[Elecraft] Tinnitus and the K3 RX EQ and Related Variables

[Robert G Strickland]

Dick...

I've used ReSound for about 10+ years. I'm on my third pair - the latest 
being brand new - and I've been very satisfied with their performance. 
The newest pair has blue tooth connectivity to just about everything as 
well as all the latest bells and whistles. There is an APP available 
that enables more control, almost to the extent that one gets at the 
audiologist.

My hearing is the typical, old age [79y/o], significant loss of higher 
frequencies and moderate loss across the lower audio spectrum. I do not 
have tinnitus. I operate almost exclusively CW, and if I'm going to be 
on the air for a while I take the hearing aids off. Natural frequency 
tailoring! SSB presents its own challenge to the hearing impaired; I'm 
sure you'll get good advice from others on the reflector that operate 
that mode.

...robert

On 3/28/2019 15:03, Dick Dickinson wrote:
> Age 70.  I have a different hearing related problem as well as tinnitus.
> Background noise on my rig above about 2.4kHz seems awfully hissy to me.
> Above that point I have to start using the filters in my head to try and
> shut the hissing out.  The mental filtering takes some effort and can lead
> to fatigue.
>
> I'm not sure how this came to be for me, but perhaps it is what became to
> seem natural for me after listening to HF SSB through a pair of cascaded
> 2.4kHz filters (Icom IC-751A) for 16 years.  And even with that, I'd tend to
> crank the passband tuning towards the lower end.
>
> In my setup, I run my K3 through an LP-Pan, NaP3 software and onboard 192kHz
> sound card.  In NaP3/K3 I rarely run the filters above 2.4kHz top / 0kHz at
> the bottom.  As well, I use NaP3's equalizer dropping several dB above 4kHz.
> The rest of the audio system is a 5.1 surround sound receiver with decent
> bookshelf speakers + subwoofer.  I can tolerate wide band audio above 2.4kHz
> as long as it is well above the noise level, but generally don't find the
> audio above that range as particularly useful.
>
>
> Costco - A good ham friend of mine, somewhat older than myself used to swear
> by the Costco hearing aids.  He was a PhD EE and had a pretty good
> appreciation for audio.  I'm not sure if Costco offers different brands, but
> if there is a make that most agree on, can someone mention that here?
>
>
> Dick - KA5KKT
>
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Robert G Strickland, PhD ABPH - KE2WY
rcrgs at verizon.net.usa
Syracuse, New York, USA