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From: dmimi@uncecs.edu (Mimi Clifford)
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Subject: Re: FM Assistive Listening Devices
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Date: 13 Feb 90 03:42:01 GMT
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Vixen:

I'm glad the Pocket Talker works well for you.  However, it is not
as powerful as the FM and, if one's hearing loss is more severe,
simply won't make it.  It is also far from as clear as a good FM
system.

Anyway, I don't understand why an FM system would cost $1700.  I
have a Comtek tranmitter and receiver.  The cost was ~$700.  That's
not cheap, I know, but it's much less than you indicated.  Someone
is making big bucks, it sounds like.  We paid 'retail', getting
directly from Audio Enhancements (which is the distributer)

I would assume, by the way, that Claudia Anderson, the head of
Audio Enhancements, will be at the SHHH Convention in Little Rock,
so maybe some of you'all will get to meet her.  She's a neat lady.
An engineer by training, who has (I think) 2 deaf kids--which is
why she got interested in ALDs.

BTW, I have no connection with her or Comtek, except as a very
pleased user, who was lucky enough to meet Claudia.