Can you enjoy music with a Hearing Loss?
Whether you are a musician, sound engineer, or simply a music lover and you are concerned about your hearing it may be time to book a FREE Hearing Test at Richmond Hearing Centre.
We can provide you with a full Free Hearing Test at one of our clinics or from the comfort of your own home.
If you wish to book a Test or have any questions please call one of our team on 0800 772 0006 or 0208 004 7991 or if you prefer message us below.
Are you a music lover with a Hearing Loss?
Birdsong in the morning, a jazz band in a restaurant, going to concerts or the opera, hearing is about so much more than speech. Music and sound can be a passion, hobby or even your livelihood.
It can be heart-breaking to feel like we are missing aspects of our music and it may be hard to come to terms with this, as we may assume it is gone forever, however this doesn’t have to be the case!
Early diagnosis and detection of Hearing Loss can greatly increase your chances of regaining what is lost. We are able to offer an examination and test to determine the cause and help you with your loss, be it due to a build up of wax, a foreign object or a loss due to age or noise damage there are ways we can support you.
Our team understands the importance of being able to enjoy all the sounds that life has to offer and we want to support your lifestyle as best as we are able whilst you are on your journey to better hearing.
As part of our process for prescribing hearing aids we take into consideration your social life and career.
Musical instruments tend to play above these frequencies and at a much faster rate than speech. With the range of frequencies and speed that multiple instruments are playing the Hearing Aid processors struggle to determine which sounds require attention. They also struggle to cope with the higher frequencies that they are not devised to support and cause a distortion.
So what can be done about this?
Many manufacturers offer hearing aids with music presets in the programming which are designed to support you in your enjoyment of music and allowing you access to the higher frequencies
The sound of music is a much harder issue for manufacturers to contend with; the information being fed to the microphones comes in at a much higher rate and spans a greater field of frequencies than speech.
The hearing aid has to detect the sound coming in, quickly process it and try to replicate it back into the receiver. It tries to do this in as close to real time and in a way in which the sound produced is as close to natural hearing as possible.
At Richmond Hearing we have a team of dedicated audiologists who are members of the Health & Care Professions Council and The British Society Of Hearing Aid Audiologists (BSHAA).
