headphones with hearing aids
Aug. 28th, 2013 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Have just found and ordered a set like the ones he had before from here. These are what Action on Hearing Loss used to sell before they switched supplier. A bit pricey due to ordering from US, but really not too bad as they do free international postage :) So the problem is pretty much solved now though I'm always happy to gather knowledge for another time if anyone has suggestions, especially on feasibility of assembling custom headphones. If that something we could do ourselves with a bit of kit - Spider being good with wiring and hands?
Please can anyone help me buy or build something so Spider can listen to music happily?
He wears a hearing aid in one ear and has normal hearing in the other. He used to have a really great set of headphones with an in-ear ear-bud for the good side and a hook on the other. (The hook sends the sound through the hearing aid to the bad ear.) He loved them but they broke. We got a replacement but he hates it. The problem is that Action on Hearing Loss have changed their supplier and now only do the flat foam pads like this, which just fall out of his ear, not the buds that go inside the ear like this. Here's a link to the new version: http://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/shop/single-ear-hook-and-ear-bud-product-m465.aspx
He doesn't really like over-ear phones either. If we can't find anything with a hook on it, he wants earbud headphones with a balance control. (No need to rec those as he's found some.) But they won't compensate for different hearing at different frequencies and will be a pain as he'll have to keep taking his hearing aid in and out. (Another great thing about the old ones was that they gave him a reason to wear his hearing aid all day.)
Does anyone know of somewhere I could still buy the old version with a hook and a proper earbud that goes inside his ear?
Or would it be possible to modify the ones from Action by replacing the flat earpiece with an earbud from another set of headphones?
I'm willing to buy several headphones or pay extra for work as it means a lot to him. He loves music and he liked the old headset so much it almost made up for being deaf in one ear. Not having it any more is making him sad.
Have just found and ordered a set like the ones he had before from here. These are what Action on Hearing Loss used to sell before they switched supplier. A bit pricey due to ordering from US, but really not too bad as they do free international postage :) So the problem is pretty much solved now though I'm always happy to gather knowledge for another time if anyone has suggestions, especially on feasibility of assembling custom headphones. If that something we could do ourselves with a bit of kit - Spider being good with wiring and hands?
Please can anyone help me buy or build something so Spider can listen to music happily?
He wears a hearing aid in one ear and has normal hearing in the other. He used to have a really great set of headphones with an in-ear ear-bud for the good side and a hook on the other. (The hook sends the sound through the hearing aid to the bad ear.) He loved them but they broke. We got a replacement but he hates it. The problem is that Action on Hearing Loss have changed their supplier and now only do the flat foam pads like this, which just fall out of his ear, not the buds that go inside the ear like this. Here's a link to the new version: http://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/shop/single-ear-hook-and-ear-bud-product-m465.aspx
He doesn't really like over-ear phones either. If we can't find anything with a hook on it, he wants earbud headphones with a balance control. (No need to rec those as he's found some.) But they won't compensate for different hearing at different frequencies and will be a pain as he'll have to keep taking his hearing aid in and out. (Another great thing about the old ones was that they gave him a reason to wear his hearing aid all day.)
Does anyone know of somewhere I could still buy the old version with a hook and a proper earbud that goes inside his ear?
Or would it be possible to modify the ones from Action by replacing the flat earpiece with an earbud from another set of headphones?
I'm willing to buy several headphones or pay extra for work as it means a lot to him. He loves music and he liked the old headset so much it almost made up for being deaf in one ear. Not having it any more is making him sad.
