Very Interesting...a simulation of normal hearing vs. 24 channel CI simulation

deafdude1 said:
Each CI electrode does the work of several hair cells. Youd need 128 electrodes to start getting good pitch perception and 1024 electrodes to hear similar to 15,000 hair cells.Incidentally, ive made a post in my blog(link in sig) saying I might get CI in 3-5 years if all conditions are met. :hmm:

Hows your CI doing? What's your speech score up to now? I would want a 40% improvement and to get around 75% speech with CI as a realistic expectation.
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Says who?
 
deafdude1 said:
Each CI electrode does the work of several hair cells. Youd need 128 electrodes to start getting good pitch perception and 1024 electrodes to hear similar to 15,000 hair cells.

Incidentally, ive made a post in my blog(link in sig) saying I might get CI in 3-5 years if all conditions are met. :hmm:

Hows your CI doing? What's your speech score up to now? I would want a 40% improvement and to get around 75% speech with CI as a realistic expectation.
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That is a very realistic and reasonable expectation for a CI today. When are you getting it? :roll:
 
deafdude............ on the other hand, do you have decent speech perception with HAs? I do think that most insurance companies are going to start really cracking down on who can or can't get a CI.
I think you're a little too obessed with "hearing the best you can"
The CI is awesome.........but the sound you get from it is still basicly "hoh level of functioning" It does not overcome all the downsides of being hoh. NO hearing aid or CI can do that!!!!!!
 
faire_jour said:
That is a very realistic and reasonable expectation for a CI today. When are you getting it? :roll:
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I agree on the expectation. I get probably 85% all around and higher when it is pretty quiet. So, 75% would be a good bet for many people.

Having said that, just having "great" hearing with a CI doesn't give one the ability to understand speech. That is a complicated puzzle where most if not all pieces have to mesh just right. Mainly it is a person who has already developed speech comprehension skills since young whether aided with HA or a CI (beyond the obvious hearing folks).
 
deafdude1 said:
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Google is your friend. Someone said: "A person needs at least 100 channels to truly enjoy music."
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Umm....Let me see I far as I know, there is no such thing out there now available. Sooo, how can anybody make such a ridiculous statement?!? To make such a statement, one would infer that they have experienced it personally. Obviously, that is not the case. I'm reminded of the Monty Python movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
Sir Bedevere: What makes you think she's a witch?
Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt!
Sir Bedevere: A newt?
Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better.
Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway!


Besides, has anybody told you that music is a very subjective measure especially in terms of enjoyment? I enjoy my music all the time. In fact, I hear it better than in my HA days. Since getting my CI, I have started collecting music again and gotten a MP3 player and just loving it. I can't believe how rich it is and what I have been missing for so long. Of course, it is not perfect hearing but so what. It is what you make of it.
 
"A person needs at least 100 channels to truly enjoy music."

I find that the above statement completly baloney.
This year I have been gone to quite a few music concerts, which includes opera, classical music like four Mahler Symphonies. The Mahler Symphony No.8 was quite a treat with eight soloists with no trouble in picking out each of the soloists out from the music. Music sounds so much better now including the time when I was a kid.
 
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