Hi Richard, I wonder if the neckloop has the plug with the correct connections for the neckloop. Also, did you try turning the volume up all the way? The braillenote accepts a stereo earphone plug into the earphone jack and I'm not sure if a mono plug would work correctly or not. If you have a mono to stereo adaptor around somewhere, you might try that and see if it gets you output. Also, it could be that the amplifier in the bn isn't strong enough to provide a good signal to the loop whereas the talkingbook machine may have a more powerful amplifier.
These are just suggestions and really not much more than that. I've tried neckloops before, but most of the time they didn't work all that well as I could never seem to get enough volume from them to hear it through the t-coil very well. I'd think you would hear at least something though, which is why I ask about the plug itself. Hopefully someone will have some better suggestions. A final thought, you might take the bn and neckloop down to your local radio shack and see if they can find an adaptor which might help. Again, just a thought of something to try, and not much more. Don On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:02:40 +1300, richard wrote: Hi listers and all on the list with hearing inmpairments. I have a neck loop, which I found I could use with the t coil on my hearing aid with some devices, for example, the library talking book machines. I could do this without using anything else, in other words, like an earphone. But when I tried it on the bn, I got no sound whatsoever. I wonder if this is something pdi or one of it's reps would like to talk about a little on the list, since we do have some hearing impaired people here. > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Lisa Kozlik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:33:03 -0500 >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] for sara braille notes and hearing loss >I have a severe to profound hearing loss and can understand the BN's speech >if the volume is set to 30 or higher and the rate is set to 5. I don't use >speech because the Braille display is more efficient for me to use and >because I'm concerned about damaging the BN's speaker output because of the >volume level. >For those of you who are hearing impaired, have any of you used an assistive >listening device/FM system with your BrailleNote or VoiceNote? I have a DAI >(direcct audio input) boot cord for my hearing aids and was thinking that I >could plug that into the headphone jack of the BN. >I've tried using headphones but I experience distortion when setting the >volume to a level that I can hear. >Lisa >"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes >life worthwhile." >-- Joshua J. Marine >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
