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I'm also 64 with conductive hearing loss, but

Posted by Frihed89 (A) on March 30, 2007 at 04:41:52

In Reply to: Thanks for your ideas and support... posted by smitlar on March 29, 2007 at 16:47:06:

I can't solder and I have almost electrocuted myself so many times, I have given up trying....to solder.

I wish I could....solder.

I think you are better off getting a pair of moderately sensitive speakers and building a non-SET in the 30-50 Wpc range. SETs get you into horns. Horns don't cut it with my hearing loss and my hearing aid. I get a lot of feedback squeel! I am not sure why. Also, with your hearing loss you probably want a voltage amplifier (transformer coupled) and not an OTL or any other amp that acts like a current device. Depending on how hard speakers are to drive and how reactive they are, voltage amps will give you a less variable (more constant) noise output without having to increase the ouput power as speaker impedance varies, which i learned the hard way from using low impedance headphones with an OTL amp. (i have about a 20 dB hearing difference.)

I think!

I have small monitors with a lovely mid-range and they don't cost an arm and a leg: Quad 12Ls.

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