I believe he said he had digital <smile>. Yes I used to put headphones over my hearing-aids but I can tell you know, if you can manage a direct connection to your hearing aids then you'll be doing yourself a huge favour! that's already been mentioned on list.
I reviewed one device which may allow you to do this and its called the Tek Controller, listen to it at www.blindcooltech.com On 20/08/2010, at 8:33 AM, Gary Schindler wrote: > Chris, that is what I do, put the headphones over the hearing aides. do you > have analog or digital aides, for that makes all the difference in the world. > my digital aides are natural sounding like hearing should be! I have an old > pair of analog aides which are sometimes on the sharp side. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "chris hallsworth" > <[email protected]> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 4:17 PM > Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? > > >> Hello all, >> I tell you something, but audio sounds brilliant with my headphones sitting >> on top of my hearing aids, which is how I am listening to the computer right >> now! >> So I will put it down to my laptop speakers rather than hearing aids. >> Thanks all for the help. >> >> Sent using Thunderbird >> >> On 19/08/2010 14:53, Dane Trethowan wrote: >>> Ignore that, the whole purpose of VBR is to encode every sample at a bit >>> rate, you don't want encoding of say silent samples done at 128k as that's >>> just wasting band width. >>> >>> >>> On 19/08/2010, at 11:47 PM, richard claypool wrote: >>> >>>> I'd not set the min quality for as low as posible because that's too low. >>>> i'd set maybe 128 as your lowest point, and then whatever you want as your >>>> highest point. If you can't hear above 192, and won't be shairng the >>>> files, then maybe set it to 192. >>>> >>>> msn >>>> [email protected] >>>> skype >>>> lord_of_beer >>>> last fm >>>> http://last.fm/lord_of_beer >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane >>>> Trethowan"<[email protected]> >>>> To: "PC Audio Discussion List"<[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:31 AM >>>> Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? >>>> >>>> >>>>> Well really this is a very strange questions, I've been wearing digital >>>>> hearing aids for 15 years and I'n now asking myself, why should encoding >>>>> of sound be any different to those wearing hearing aids than for those >>>>> who are not? By that I mean you encode the way you want and the way you >>>>> like but one thing I do know when wearing good hearing instruments is >>>>> that you want the best quality sound you can get. An audio engineer once >>>>> recommended me use VBR quality and I did post instructions on how to set >>>>> this up with LAME and what all the settings meant quite some time ago so >>>>> I'm sure you'll find it if you look in the archives. Basically what you >>>>> need to do is set the minimum bit rate to as low as possible and the >>>>> maximum bit rate to as high as possible. There are 2 quality bit rates, >>>>> the VBR bit rate will need to be changed according to what you're >>>>> encoding but a good setting for music is "3", the lower the number then >>>>> the less the encoder rejects from the encoding. If yo >> u set the VBR quality to "1" then you may as well use a lossless compression >> such as FLAC. Use Joint stereo. >>>>> >>>>> Of course I'm referring to MP3 encoding with LAME here. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 19/08/2010, at 3:03 AM, chris hallsworth wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello all, >>>>>> I have been equipped with two very powerful digital hearing aids >>>>>> literally today. I'm wondering what is the best in terms of audio >>>>>> quality. By that I mean things like 44,100HZ 16 bit or 128KBPS. >>>>>> Many thanks in advance for any suggestions. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Sent using Thunderbird >>>>>> >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
