Hi all
I realize this may not be of interest to many so simply delete if you find it boring. Hopefully it may be of some interest to someone. I have recently acquired a new product called the basslet. What this is is a very small transmitter which connects to any kind of music player with a socket to which you can connect [ a pair of headphones or in my case a cable connecting my two cochlear implants to the headphone jack of my iphone. The transmitter then transmits sound to a watch like device which straps onto your wrist. The wrist device then vibrates in frequencies between 128 hz and 10 hz. It was designed to give people who listen to headphones an extra bass experience which cheaper headphones cannot provide. My situation is a bit different though. With my last cochlear implant I lost all frequencies below 100 hz which has a profound impact especially when listening to music. You effectively lose all lower sounds which makes it sound if you are listening to a transistor radio or one of these small and cheap cd players. I was busy researching intohow to get back some of these lower frequencies when a friend from the US alerted me to a new device on kickstarter.com which was the basslet. This immediately piqued my interest and I thought that it may be possible to get the lower frequencies back by touch. However when the device finally came on the market I learned to my sorrow that it it will not be available in SA for a while. I arranged through someone in England to buy it for me and it arrived yesterday. Although my initial impressions are very positive, I need to do some more experiments to see what the full impact of the device will be. |What is important to keep in mind is that this is not sound but vibrations. However, the vibrations are surprisingly detailed you can feel the difference quite clearly between say for example the sound of a bass drum and a tune played on a bass guitar. Im sticking with music that I know in order to be sure of what Im feeling. Interestingly a friend of mine tested it yesterday with a pair of stock apple earbuds and he says the music is actually much fuller using the basslet. Once again my apologies for this long and involved mail. Please delete if not interested. Regards André
