The best quality still is I think if you can connect your hearing aids directly to the sound source. You cut out the microphones completely.
Most if not all modern hearing aids have the ability to take an audio shoe or boot which fits into the back of the aid. At the end is a 3 pronged socket into whnich you plug in what is called a euro plug I think. Someone simply has to make up some cables for you with a euro plug on one end and whatever plug is needed on the other. And yes I must agree that especially the lower frequencies of the newer digital aids cannot really be compared to what was available on the analog ones. I can get my phonak naidas down to somewhere between 35 and 40 Hz that I can assure you for a hearing aid is rather impressive. Andre -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Schindler Sent: 20 August 2010 12:33 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? 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]
