Low Frequency Residual Hearing Revisited. Great benefits.

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Low Frequency Residual Hearing Revisited

Great article on the importance of low frequency hearing in speech and environmental sounds. 75% of environmental sounds are 500Hz and less. The fundamental frequency of people's voices are low frequency, men's voice at just 125Hz!

This is why I want to max out even the low frequency gains. This will increase my threshold levels and give me the benefits as the article states. I know a lady aided to 20db at 250Hz and she has better speech comphrension than me. She also picks up on more environmental sounds. Many people could be getting more gain from their HAs. Normal hearing is 0db to 25db, why settle for less? The article even proves it helps! :hmm:
 
The fundamental frequency of people's voices are low frequency, men's voice at just 125Hz!

Not in the case of female voices.

By the way, most speech sounds occur in the mid and high frequencies while vowels are low frequency sounds.

With that being the case, high and middle frequencies are more important to speech understanding than low frequencies.
 
Many people could be getting more gain from their HAs. Normal hearing is 0db to 25db, why settle for less?

More gain doesn't always equal greater clarity.
 
deafdude1 said:
Low Frequency Residual Hearing Revisited

Great article on the importance of low frequency hearing in speech and environmental sounds. 75% of environmental sounds are 500Hz and less. The fundamental frequency of people's voices are low frequency, men's voice at just 125Hz!

This is why I want to max out even the low frequency gains. This will increase my threshold levels and give me the benefits as the article states. I know a lady aided to 20db at 250Hz and she has better speech comphrension than me. She also picks up on more environmental sounds. Many people could be getting more gain from their HAs. Normal hearing is 0db to 25db, why settle for less? The article even proves it helps! :hmm:
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I don't get it, you are so obsessed with getting the maximum amount of hearing but you flatly refuse to even consider a CI. If you want the best possible hearing it is clearly a better choice. I am just confused.
 
faire_jour said:
I don't get it, you are so obsessed with getting the maximum amount of hearing but you flatly refuse to even consider a CI. If you want the best possible hearing it is clearly a better choice. I am just confused.
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The reason deafdude doesn't want a CI is because he doesn't want to lose his residual hearing.
 
Hear Again said:
The reason deafdude doesn't want a CI is because he doesn't want to lose his residual hearing.
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That would make sense IF he could hear well with it, but he has said again and again that all he gets is enviromental sounds. I just guess because I'm hearing I don't see NR in high frequencies as usable residual hearing.
 
faire_jour said:
I don't get it, you are so obsessed with getting the maximum amount of hearing but you flatly refuse to even consider a CI. If you want the best possible hearing it is clearly a better choice. I am just confused.
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Better? With hearing aids there is no metal plate in your head and static electicity won't short you out. :hmm:
 
faire_jour said:
That would make sense IF he could hear well with it, but he has said again and again that all he gets is enviromental sounds. I just guess because I'm hearing I don't see NR in high frequencies as usable residual hearing.
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deafdude has mentioned before that he doesn't want to lose all of his residual hearing.

I don't understand this myself, but then again, I don't know what it's like to be afraid of losing one's residual hearing. I was more than ready to sacrifice mine and I'm so glad I did.
 
Bottesini said:
Better? With hearing aids there is no metal plate in your head and static electicity won't short you out. :hmm:
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Yes, for someone OBSESSED with getting to 0 db hearing, I would think that a CI could better reach that goal.

Also, Advanced Bionics has had exactly 2 cases of an implant being broken from static, they were a much older model as well.

Oh, and the metal "plate" is about the size of a nickel.
 
Bottesini said:
Better? With hearing aids there is no metal plate in your head and static electicity won't short you out. :hmm:
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Static electricity doesn't short out a CI. It may erase a map on a speech processor, but it can always be replaced since they are saved on the CI audi's computer.
 
faire_jour said:
Yes, for someone OBSESSED with getting to 0 db hearing, I would think that a CI could better reach that goal.

Also, Advanced Bionics has had exactly 2 cases of an implant being broken from static, they were a much older model as well.
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I have never seen anyone but DeafDude so obsessed with such a thing.

He would probably be just as unhappy with CI.

Nothing is perfect and he won't acheive it no matter what.

I think it is kind of a waste of time to argue.

But I guess we are all bored.
 
Hear Again said:
Static electricity doesn't short out a CI. It may erase a map on a speech processor, but it can always be replaced since they are saved on the CI audi's computer.
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That is what I meant. Poor word choice. Sorry.
 
I bet that if deafdude decided to get a CI (totally implantable) in the future, he'd want to hear at 0 dB and would ask the audi to program and reprogram his CI in order to do that. CIs don't work that way. I don't know anyone who hears at 0 dB. The best I've heard anyone with a CI hear is 15 dB which is what I hear in the low frequencies.
 
That's very true...i don't think that he will ever be happy with anything unless he magically gets hearing and even then i think he wouldn't be happy or realistic expectations of anything
 
Was Deafdude born deaf?
Cos if he had some hearing at some point he may want to gain normal hearing and may fear that a CI would take away the hearing he has already got e.g residual hearing
 
I thought I read somewhere that you no longer have to lose your residual hearing when you get your implants? Maybe I was dreaming that? :)
 
how are you eligible for a ci if you can hear without it?
 
Deafteen90 said:
how are you eligible for a ci if you can hear without it?
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There are some people who can hear some with very powerful hearing aids who are also candidates for CI's. My daughter could even "hear" spoken language with her hearing aids, but she could not understand it.
 
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