Knowles and Lucid Hearing, a hearing aid company, have partnered to bring the hearing health industry the Westone Audio High Fidelity DWT, a hearing aid with a Receiver in Canal (RIC) that delivers “exceptional sound quality for music listening.”
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Dave Amato, lead guitarist of REO Speedwagon, shares his experiences (and audiograms!) regarding in-ear monitors that have helped save his residual hearing. “Dr Santucci made it very clear to me that I had to change and start wearing both earpieces if I wanted to save my hearing,” says Amato. “…It changed my life.”
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Is singing worse than talking when it comes to how many particles are being emitted? Yes, according to the study. And the louder one talks or sings, the worse the emissions. A person’s age and whether they are male or female also affects their respiratory emissions, with males and adults emitting more airborne particles, on average, than females and minors.
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For decades, feedback and occlusion had posed huge problems for hearing aid users. Today, technical advances have nearly consigned these side-effects to history.
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Marking October’s National Protect Your Hearing Month, Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) announced that it is releasing the first of a new video series called “A Few Words About Hearing” that captures the stories of nine people—from all walks of life—who describe what it’s like to live with hearing damaged by loud noise.
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Nina Kraus, PhD, is the Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Communication Sciences and Otolaryngology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Through her research and those of her colleagues in the Kraus Lab, she has continually uncovered new findings about auditory processing and the brain, as well as our lives in sound—findings that have great consequences for young children and their exposure to music, as well as for people with language disorders, concussion, cognitive issues, hearing loss, and more.
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Researchers reporting in “ACS Environmental Au” have studied aerosol production from playing wind instruments, singing, and acting, allowing them to develop recommendations to minimize COVID transmission.
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The results collectively reveal how the brain continues responding to music, even when none is playing, and provide new insights into how human sensory predictions work. An article detailing the research appears on the Trinity College Dublin website.
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A study using the MUSHRA protocol comparing Oticon More™ to two other premium hearing aids, combined with a recent UBS Evidence Lab report, suggests Oticon More offers top sound quality—a key element in customer satisfaction.
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Canadian Hearing Services announced that it has been awarded Qmentum Accreditation with Commendation by Accreditation Canada with a 97% rating, becoming “the first national organization serving deaf and hard-of-hearing Canadians to achieve that accreditation distinction.”
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Aerosol generated by playing woodwind and brass instruments is less than that produced during vocalization (speaking and singing) and is no different than a person breathing, new research has found.
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Mead Killion, PhD, points out that, in churches and choirs, the risk of Covid-19 for people who remain unvaccinated appears to be greatly increased due to the dramatic increase in aerosol disbursement from loud singing.
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A strange thing sometimes happens when we listen to a spoken phrase again and again: It begins to sound like a song. This phenomenon, called the “speech-to-song illusion,” can offer a window into how the mind operates and give insight into conditions that affect people’s ability to communicate, like aphasia and aging people’s decreased ability to recall words.
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MCK Audio, the company making HearHooks and Companion Mics, has just launched a new website offering detailed product information, case studies, and research on music practices during a pandemic.
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With the advent of smartphone apps, free or inexpensive sound level meters are now within the reach of virtually anyone. Marshall Chasin, AuD, asks “Are sound level meters a thing of the past?”
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