WAYNE'S WORLD - WAYNE STAAB, EDITOR EMERITUS

Wayne Staab, Hearing Health Matters

In January 2018, Wayne Staab, Founding Member and an Editor-In-Chief of HHTM, retired his blog, Wayne's World. However, the content Dr. Staab developed and published over the years in this section remains a rich resource that deserves to be discovered by new readers and referenced by earlier readers. Comment Policy

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RIC Hearing Aid Acoustic Considerations

November 23, 2018 49 views
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The OTC Hearing Aid Consensus Statement: An Opposing View

September 12, 2018 638 views
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Do Hearing Aids Meet ANSI Standards?

August 8, 2018 492 views
Measuring a hearing aid to ANSI (American National Standards Institute) Standards should be a... Read More

Hearing Aid Sales Pushing the Big Three Fear Motivators

July 13, 2018 352 views
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July 4th – Celebrate Safely

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December 1, 2015 315 views
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Hearing Aid Fears

February 28, 2017 435 views
In a previous post, I referred to the “Big Three” motivators of current hearing... Read More

SOUND

Sound Branding

November 1, 2016 444 views
Last week’s post chronicled the story of Harley-Davidson, the motorcycle manufacturer, attempting to get... Read More

Visual Guide to Critical Distance for Sound

August 25, 2015 506 views
Understanding how distance affects the transmission and intelligibility of sound is important to hearing... Read More

Doppler Effect Animated

November 15, 2016 907 views
A previous post described the Doppler effect in a simplified manner as it relates... Read More
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Sound Quantification II

April 6, 2014 467 views
This post continues a series on the origins  of initial sound quantification.  Last week’s... Read More

Loudest Sound

November 22, 2016 622 views
How loud can sound get?  Could loud sound kill you?  Are there limits, and... Read More