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davidmaxwaterman is offline davidmaxwaterman
2010-08-12 , 13:46
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Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
I do sympathise with you here and i can for sure throw some light on this because like you i have tried many useless devices to be rewarded with no success hardly at all.
Well, you're ahead of me then since I've only had one (IMO) completely useless one and that's the Nokia LPS-5. My actual hearing aids are of mixed usefulness

You might like to try one of the hearing aid centres that do have a good range of devices because there is always something that will suit you somewhere along the line.
Unless I want to pay for it myself, I have to go with what the specialist says. I have an appointment to try some kind of 'put-it-on-the-table' device and it transmits to my hearing aid, but I don't think work will like that because it could transmit the conversation to outside and leak all our highly secret secrets

I dont know what kind of deafness you have if it is middle or inner ear probs
Well, my deaf ear is completely deaf...nerves dead or something (possibly mumps when I was young). My 'good' ear is only deaf in the high frequencies, so it is only noticeable with certain things/people.

but i can tell you that if you have any success with in the ear headphones it will be possible to get one of the very cheap in the ear headsets with a mic to work for you,
I don't quite understand. I've not heard (pun intended) of such a thing...do you have a reference?

the problem of course being if you are totally deaf in one ear it would have to be mono output to the working ear.
Indeed, though perhaps that would be fine in an regular situation. It's only really with music that it's a problem, and then only when the artists get creative with multi-track recording (I only hear half of "little-high, little-low" in Bohemian Rhapsody, for example)...I'm of the generation that likes '70s music and they liked to do such things then :/

People just dont realise that hearing aid users especially those that only hear or use one aid can only get the sound in that hole and one ear does not give you directional sound but everything in one mixed up noise from all around you lol.
Well, I find it's not even as simple as that. The brain seems to do something a lot more complicated than one might think...it can automatically filter based on direction. Amazing really.

Also, I *can* tell the difference between direction when I think about it - I can only assume that the difference is much more slight than with two ears My theory is that the shape of the ear gives clues by changing the sound in some way based on direction.

Loops are useless by the way as the rf output from the mobile only makes the damm thing buzz like mad as you will very know !.
Well, I wasn't expecting to use it for phone calls, but I suppose SMSes and the like probably have the same effect :/ I didn't notice that when I was trying the LPS-5 - perhaps it does something clever...

Anyway, I still think there is quite a bit of value in having some s/w on my N900 that will just replay the sound from the microphone over the headphones (bluetooth or not). Do you agree?

Max.