My hearing deficits are becoming clear...

Dont let anyone depress you.... All people with age and even young has no perfect hearing, but hearing is not only perceiving pitch clear frequencies it is also reinterpretting the sound perceived, and with an hearing aid you can begin to enjoy again music and sound in your own personal universe .... All of us we live in our sound bubble, conscious or not of our limitations...

Many people with very good hearing but with no personal listenings history experience cannot enjoy or reinterpret the musical impression created from the sounds...You can with or without hearing aid....


Music is NOT only in sound , it is a qualified sensible but also supra sensible phenomena coming from the sound and manifested in the brain/heart/body .... Nothing is  definitively changed for you, it is only an adjustment to a more straight window to see the world from....

I wish you the best....

Mark...if you are saying that it might be time for hearing aids to help with speech recognition..... then......


There is no “ one size fits all solution”. You will find that optimizing your specific situation requires a good assessment. Do some local investigation and try to find the best audiologist in town.

They will measure you and work with you to find the specific hearing aids that will give you the best results, and you will likely have to try a couple pair and have some tweaking done to reach a point where you are satisfied.

Thanks for the input, gents, and Fuzztone makes a fine point about group gatherings, my bad, no question.  Snapsc, your suggestion is just right... I have a top notch ENT doc friend with an audiology staff to do the testing and such.  I have no problems with listening to music, but with conversations, not very good at all. 

Okay well then get back to me when you start having problems with massed strings. 

ericsch,
Your link is very informative and a great place to start.  Thanks for sharing it.  Mark