<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>Not that this is the best or cheapest solution, but I require a hearing aid and found that the Widex is tunable for specific ranges. I'm able to hear better than most people without the aid, and tune the response for different tasks... For example, I have a profile for TV/Movies and one for Music as well as the standard.<div><br></div><div>The down side is that if you don't have insurance, one hearing aid is about $4000 + the remote ($300) *Which is insanely stupid.. It requires pairing, doesn't use bluetooth, and requires re-pairing when you change the remote battery. The pairing process requires going to the Audiologist with the tools... *suck*</div><div><br></div><div>/Mark</div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 22, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Andrew Cantino wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hey cyborg and electronics people,<br><br>My father is high-frequency deaf. He used to do a lot of bird watching, but he has trouble now since he can't hear some of the songs. I was just looking at this product: <a href="http://www.nselec.com/songfinder.html">http://www.nselec.com/songfinder.html</a>, but it costs $800. It seems to me it's just a band-pass filter for selecting the frequency range to augment, and then electronics to down-shift that range. It's been a long time since I did electronics. How hard would this be to build?<br> <br>This might dove-tail nicely into augmenting frequency ranges that healthy ears can't hear as well.<br><br>Thanks everyone!<br><br>-Andrew<br> _______________________________________________<br>Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>