How the New Orleans Musicians Clinic Supports Hearing Protection
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Sensaphonics Helps Rashawn Ross Maintain Hearing Health
With the amount of sound exposure that comes with being a touring musician, Ross has come to realize how critical it is to keep his volume levels in check – especially with the long shows that Dave Matthews Band is known for.
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Critical Distance: How Far Can Musicians and Choir Members Be Spaced from Each Other?
First proposed by Wallace Sabine, critical distance is the physical distance where the sound arriving directly from the source would equal the reverberant or reflected sound level in the room. This critical distance is proportional to the physical size of the room and inversely proportional to the reverberation time which can vary depending on the acoustic qualities of the room. This article looks at the concept of critical distance for choir members and musicians, and debuts a new amplification device, HearHooks, as a possible strategy for addressing spacing concerns.
We’re Almost There for Music…
Over the past several years, the hearing aid industry has responded to the need for improved hearing aid processing for the listening to, and the playing of, music. Better-configured A/D converters and a number innovations have provided great solutions. Marshall Chasin explains why emulating a single-channel processor might be the next “big step” forward for audiophiles with hearing aids.
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Northern Arizona University Researchers Receive NIH Grant to Study Tinnitus
Funded through a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant of $455,982, the project’s long-term goal is to construct a profile that can be used by healthcare providers and educators to identify individuals genetically at risk for chronic tinnitus and help them prevent the condition.
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Notes from an Early-Deafened Musician
The typical image of a musician with hearing loss is someone like Beethoven, who lost his hearing long after spending a lifetime learning, playing, or composing aural music. What is lost in this image is the fact that there are individuals like myself, who acquire significant hearing loss shortly after birth or in early adolescence, yet fall in love with aural music during this same period in their lives.
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Rebuilding My Musical Self
A 35-year hiatus from music due to hearing loss, and a new beginning due to dedication.
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Keeping It Simple
The “one-ear aided, one-ear open method” for musical performing.
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Loss Plus Correction Equals Baseline
Recommendations for a “Musicians’ Package” for Hearing Aid Users: A Smartphone app that has a 5- or even 10-band equalizer to modify music output. It should also be able to enable or disable automatic controls easily, such as feedback and attenuation levels, without a visit to the audiologist.
Read MoreOticon Opn Gives Users a Better Quality of Life
Singer Karen Underwood’s hearing loss was insidious, slowly creeping up on her over the span of a decade until, one day, she decided, “I deserve a better quality of life!”
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Sensaphonics Adds Claudia Pyne, Richard Sandrok to Artist Relations’ and Sales’ Team
Both appointments are effective immediately.
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Using Audiology To Extend a Musician’s Career
Recently there have been news reports about famous musicians who can no longer perform their music and have chosen to retire. “By hook or by crook, that should not happen,” says Marshall Chasin, AuD.
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UConn Professors Receive $30K Grant to Study Early Stages of NIHL
The development of an enhanced screening battery for NIHL can allow for earlier detection that could, in turn, prevent further hearing decline.
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Jenna Paley Joins Sensaphonics
Jenna Paley, AuD, is the third audiologist on the Sensaphonics staff. She will be organizing and presenting at educational events to promote hearing wellness with outreach to industry organizations, as well as visiting touring and local artists at venues and rehearsal facilities.
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More Audiologists Join Sensaphonics Gold Circle
In October, experts in safe sound at Sensaphonics held their final Gold Circle seminar of 2016, teaching audiologists hearing wellness principles and concert sound system basics, with a primary focus on in-ear monitors.
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Musicians, Hearing Preservation, In-ear Monitors, and More: An Interview with Michael Santucci, AuD
Michael Santucci owns Sensaphonics, the only custom-only earphone manufacturer founded and operated by an audiologist. He has provided in-ear monitors (IEMs) to a diverse group of superstars and others with unique hearing monitoring needs.
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Tour Drummer Protects His Ears with Custom In-ear Monitors
Touring musician Jeff Snider preserves his hearing with 2X-S custom in-ear monitors and a dB Check in-ear sound level analyzer from Sensaphonics, which have improved his onstage monitoring on the road.
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Back to Basics: An Open Letter to Hard-of-Hearing Musicians
Dr Chasin explains Boyle’s Law, and why hard-of-hearing audiophiles or musicians who wish to program their own hearing aids, should also make an appointment with their audiologist to ensure that their programming doesn’t damage their hearing.
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