Re: [CM] Headphones -> Hearing aids

From	"~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc, rec.audio.tech
Subject	Re: [CM] Headphones -> Hearing aids
Date	2017-04-22 01:15 +1200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Once upon a time on usenet Trevor wrote:
> On 21/04/2017 6:00 AM, geoff wrote:
>> On 20/04/2017 9:34 PM, Trevor wrote:
>>> Actually they are just an amplifier, active equaliser and compressor
>>> with various stored custom settings like the ones you mention.
>>> What really pisses me off is that it is so simple now to have
>>> Bluetooth control from your mobile phone over all parameters of a
>>> hearing aid. Sadly there are no aids available that do that simply
>>> because the Audiologists want to keep their huge profits from
>>> fitting and adjusting the aids. And some of the ones that do have
>>> control over volume and mode settings via Bluetooth only work with
>>> iPhones because they are too slack to write the apps for Android.
>>>
>>
>> Or maybe they don't want every know-all Tom Dick and Harry further
>> damaging their hearing by inept use and settings ?
>
> Yeah that's what the Audiologists want you to believe!!!
> Not everyone is a complete numpty, although perhaps you are?
> Sadly most people never get them adjusted to maximum performance
> because after going back a few times to the audiologist they get sick
> of it and give up. Even worse, many who get free aids through the
> government pension scheme give up, throw them in the draw and never
> use them. I know a few like that, a complete waste of taxpayer money
> to subsidise audiologists pension funds. :-(

What's a "draw"?
-- 
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy 
little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

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  Re: [CM] Headphones geoff <geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org> - 2017-04-19 23:05 +1200
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                Re: [CM] Headphones -> Hearing aids geoff <geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org> - 2017-04-25 23:00 +1200
                Re: [CM] Hearing aids --> back to Headphones RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-04-22 20:38 +0000
                Re: [CM] Hearing aids --> back to Headphones Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2017-04-22 20:01 -0400
                Re: [CM] Hearing aids --> back to Headphones geoff <geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org> - 2017-04-23 20:59 +1200
                Re: [CM] Headphones -> Hearing aids Trevor <trevor@home.net> - 2017-04-23 12:28 +1000
                Re: [CM] Headphones -> Hearing aids Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2017-04-22 23:32 -0400
                Re: [CM] Headphones -> Hearing aids geoff <geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org> - 2017-04-23 21:02 +1200
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                Re: [CM] Headphones -> Hearing aids Trevor <trevor@home.net> - 2017-04-23 12:35 +1000
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                Re: [CM] Headphones -> Hearing aids Trevor <trevor@home.net> - 2017-04-23 12:09 +1000
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                Re: [CM] Headphones -> Hearing aids Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2017-04-24 15:29 -0400
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