The two new members of the Bragi family include The Dash Pro tailored by Starkey, “The World’s First Custom-Made Wireless Ear Computer,” featuring a unique, personalized experience, and The Dash Pro, a polished, reloaded, re-engineered sequel to The Dash that continues to press innovation forward.
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Brian Johnson, lead singer of rock band AC/DC, made an appearance at a Bad Company concert Sunday night, 14 months after he was told by doctors he may suffer permanent deafness if he continued to play large venues, according to an article in Rolling Stone.
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Brian Johnson, lead singer of rock band AC/DC, made an appearance at a Bad Company concert Sunday night, 14 months after he was told by doctors he may suffer permanent deafness if he continued to play large venues, according to an article in Rolling Stone.
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The innovative ReSound LiNX 3D™ hearing aids are now available in the U.S. market, taking Smart Hearing to unmatched sound quality and enabling people with hearing loss to hear more, do more, and be more anywhere in life, GN Hearing announced.
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Larry Humes, PhD, and colleagues present a summary of findings from their recent study published in the March 2017 edition of the American Journal of Audiology that compares a professionally driven best-practice hearing aid service delivery model to a version of an over-the-counter (OTC) model. One important message that should not be lost in the extremely relevant findings of this RCT study is that hearing aids are, in fact, efficacious and provide considerable benefit to older adults with mild-to-moderate hearing loss.
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Sensaphonics is running a Facebook giveaway contest for the month of May, the company announced. In celebration of Better Hearing Month, the company will award one winner with a pair of classic 2X-S custom in-ear monitors and a dB Check In-Ear Sound Level Analyzer.
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Based in Houston, drummer Danny Patterson plays a lot of gigs. Whether he’s playing in a local bar, out on tour, or in church, he depends on his Sensaphonics 3D AARO in-ears with Active Ambient technology, Sensaphonics announced.
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Plextek unveiled a prototype for a new technology that is designed to help detect tinnitus via headphones.
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Williams Sound announced PCM Marketing as its new manufacturers’ representative in Northern California, Northern Nevada, and Hawaii.
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Carl Ludvigsen, a pioneer and visionary in hearing aid research and technology, passed away at the age of 72 years. Among his many accomplishments, Ludvigsen was a key driver for Widex to introduce the world’s first digital ITE hearing aid in 1996, co-developed the Dantale word lists (with Claus Elberling and Poul Erik Lyregaard), and was a key advocate of “evidence based audiology.”
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Sensaphonics announced on April 1 the Perceptuator IEM plug-in accessory, the latest advancement in safe sound for musicians. Designed to make 65 dB sound like 100 dB, Sensaphonics says the Perceptuator plugs directly into your brain, and uses your own powerful sense memories to make you feel like you’re rocking your brains out while delivering studio reference sound quality at safe levels.
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Signia announced the release of the new Pure 13 BT primax, reportedly the world’s first hearing aid with both HD binaural and direct streaming.
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Clinically we all need to walk the fine line between the “values” of our clientele and the “facts” that we need to impart upon them as professionals. Marshall Chasin discusses this in relation to his own patients, as well as the OTC hearing aid debate.
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Clear Digital Media (CDM)—a provider of custom digital signage and educational programming for the hearing health care industry—will be partnering with the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) to launch the Patient Content Review Panel.
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Study compares the effective bandwidth and maximum gain before feedback of the Earlens device—a light-driven (as opposed to acoustically driven) hearing aid system—to six receiver-in-the-canal (RIC) hearing aids in similar conditions.
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