Thanks Dane, I shall have a listen.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net>
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Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
I believe he said he had digital <smile>.
Yes I used to put headphones over my hearing-aids but I can tell you know,
if you can manage a direct connection to your hearing aids then you'll be
doing yourself a huge favour! that's already been mentioned on list.
I reviewed one device which may allow you to do this and its called the
Tek Controller, listen to it at www.blindcooltech.com
On 20/08/2010, at 8:33 AM, Gary Schindler wrote:
Chris, that is what I do, put the headphones over the hearing aides. do
you have analog or digital aides, for that makes all the difference in
the world. my digital aides are natural sounding like hearing should be!
I have an old pair of analog aides which are sometimes on the sharp side.
----- Original Message ----- From: "chris hallsworth"
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Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
Hello all,
I tell you something, but audio sounds brilliant with my headphones
sitting on top of my hearing aids, which is how I am listening to the
computer right now!
So I will put it down to my laptop speakers rather than hearing aids.
Thanks all for the help.
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On 19/08/2010 14:53, Dane Trethowan wrote:
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.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane
Trethowan"<grtd...@internode.on.net>
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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 yo
u 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.
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