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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Nicotine exposure—before and after birth—may cause a child to have hearing problems due to abnormal development in the auditory brainstem, according to a new mouse model study published in the February 12 edition of The Journal of Physiology.
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Author Bethany Ewald Bultman commemorates the 100th anniversary of the world’s first jazz in February 2017, reflects upon its acoustical impact, and describes how people like Buddy Bolden revolutionized music.
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Confused by the wide assortment of hearing conservation standards? Here’s a short guide from retired NIOSH research audiologist and well-known hearing conservation expert Mark Stephenson, PhD.
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Patricia Johnson, AuD, offers a perspective on the history and development of hearing protection and earplugs for musicians.
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Whenever the topic of hearing, music, and children are discussed, it’s essential to also consider acute otitis media (AOM) and otitis media with effusion (OME). Kenneth Einhorn, MD provides an overview of ear infections through the ages.
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