Hearing problems?

[workinonit]

$1400 is about right. Prices have been dropping for several years now. Every set I've bought was cheaper than the last set since 1981.

 

[workinonit]

If those amps work for you that's great. Most people with severe hearing loss waste their time with amps. My hearing loss is different frequency loss in each ear. You can't tune amps for that. Just be careful with those. They can cause worse hearing loss than what you already have.

 

[mrmikey]

And one peeve of mine is when watching TV/Movies...it really sucks when the background music or effects are so loud you can't understand the dialog...!

Yup, I agree with that. I was watching a series for a couple years ago and the last year they changed something that the background music was louder than the dialogue, I couldn't even watch it.
I bought a set of the behind the ear ear buds, After Shokz, I find them great for certain shows on TV, don't know why I can understand the dialogue better with them but I can.

 

[/pine]

Yup, I agree with that. I was watching a series for a couple years ago and the last year they changed something that the background music was louder than the dialogue, I couldn't even watch it.
I bought a set of the behind the ear ear buds, After Shokz, I find them great for certain shows on TV, don't know why I can understand the dialogue better with them but I can.

I get so disgusted sometimes I just watch something else...but if I'm really interested I will mute the TV and turn on CC...(used to do that when watching 'King of the Hill' so I could understand what Boomhauer was saying)

 

[lman]

My wife was trying to find a cricket in the garage yesterday. She was trying to track it down by the sound and wanted me to help her. I couldn't as I can't hear crickets anymore. That sound is the same thing I hear constantly from tinnitus. She also mentioned noise coming from a cicada a few weeks ago that I couldn't hear.
Are there any aids that will help with that?

 

[RalphVa]

99% of my hearing problem wouldn't exist if people wouldn't mumble...!

And one peeve of mine is when watching TV/Movies...it really sucks when the background music or effects are so loud you can't understand the dialog...!

Same problem. Have no problem hearing the news on TV with the Neosonic remote mic, but movies have so much other extraneous noise that I cannot make out the dialog. Fortunately, I have the captions.

 

[workinonit]

My wife was trying to find a cricket in the garage yesterday. She was trying to track it down by the sound and wanted me to help her. I couldn't as I can't hear crickets anymore. That sound is the same thing I hear constantly from tinnitus. She also mentioned noise coming from a cicada a few weeks ago that I couldn't hear.
Are there any aids that will help with that?

I think each case is different but the Phonak's thjat I have absolutely assist with frequency loss. I have different loss in each ear so my 2 aids are tuned completely different for each loss.

 

[mrmikey]

What I like about the Phonak is their app that you can use to tune the aid as you like it. I use it also when I have to wait in an office somewhere, I use the bluetooth function to listen to the radio, audiobook, podcast, or whatever.

 

[oosik]

I enjoy - Law and Order. But this year the background is so darn loud - it's really hard to make out the speech.

 

[Deere Dude]

My TV is always on mute and is always on closed caption. 10 years ago I bought a Sennhauser set of TV ears and I can have TV sound driven into my ears while my wife sits and quietly does her puzzles. Love it. If I do listen to straight TV everything seems muffled. For some reason even though I listen to the sound acceptably I still find myself reading the CC.