Tinnitus and the K3 RX EQ and Related Variables

[Dick Dickinson]

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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[Randy Moore]

Costco does have different brands, but I've gone with their in-house
Kirkland brand. These are rebranded versions of another manufacturer, and
that has changed from time to time. One can discover the actual maker with
Google, or just ask the Costco hearing aid people.

73,
Randy, KS4L

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 10:03 AM Dick Dickinson <[hidden email]>
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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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
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