[Noisebridge-discuss] Hearing augmentation

[Mark Cohen]

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.

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*

/Mark



On May 22, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Andrew Cantino wrote:

> Hey cyborg and electronics people,
>
> 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: http://www.nselec.com/songfinder.html 
> , 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?
>
> This might dove-tail nicely into augmenting frequency ranges that  
> healthy ears can't hear as well.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> -Andrew
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