Golden Earring wrote: > Hi doc! > > Not a medic myself, but I believe that some of the latest (=expensive, > need it buy it yourself... ) hearing aids have a pretty wide frequency > range if needed purely for amplification purposes. However there are > lots of different kinds of hearing impairment, so I would imagine the > precise nature of the actual hearing impairment would be critical in > determining the sufferer's ability to listen to music enjoyably. > > As an extreme example, I would offer severe tinnitus which apparently > can be so bad that another person located next to the sufferer can hear > the ringing for themselves! It's hard to see how one could listen > -through- that level of interference, although vinyl fans will > appreciate that with practice it is possible to some extent to listen > through the low amplitude constant surface noise which has a regular > frequency profile, and that the inevitable pops & crackles are partly > "tuned out" by the mechanism that Arny has already explained by which > our hearing is designed to reduce the impact of high amplitude but short > duration sounds so that we can detect the quiet sounds that might > indicate the presence of a real threat to our continued existence. One > can only hope that Natural Selection continues to regard this trait as > valuable for the benefit of future generations - otherwise they may not > be able to appreciate solo piano music as we do if I have understood > Arny's point correctly. > > So I should imagine that some hearing impairment sufferers can continue > to enjoy their music, whereas others would have to seek solace > elsewhere. > > As regards Glaswegians, I may have been unlucky insofar as the ones that > I have actually encountered didn't seem to have much interesting > conversation about them once I'd deciphered the dialect, and moreover > seemed to exhibit a somewhat bellicose approach to life, especially when > mullered which seemed also to be a regular condition. I am not casting > aspersions at ALL Glaswegians since I haven't met them all & I wouldn't > want to generalise. However given the limited amount of time now at my > disposal, I am not actively seeking to meet any more of them. This is > obviously not politically correct of me, but then some people don't like > Brummies such as myself either... > > Dave :)
I'm not that type of doctor either.. :) I have no doubt that the hearing impaired enjoy music, which is after all almost entirely disconnected from this expensive hobby we all seem to have in common of buying overpriced electronics purely to achieve better technical reproduction of sound.. And even tinitus sufferers can get the SPL high enough with a sound system that they will forget the tinitus for a short while. There is lots of really good research going on into fixing these physiological problems that some people are cursed with, and I think the focus has rightly moved from working out what went wrong to working out pragmatic and practical methods to make things better. (Such as the frequency shift tricks mentioned above, and bone transmission methods, and so on.) My own experience of Glaswegians is more positive; but with the best will in the world even those that I know extremely well can't be easily understood unless I've spent a lot of time acclimatising in the very recent past.. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
