Category: Distance and hearing aid performance

All Ears Are “Real Ears,” But That’s Not Enough!

Wayne Staab Leave a comment Amplification / Audiograms / Auditory system / Distance and hearing aid performance / Formant frequency / Formant transition / Frequency modulation (FM) / Haskin's Labs / Hearing / Hearing aid / Hearing Aid Fitting / hearing aid user / Hearing aids / hearing impairment / Listener satisfaction / Pure-tone audiogram / Real ear measurements / Real Ear Measures (REMs) / Real ears / REMs / Tympanic membrane / Zwislocki Coupler

by Christopher Schweitzer, Ph.D.   H. Christopher Schweitzer, PhD has a long history of research, development, and clinical activity related to hearing and hearing aids, and continues to own the Family Hearing Centers of Colorado. He is a frequent contributor to HHTM (Hearing Health and Technology Matters).   Background Students in Signals and Systems learn…

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Preferred Hearing Aid?

Wayne Staab Leave a comment Algorithm / audiologist / Audiologists / Distance and hearing aid performance / Hearing / Hearing aid / Hearing aid algorithm / Hearing aid algorithms / Hearing aid selection / Hearing aid signal processing / Hearing aids / Open platform hearing aid / Preferred hearing aid / SNR / Speech intelligibility

What Would be a Preferred Hearing Aid Performance?   Would a consumer select the same hearing aid performance as was recommended by an audiologist if given a choice among different signal processing schemes? The topic of a preferred hearing aid has been the topic of this series of posts over the last three weeks. Results…

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