As a person with a hearing aid in one ear and a cochlear implant in another ear, I still encode as high as I possibly can. Try to get some kind of direct connection to your hearing aids if at all possible.
Andre -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: 19 August 2010 03:54 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? Ignore that, the whole purpose of VBR is to encode every sample at a bit rate, you don't want encoding of say silent samples done at 128k as that's just wasting band width. On 19/08/2010, at 11:47 PM, richard claypool wrote: > I'd not set the min quality for as low as posible because that's too low. i'd set maybe 128 as your lowest point, and then whatever you want as your highest point. If you can't hear above 192, and won't be shairng the files, then maybe set it to 192. > > msn > bellevue....@gmail.com > skype > lord_of_beer > last fm > http://last.fm/lord_of_beer > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" > <grtd...@internode.on.net> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:31 AM > Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? > > >> Well really this is a very strange questions, I've been wearing >> digital hearing aids for 15 years and I'n now asking myself, why >> should encoding of sound be any different to those wearing hearing >> aids than for those who are not? By that I mean you encode the way >> you want and the way you like but one thing I do know when wearing >> good hearing instruments is that you want the best quality sound you >> can get. An audio engineer once recommended me use VBR quality and I >> did post instructions on how to set this up with LAME and what all >> the settings meant quite some time ago so I'm sure you'll find it if >> you look in the archives. Basically what you need to do is set the >> minimum bit rate to as low as possible and the maximum bit rate to as >> high as possible. There are 2 quality bit rates, the VBR bit rate >> will need to be changed according to what you're encoding but a good >> setting for music is "3", the lower the number then the less the >> encoder rejects from the encoding. If you set the VBR quality to "1" then you may as well use a lossless compression such as FLAC. Use Joint stereo. >> >> Of course I'm referring to MP3 encoding with LAME here. >> >> >> On 19/08/2010, at 3:03 AM, chris hallsworth wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> I have been equipped with two very powerful digital hearing aids literally today. I'm wondering what is the best in terms of audio quality. By that I mean things like 44,100HZ 16 bit or 128KBPS. >>> Many thanks in advance for any suggestions. >>> >>> -- >>> Sent using Thunderbird >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
