when your hearing is not as good as it was . . .


I'm 68, and too much loud live rock contributed to what they call mild-to-moderate hearing loss. So.

What will no longer make a difference in terms of my components? What can I sacrifice, because I can no longer hear it? 

Will Bluetooth sound the same from my DAC vs going through my preamp for example? 

Can I hear the diff between a tube (Freya) and solid state preamp? 

Can anyone share their experience and if they've done anything to their systems? 

mendef

Showing 1 response by sameyers1

+2 @hilltoppa 

Getting Widex hearing aids helped. The three band equalizer in the user software less so. I use Roon software to stream and the parametric equalizer built into the software was more helpful in zeroing in frequency ranges needing a boost. But in the end the hearing aids were the most help and the audiologist can retune them. 
 

Each person has different levels of loss so seeing an audiologist who can offer a high quality hearing aid is to me the first step. Don’t know how the Jabra’s compare to the Widex, but the latter are pricey, as much as a very decent preamp. 
 

I can still hear the difference between good and bad recordings, better interconnects and speaker cables vs. less effective ones, but I do still miss some very high frequency details over about 7,000 Hz. You can only recover so much with technology. So sit back and enjoy the music.