Why It’s a Good Idea to Stick Around Bass Players
Staying close to the bass player—or otherwise enhancing bass audibility—helps musicians and listeners, especially those with hearing loss, maintain pitch and better appreciate music.
Staying close to the bass player—or otherwise enhancing bass audibility—helps musicians and listeners, especially those with hearing loss, maintain pitch and better appreciate music.
The all-new dB Check Pro in-ear sound level analyzer from Sensaphonics measures how long a music professional can safely listen to in-ear monitors, with both earpieces in place.
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.
The Bose Active Noise Reduction feature can help minimize external noise from a crowded restaurant or office, and can be activated by tapping double tapping the earbud. To turn on Passthrough Mode—which will allow noise in again—users can double tap the earbuds again.
Read MoreStill located at www.sensaphonics.com, the new site features a “sleek, modern design with enhanced shopping functionality,” according to the company’s announcement.
Read MoreOver 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.
Read MoreFunded 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreA 35-year hiatus from music due to hearing loss, and a new beginning due to dedication.
Read MoreThe “one-ear aided, one-ear open method” for musical performing.
Read MoreRecommendations 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 MoreSinger 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!”
Read MoreBoth appointments are effective immediately.
Read MoreRecently 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.
Read MoreThe development of an enhanced screening battery for NIHL can allow for earlier detection that could, in turn, prevent further hearing decline.
Read MoreJenna 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreMichael 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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