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There's a group in Leeds and Sheffield, UK, that are interested in music and hearing aids. They have quite a few members who have hearing aids (and some with CIs) and wish to listen to music. The general consensus is that, in large part, hearing aid research focuses on intelligibility and speech-in-noise, and that, although many aids have 'music settings', these are generally simply EQ and compression adjustments. incidentally, does you friend notice any pitch differences between air- and bone- conduction? - and is there a left-right pitch discrepancy? http://musicandhearingaids.org/
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University of Derby, From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Ross Alexander Hendler <rah232@xxxxxxx>
Sent: 20 July 2018 03:51:15 To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Music specific hearing loss Dear Colleagues,
I have a good friend who has moderate to severe hearing loss and although she can hear speech pretty well, thanks to her digital hearing aids, she is having big issues with hearing music. She claims that music sounds flat and distorted and that she can't
hear melodies.
She feels that part of the problem may have to do with bandwidth as hearing aids are designed for speech. She also says that if a piece of music is in a certain key such as C she will hear it as a Bb.
As a music lover this has become a big issue for her and I wanted to see if anyone might have any ideas or any engineers I might be able to refer her to.
Regards,
Ross
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