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davidmaxwaterman is offline davidmaxwaterman
2010-08-12 , 14:25
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Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
That is quite a mouthful to digest ha and the biggest problem is everyone is different so my suggestions are not going to mean they will work for you.

the in the ear headphones are the ones that actually go into the outer ear canal as opposed to covering the earhole but if you have tone problems even that will give you problems as you would have to have converted sounds in frequencie to be able to actually hear them.
Yeah, I find the 'phones that come with the N900 quite good, but I also have a range of other ones, like some Sennheisers.

I also have some Senn HD-25s which are excellent.

All those I have no problem with in any respect (well, apart from the mono/stereo thing and having to have the other 'speaker' even though I don't use it for anything).

I know you say your completely deaf in one ear but have you ever tried an in the ear headphones to see if you can actually hear anything even by sounds being transmitted via the bone to the inner ear ?.
Well, I've had 101 hearing tests. They're never '0' because of this very effect - ie the sound is so loud that I hear it with my good ear through my head

I personally can reccomend anything that actually goes into the ear canal as that will get the sound closer to the ear drum.
Yeah. My hearing aid has a small tube that goes into the ear and just amplifies the high frequencies, supposedly to make it flat overall. It's a subtle effect - more subtle than I like, perhaps.
I had a couple of months with an ear-mould too, and that made much more effect, but not very natural and the mould was somewhat inconvenient to take out and put back in again.

The specialist said that my case is a difficult one because the hearing is effected only slightly....for more serious cases, it's much easier for her to do something effective.

I'm still curious if you think there is some space for a s/w solution along the lines of my original post...perhaps you think it wouldn't be much use to people who have a more serious problem hearing than I do?

I can imagine someone knocking something up using python (or something) that would at least let me try it out, but it would be a bit of a steep learning curve for me at this point.

Max.