As someone who has borderline severe hearing loss I can assure you I need loud headphone.
My sister is in the same position and "quiet" devices and headphones are useful to us as the "chocolate teapot" or the proverbial rubber shovel. If we are not allowed a powerful headphone we are completely excluded from mainstream devices. Routinely we use devices at top volume and the headphone response is often crucial in determining whether it is usable or not's What annoys me sometimes is that people believe it is somehow a matter of choice for people like us. Neither my sister nor myself will buy loop headphones from the RNID now in the UK because they are so useless in terms of volumes. What is the point of shelling out £35 for a pair of headphones when the result is that you cannot hear the talking book you are listening to at all? The problem here is that such organisations are so concerned with preventing the onset of hearing loss amongst the hearing population they are completely losing sight of their main purpose, supporting the needs of people who are already hearing impaired, in my case since birth. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glenn Sent: 19 April 2012 03:21 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Earphone Volume Booster Amplifier For iPhone I've often speculated that such amplifiers contribute to yet even further hearing loss, like loud headphones can damage the hearing of someone with normal hearing, it seems to me that it would do similar damage to someone with hearing loss. I have listened to music too loud in the past, and I have tinnitus, and I now avoid headphones. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <[email protected]> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 8:11 AM Subject: Earphone Volume Booster Amplifier For iPhone Hi! I received this amplifier in the mail today and said I'd write to the list with my findings. Not much needs to be said, amp does all it claims to do. The device looks like a small fuse holder with a clip on the back for attachment to a pocket or collar. At one end is a lead for plugging into the dock of your iPhone/iPod whilst the socket for headphone connection is at the other. The controls are simple enough, a volume up and down, pause control in the middle with track back and forward buttons on the outside of the row. This amplifier gives you plenty of volume boost for your headphones if needed and perhaps I can illustrate what I mean by saying that I can hear the iPhone through my top of the line Senhiser model, normally I would only get this type of volume out of my Hi-Fi amplifier. I also have a 90% hearing loss so and - through these headphones - my iPhone/iPod can barely be heard by me at normal volume levels given out by these devices. I paid $25.00 for this amplifier and that to me is well worth the money. For Australian customers you can find the amp at <http://www.warcom.com.au/products/20124_fiio_e1_earphone_volume_booster_amp lifier_for_iphone_white> For those living outside Australia? I'm not sure whether the online shop at the above link wil ship internationally but give them a try, I've found Warcom pretty good to deal with. Alternatively perhaps a few minutes with Google will track this amplifier down at other sites world-wide. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! 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