Cognitive transference, it's entirely possible that with use your brain may
kick in the bass for you.
A long time ago there was a deaf blind ham operator in central Canada who
used the Morris code for communication. A gentleman at the national
research Council built a speaker box whose speaker cone he filled with
Styrofoam, and then topped with plastic for protection as this person's hand
would be on the speaker a great deal.
This person worked the radio for many years and most of her contacts never
knew that she was deaf blind.
Therefore I suggest a small Wolfer with major excursion capability and whose
cone be filled with foam to provide you a flat surface. It too could be
covered by a plastic film for protection. Small Wolfer's travel back and
forth more distance, generally, than do large ones to get the air in the
room moving. Hence, the term long excursion.
It strikes me that some of those relatively inexpensive three point speaker
systems for computers might have a ready made Wolfer box that you could
adapt directly. I see them all over the place for around $100 or less. A
computer repair store just may have a set of these speakers with the tweeter
components not functioning, as it's rather common for their cables to break
or deteriorate.
Best of luck to you, and let us know if it works out. It's probably
material for a research article.
Geoff
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From: André van Deventer
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 3:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: feeling bass frequencies
Hi all
I sincerely hope this is not off topic for the list. If so the moderators
must please let me know and I will request people to answer me off list.
I have a very unique situation here. I have just had a second cochlear
implant which resulted in my losing all frequencies below about 100 hz.
This as many of you know results in you losing quite a deal of the lower
bass sounds in music.
I’m researching some way of now compensating for this. The only way I can
think up is to use my tactile sense to feel the missing frequencies. Maybe
the brain may put the signals of the audio and visual cortex together and
create some kind of a whole.
What I have done is to lightly rest my fingers onto the front of my
reasonable quality sub whoofer. It is then indeed possible to do this. But
it’s really not the most comfortable position to sit in also. Another thing
– if you turn up the bass too much, the harmonics starts to distort the
cochlear implants.
So I’m wondering if someone has any thoughts on this rather unique challenge
to share?
Regards
Andre
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