A Hearing Aid Solution for Music
The data from this study indicate that the raising the A/D converter bridge is a valid strategy that has been shown to be useful in both laboratory and real-life listening environments.
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Westone Introduces New Impression Material
Westone has added a new impression material to its cartridge line. SiliClone® X-act combines the accuracy and dimensional stability of Westone’s S-50 cartridge material with clean and easy flow characteristics.
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Research Roundup: November 2013 Hearing Review
Hearing Review’s compilation of interesting hearing-related research items.
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What’s New? An ADA Preview & Year-End Review of Hearing Care Products and Services
Here is Hearing Review Products annual product review, as well as a look at featured products and services at this week’s ADA Convention in Bonita Springs, Fla.
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New Strategy Lets Cochlear Implant Users Hear Music
“With cochlear implants, we’ve always been oriented more toward speech sounds,” says Jay Rubinstein, MD. “This strategy represents a different way of thinking about signal processing for music.”
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French Horn Players at Significant Risk for NIHL
New study provides further evidence that horn players are at risk for noise-induced hearing loss. Correcting for age, the number of French horn players with an apparent hearing loss is between 17% and 33%.
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Back to Basics: The Limitations and Benefits of Flared Tubing
Did we throw out the baby with the bathwater? The limitations and benefits of flared tubing
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American Tinnitus Association Names Cara James as Its New Executive Director
The American Tinnitus Association (ATA) has named Cara James as its new executive director; she has a background in fundraising for international causes.
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ASHA Announces Hearing Protection Education Collaboration with Bach to Rock Music School
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is collaborating with Bach to Rock (B2R) music school to help foster hearing protection education in B2R’s network of schools.
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Staff Standpoint: Has Costco Become King of US Hearing Aid Retailing?
“We’re now one of the largest—if not the largest—hearing aid distributors in the market, but I really don’t want anyone to know that,” said Costco VP Richard Chavez in a recent article in Bloomberg Businessweek.
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Designing Hearing Aid Technology to Support Benefits in Demanding Situations, Part 2
Widex has introduced a new hearing aid family, DREAM, that offers a dynamic range of approximately 17-113 dB SPL, rather than the conventional range of under 10 to less than 100 dB SPL in the older generations of converters.
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The Acoustics of Hearing Aids, Part 2: A Closer Look at Boyle’s Law
A review of some of the finer points of a basic law we use in our daily practices
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The Acoustics of Hearing Aids: Standing Waves, Damping, and Flared Tubes
There are many laws of acoustics that have been forgotten since the advent of digital hearing aids. While it is true that most of the modifications can be accomplished digitally now instead of acoustically, there are some subtle differences.
Read MoreSpeaking a tonal language (such as Cantonese) primes the brain for musical training
Non-musicians who speak tonal languages may have a better ear for learning musical notes, according to researchers.
Read MoreAn Automated System to Improve Hearing Aid Settings for Non-English Speakers
There are subtle linguistic differences between many languages that are not taken into account by the language-specific SII or the LTASS. The new Language Specific Targets implemented by Bernafon’s Oasis fitting software are designed to address this.
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