I guess decades of bar sound and shooting sorta messed things up!

I knew my left ear had loss above 4k but the right does too, just not as bad.

  • Captain_Quidnunc@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I’ve always wondered about this assertion.

    If you have hearing loss in a certain identifiable range, wouldn’t you want to increase the level at those frequencies?

    If your hearing is down 5db at 4000hz, you want a system that increases the level at 4000hz by 5db. Not a system that decreases the level at 4000hz.

    Just like if you build speakers and the frequency response has a dip in it. You modify the crossover to eliminate the dip. But this is assuming the ears listening to the speaker have a flat frequency response.

    If your ears have a dip in frequency response you therefore modify the crossover to bring your ear’s frequency response back to flat.

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      1 year ago

      It’s the opposite. You think that’s what you want or need to do. And then your wife complains non stop haha. But then you get correctly calibrated hearing aids and you get it back mostly. So no need to modify.

      Having said that I do have some custom JH Roxanne’s that they tuned to my audiogram. I just sent it to them and they tuned to meet my needs. That alone makes them sound better than any non tuned to me IEMs.