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Easily the best and most significant sonic tweak one could ever make!

Well hearing aids of course (if you need them and many don’t realize they do). I was diagnosed with asymmetrical hearing loss in my right ear over a year ago at only age 52. Entirely in the upper frequency. (As hearing loss per my ENT is almost always symmetrical, the protocol for this unusual diagnosis is a MRI brain scan to rule out a tumor; thank God everything was normal there).

Anyway, while expensive (partially covered by Insurance in most plans in the States), the different listening to music is in absolute terms startling. The proverbial veil is wayyyyy lifted particularly on lyrics but really the whole presentation is improved from the midrange thru to the top registers.

Keep this in mind before upgrading your electronics or speakers and perhaps instead upgrade the most critical precision instrument....your ears! I share this and if it helps one member on here, well that would be really great.
aj523

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sloanepr
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Aj523 is absolutely correct.

I am 70 years old and have been immersed in this hobby since I returned from 1973-1974 WestPac cruise onboard the USS Midway. The one item that definitely extended my audiophile life was the purchase of the Widex Dream 440 Fusion hearing aids.

Since those early days working around T2s and A7s and subsequently Bell 206 helicopters, and driving with window down and just simple aging, the high frequency loss and tinnitus has taken its toll on the high frequency response of the left ear.

I had very limited to no interest response from the local hearing aid centers. Their primary focus has been, and is, on speech. That however that dictates that they apply compression to the extremes of the frequency spectrum. Well, that was not acceptable. When I asked the Costco hearing aid center if they can tune their available hearing aids with no compression, they declined.

Aaron at HearSource tuned them remotely via the Widex app for 2 modes, Standard and Music. No compression or EQ on the music mode. I have never been happier to spend $2,700.

So… Listening to the future, I just ordered a pair of LRS from Magnepan. Will keep the 3.3Rs   Have a DNA1 that can swing the current and a pair of Quicksilver Mono 120s with KT150s that can swing the voltage. Will test both.

 

Happy listening to all.


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