aids are designed for speech. She also says that if a piece of music is in
> a certain key such as C she will hear it as a Bb.
>
> As a music lover this has become a big issue for her and I wanted to see if
> anyone might have any ideas or any engineers I might be able to refer her
> to.
>
> Regards,
> Ross
>