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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Sennheiser Electronics announced the Flex 5000, a digital wireless audio system for headphones that intensifies TV sound.
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Phonak’s in-ear monitors played a role in the movie La La Land. The monitors were used to assist the director with providing sound cues to actors, particularly during live scenes.
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In the fall of 2016, Robert Zurga, who was the third US patient to receive a MED-EL cochlear implant, returned to Duke University for a reunion with his surgeon, Debara Tucci, MD, and his CI audiologist, MED-EL North America CEO, Raymond Gamble—Zurga was the first cochlear implant that Gamble had ever programmed while on an audiology rotation at Duke.
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Two new papers published in Nature Biotechnology on February 6 detail research by scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital—a pediatric teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School—on an improved gene therapy that helps restore hearing to genetically deaf mice.
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This special supplement of The Hearing Review, which focuses on the Widex BEYOND hearing aid, provides an overview of the research, engineering, and clinical testing behind Effortless Hearing—and why Widex believes it represents a landmark achievement in hearing aid design.
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