Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!oliveb!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!26!Jack.O'keeffe
From: Jack.O'keeffe@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jack O'keeffe)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: PLUGGING ME IN
Message-ID: <19053@bunker.isc-br.com>
Date: 25 Apr 91 21:26:22 GMT
Sender: wtm@bunker.isc-br.com
Reply-To: Jack.O'keeffe@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/26 - SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA
Lines: 49
Approved: wtm@bunker.hcap.fidonet.org

Index Number: 15241

[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Hi Vixen,

Sorry the jam session didn't work out well for you.  But I've been
in similar situations and I can understand the frustration you must
feel.

 V> Bonnies says, she thinks she can try to replace my bad
 V> frequencies by using an equilizer and handphones. For exmaple,
 V> she has a dual fifteen band equalizer that she would like to try
 V> to expriment with on me. Although, she still wants me to take my
 V> BTEs off. But she did say that those frequencies that I simply
 V> do not have, she cannot replace.

Whatever you do, be careful.  I have a set of big earphones, the
kind that cover the entire ear and shut out external sound, with
individual volume controls on each side.  These earphones generate
enough of an inductive field that they work well with the T-coil
on my Telex hearing aid, but they could be used with or without
the hearing aid.

For the sake of safety, always start with the volume at the lowest
setting.  And control it yourself.  Bonnie is correct that all the
equalizers in the world won't bring back the frequencies that you
no longer have.  I have a low freq corner residual in my "good" ear,
and nothing at all in the other one.  So I try to be very careful
to conserve what I have left.

 V> And she does want to do as you have suggested, set withever
 V> gizmo she comes up with to the curves or whatever you call
 V> them on a recent audiogram.

 V> Does any of this make sense to you? I know Bonnie knows quite a
 V> lot about sound and acoustics and electronics but I think people
 V> here, like you, understand more about hearing loss! Maybe I need
 V> to get you and her trading mesages!

There are limits to what can be done with the analog equalizers, so
don't expect too much.  If we could sample and process sound digitally in
realtime, then we'd have something.  Good luck - and be careful :-)

... Jack.

--
Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!26!Jack.O'keeffe
Internet: Jack.O'keeffe@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org