Chris, that is what I do, put the headphones over the hearing aides. do you
have analog or digital aides, for that makes all the difference in the
world. my digital aides are natural sounding like hearing should be! I have
an old pair of analog aides which are sometimes on the sharp side.
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From: "chris hallsworth" <christopher...@googlemail.com>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
Hello all,
I tell you something, but audio sounds brilliant with my headphones
sitting on top of my hearing aids, which is how I am listening to the
computer right now!
So I will put it down to my laptop speakers rather than hearing aids.
Thanks all for the help.
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On 19/08/2010 14:53, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Ignore that, the whole purpose of VBR is to encode every sample at a bit
rate, you don't want encoding of say silent samples done at 128k as
that's just wasting band width.
On 19/08/2010, at 11:47 PM, richard claypool wrote:
I'd not set the min quality for as low as posible because that's too
low. i'd set maybe 128 as your lowest point, and then whatever you want
as your highest point. If you can't hear above 192, and won't be
shairng the files, then maybe set it to 192.
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Trethowan"<grtd...@internode.on.net>
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Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
Well really this is a very strange questions, I've been wearing digital
hearing aids for 15 years and I'n now asking myself, why should
encoding of sound be any different to those wearing hearing aids than
for those who are not? By that I mean you encode the way you want and
the way you like but one thing I do know when wearing good hearing
instruments is that you want the best quality sound you can get. An
audio engineer once recommended me use VBR quality and I did post
instructions on how to set this up with LAME and what all the settings
meant quite some time ago so I'm sure you'll find it if you look in the
archives. Basically what you need to do is set the minimum bit rate to
as low as possible and the maximum bit rate to as high as possible.
There are 2 quality bit rates, the VBR bit rate will need to be changed
according to what you're encoding but a good setting for music is "3",
the lower the number then the less the encoder rejects from the
encoding. If yo
u set the VBR quality to "1" then you may as well use a lossless
compression such as FLAC. Use Joint stereo.
Of course I'm referring to MP3 encoding with LAME here.
On 19/08/2010, at 3:03 AM, chris hallsworth wrote:
Hello all,
I have been equipped with two very powerful digital hearing aids
literally today. I'm wondering what is the best in terms of audio
quality. By that I mean things like 44,100HZ 16 bit or 128KBPS.
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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