Hi!
This sounds intresting.
WOuld be great if there was something for the mid and treble range as well but
i guess that is much harder to fix.
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> 30 juni 2017 kl. 11:20 skrev André van Deventer <andred...@webafrica.org.za>:
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> Hi all
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> I realize this may not be of interest to many so simply delete if you find
> it boring. Hopefully it may be of some interest to someone.
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> I have recently acquired a new product called the basslet. What this is is
> a very small transmitter which connects to any kind of music player with a
> socket to which you can connect [ a pair of headphones or in my case a
> cable connecting my two cochlear implants to the headphone jack of my
> iphone.
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> The transmitter then transmits sound to a watch like device which straps
> onto your wrist. The wrist device then vibrates in frequencies between 128
> hz and 10 hz. It was designed to give people who listen to headphones an
> extra bass experience which cheaper headphones cannot provide.
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> My situation is a bit different though. With my last cochlear implant I
> lost all frequencies below 100 hz which has a profound impact especially
> when listening to music. You effectively lose all lower sounds which makes
> it sound if you are listening to a transistor radio or one of these small
> and cheap cd players.
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> I was busy researching intohow to get back some of these lower frequencies
> when a friend from the US alerted me to a new device on kickstarter.com
> which was the basslet. This immediately piqued my interest and I thought
> that it may be possible to get the lower frequencies back by touch. However
> when the device finally came on the market I learned to my sorrow that it
> it will not be available in SA for a while. I arranged through someone in
> England to buy it for me and it arrived yesterday.
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> Although my initial impressions are very positive, I need to do some more
> experiments to see what the full impact of the device will be. |What is
> important to keep in mind is that this is not sound but vibrations.
> However, the vibrations are surprisingly detailed – you can feel the
> difference quite clearly between say for example the sound of a bass drum
> and a tune played on a bass guitar.
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> I’m sticking with music that I know in order to be sure of what I’m feeling.
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> Interestingly a friend of mine tested it yesterday with a pair of stock
> apple earbuds and he says the music is actually much fuller using the
> basslet.
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> Once again my apologies for this long and involved mail. Please delete if
> not interested.
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> Regards
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> André
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