I'm trying this Nadia S 9 Up myself. I used to be responsible for
calibrating high end color printers to match cameras used in very
large corporate companies. I've worked closely with Kodak, Fuji
canon, Nikon etc and learned how to make printers print the way
it's meant to print.
My hearing is like a crappy printer that prints crappy color prints.
Phonak allows audis to use programs such as Target to fit users. Even
though I was able to make the best of certain color printers, my
creative directors hated the feel and the look of the prints. They
authorized to spend more money to get better printers for better prints.
Large printing companies were able to match our proofs so close that
it was very dead set identical to the printed catalogs. By looking at
our proofs, we're able to predict exactly how out cataloges will look
like to the comsumers.
The hearing aids are like the printers I have experience. I give
the audie my interpretation of what I hear via hearing tests. The
audie feeds that info into Phonak's target programs and it uses the
best ""subjective"" numbers, designed by Phonak's studies, to give
the best possible sound available. The audie takes my hearing test
numbers, the hearing aid and inserts a another microphone in the ear
via a small hollow white tube attached to the Target's own microphone.
With all these instruments, the program are able to fit the hearing aids.
Back to me. I'm afraid to tell the audie anything so she won't
adjust anything. If I say it sounds tinny, she'll select, too tinny
sounds will take me back to neverland. If I say it's too bassy,
back to neverland. Theres also too hollow in neverland. I have all
the tinnyness, hollowness, bassyness, sharpness, softness and all
those together is the road to neverland.
What am I going to do now? I guess I better let Target program fit me
and go from there. From my experience and the tricks I do to smooth out
undesired visual effects in print, I would go back to calibration and
trick the program by smoothing out the jagged curves in the hearing test.
I'm not ready to do that during my 30 day trial but I might ask to return
back to the root and alter the curves, the result of the hearing test and
hope it improves my fitting. Doing that solved problems in printing. I
don't like the results of my fitting but again my ear is like a crappy
printer. I spent all my life telling the audies what I want to hear and
never yet heard right. Now it's time for Phonak and it's target programs
to tell me what I should hear. It's driving me crazy but it's my brain
that might be the problem. First I need to hear the original fitting
before I complain. What you tell the audio can hurt you. What you don't
say to the audie can also hurt you.
Personally, I think I need to hear the vowels louder but for now, I'm
struggling ot understand why Target didn't give me that. Nadia sounds
weird but I give up on my own interpretation of what I think I should
hear. Either way, I'm still severe to profound loss just like a crappy
cheap printer. Here's a tip on the printer I worked with: quarter of a
million dollar printer. $1,000 worth of paper and inks per week.
Quarter of a million dollar scanner. a million dollars worth of computers.
In other words, high end imaging stations. Phonak is the same way.
High powers hearing aids, target programmings and all ends with a fitting.
Now I'm confident that my fitting is the best fitting according to Phonak.
I may one day hate them but heck what else can they do?
Like Jimi Hendrix and the wailing feedbak from Oticon's sumo wailing-like
feedback. Jimi founded feedback music and burned guitars to get wailing
feed back to squeal as long as possible. Phonak's target tells me that I,
too need lots of ampilication so yeah I'm on the end too and need to fight
feedback via burning my Nadia aids. Where else am I going to get high
frequencies? Target claims my earmold are loose. Hey, I just got them
not long ago. My ear is now probably big enough for my thumb. I don't
need to stretch my canal either. First thing I would ask the audie is to
fight the low frequency wailing feedback. The high sound feedback control
seems good.
