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In Reply to: RE: What puts me off is... posted by ghost of olddude55 on November 15, 2024 at 12:48:20
comprehension. I was basically scolded for not wearing my hearing aids full time, and was told I won't recover what has been lost. However, being careful to use the aids full time from now on would greatly slow down or stop further loss of comprehension. Previously, I had to sit or stand right in front of the person talking in order to understand what they were saying.
I was not wearing my hearing aids while working outside for fear that I would lose those tiny objects. I was also not wearing them as soon as I got up in the morning. Some days I simply forgot to use them.
The one disappointment with hearing aids is that all the ones I researched were limited to a maximum of 8000Hz for adjustments. Twenty years ago, I discovered that I could not hear frequencies somewhere between 10KHz and 12KHz. I would like those and higher frequencies back, but . . .
I am sure that I have lost frequencies even lower than that since then.
Costco also told me that I needed to return once a year to have adjustments. I agree, as the losses I discovered yesterday were the result of no adjustments for 4 years!
Follow Ups:
...if my ears lost high frequencies due to nerve damage, how will hearing aids undo the nerve damage? Even if the hearing aids boost high frequencies, how will that help if my ears are incapable of hearing those frequencies?
And I don't need sounds to be louder. I can hear better when there's less noise. When I'm out on my bicycle and I come to a road crossing, I can easily hear approaching traffic, for example. I'm not just hearing engines either, I can hear tires on pavement and the car disturbing the air it's moving through.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
a person will never recover those frequencies. The hearing tests show the frequencies that are barely heard and amplifies those in the hearing aid just like an audio equalizer. Hearing research has also shown that the brain will forever lose frequencies if those frequencies have not been processed in a long time. So boosting those frequencies with a hearing aid will not help.
I Question how continuous amplification will prevent process degradation. admittedly, I am not a professional working in the field, but a real medical hearing test is not a "do you hear this" yes or no deal.
the fact that the mind will report sounds that are not there as reality must be incorporated into the hearing assessment. that is why hearing test are correctly structured to identify a range considered normal or not, to account for the phantom reports of sounds heard that were not generated. there are no objectively accurate tests, like you identified 98 out of 100 test tones. heading tests can only be subjective.
not to knock the undoubtably useful service Costco provides, just trying to hopefully provide some interesting food for thought , that most audiophiles should be acquainted with. I'm sure the info would save more than a fe people from buying very expensive equipment or wires, because of what someone thought they heard.
of course, the interesting part is that what one thinks they heard is their only reality, what you think is heard becomes one's reality . much the same as the first impression of an optical illusion.
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