Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Music specific hearing loss From: Tom Brennan <g_brennantg@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:50:44 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>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 >