[Elecraft] [K3] Hearing aids, meet K3

[Don Wilhelm]

Don,

No adjustment to the K3 should be necessary.  Your audiologist should 
adjust your hearing aids to compensate for your hearing loss, and after 
that is done, you can adjust the K3 RX EQ for your personal preferences.

I have a program in my aids that has no noise reduction, and expands my 
hearing to be as flat as possible - that is my "music program" - 
sustained musical notes do not make the aids "think" that is noise and 
suppress it - I like to hear music as it was intended to sound. That is 
the program I use in normal household (and ham radio) environments.

However, I also have 2 programs known as "speech in noise" that do offer 
noise cancellation.  Those help in noisy environments such as 
restaurants.  The most severe of which cancels sound from the rear so I 
can best understand the person who is directly in front of me.

Work with your audiologist to get the best performance from your hearing 
aids in those environments that you value the most, and after that, you 
can make your choices about how you might want to change the response of 
your K3.  My K3 RX EQ settings are all set to zero - my hearing aids are 
set for maximum intelligibility.  YMMV.

BTW, I normally use the K3 with speakers (the XYL does not object). If I 
must use headphones, the hearing aids come out.  I may b unique because 
my lower range hearing without the aids is normal, so I have built-in 
low pass filters in my ears.  Again, YMMV.

73,
Don W3FPR

73,
Don W3FPR
On 8/6/2013 11:06 PM, Don Putnick wrote:
> So I finally accepted the fact that my hearing isn't what it used to be. I got my hearing tested and hearing aids are in order. No simple hearing aids for me, though. I want the high-tech ones with multiple programs for different environments. I'm interested in how others with hearing aids adjust the K3 receive equalization and AGC to match their hearing aids, or vice versa. Thanks much!
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