Costco is the place to get them if a person doesn't qualify for over the counter. Also, Costco will replace the first pair free if one or both are lost in the first year.
So hecking chuffed about this one. Having hearing loss sucks; it's a disability and people should be able to access corrective tools without paying through the nose.
My insurance covers hearing aids and I *still* paid about $2K out of pocket for one of the better options.
Try going to any movie theater these days. I don't know what the hell they think they are doing. I have to wear foam ear plugs just to survive the blast of sound.
I will never forget getting hearing aids through NYU Medical. The hearing aids themselves were covered but they charged me $800 freaking dollars because the audiologist "showed me how to use them."
I'd already been a wearer of hearing aids for several years at that point.
I saw ZZ Top years ago and the bass definitely resonated through my body. And my hearing did not return to normal until the next day despite having (probably useless) foam sound blocking plugs in my ears.
Plenty of info on 386/387 family in old National Semiconductor application notes. They are old technology but very useful. You can look up similar parts from NEC and Sanyo to get ideas on improving the frequency response.
Back in the mid-90s, I had Judge Douglas Ginsbug (affectionally known as Doctor Toke) as a guest lecturer in law school in my Environmental Law course. Back then "conservative" judicial and political theorist were all over using "market driven" reforms in environmental law and policy. Cap and Trade? Pollution Credits? These all came out of the right in response to the EPA (which also came out of the right) using regulations. If we put monetary value into externalities, the market will force industries to be cleaner, drive technology, without the heavy hand of government on its throat.
Democrats, especially the moderate wings, said fine, we will use your market techniques and see if they work. This is the same thing that happened with health care when President Obama adopted the Mitt Romney/Heritage Foundation plan to use a market driven system to deal with the problems in that system. (Fun side fact, a higher percentage of people in the United States have some form of health care now than in any other point, with close to 90% being covered. Thanks Joe Biden!!!). But as the Dems moved to the middle on this, the Republican party suddenly decided that "conservatism" isn't about the market and individual liberties, but is about being against government as a concept and "owning the Dems."
We are in the same position here (and on negotiating drug prices with Medicare). The right used to be all about market based reforms. Now that Democrats are willing to do that, the right is just against the government making your life better. No one in Galt Gulch would ever stand for such a thing.
Oh, wow! Thank you Wonkette. I did not know about this. That is very good news because there is no way I could afford a hearing aid any other way, and I need something...so my kids stop making fun of me...and the grands...and probably the great grands.
My wife has the same kind of congenital hearing loss. We discovered it when I got frustrated about everything I said being met with "what?", so she got her hearing checked.
My husband is a mumbler. One of his favorite ways to communicate is to say something at just below a conversational decibel level to me, while he is one room and I am in the kitchen, washing dishes. And then he's, like, "Sweetie? Can you hear me? I'm trying to ask you something!" Yeah, well, climb into my ear canal, then. A normal hearing person would have trouble with hearing you over running water.
To Be Scrupulously Fair, the equipment needed for a band to be heard by 50,000+ screaming girls didn't exist in 1965. The Beatles couldn't spend money on equipment that didn't exist. The venues would just set up mics and played the sound from the stage through the PA system. Yeah the sound was awful, but again - nobody could hear them anyway.
When The Beatles went on their first stadium tour their amp supplier Vox built some of the first 100 watt guitar amps. Still was nowhere near enough power.
Movies can be a little tricky sometimes. Fortunately the MCU doesn't have a lot of subtleties and I have the teenager if I missed something crucial.
Costco is the place to get them if a person doesn't qualify for over the counter. Also, Costco will replace the first pair free if one or both are lost in the first year.
So hecking chuffed about this one. Having hearing loss sucks; it's a disability and people should be able to access corrective tools without paying through the nose.
My insurance covers hearing aids and I *still* paid about $2K out of pocket for one of the better options.
Try going to any movie theater these days. I don't know what the hell they think they are doing. I have to wear foam ear plugs just to survive the blast of sound.
I will never forget getting hearing aids through NYU Medical. The hearing aids themselves were covered but they charged me $800 freaking dollars because the audiologist "showed me how to use them."
I'd already been a wearer of hearing aids for several years at that point.
Yay for movies with captions!
I saw ZZ Top years ago and the bass definitely resonated through my body. And my hearing did not return to normal until the next day despite having (probably useless) foam sound blocking plugs in my ears.
Yeah, it amplifies everything.
LOL
Praise the Lord!
Plenty of info on 386/387 family in old National Semiconductor application notes. They are old technology but very useful. You can look up similar parts from NEC and Sanyo to get ideas on improving the frequency response.
A little story:
Back in the mid-90s, I had Judge Douglas Ginsbug (affectionally known as Doctor Toke) as a guest lecturer in law school in my Environmental Law course. Back then "conservative" judicial and political theorist were all over using "market driven" reforms in environmental law and policy. Cap and Trade? Pollution Credits? These all came out of the right in response to the EPA (which also came out of the right) using regulations. If we put monetary value into externalities, the market will force industries to be cleaner, drive technology, without the heavy hand of government on its throat.
Democrats, especially the moderate wings, said fine, we will use your market techniques and see if they work. This is the same thing that happened with health care when President Obama adopted the Mitt Romney/Heritage Foundation plan to use a market driven system to deal with the problems in that system. (Fun side fact, a higher percentage of people in the United States have some form of health care now than in any other point, with close to 90% being covered. Thanks Joe Biden!!!). But as the Dems moved to the middle on this, the Republican party suddenly decided that "conservatism" isn't about the market and individual liberties, but is about being against government as a concept and "owning the Dems."
We are in the same position here (and on negotiating drug prices with Medicare). The right used to be all about market based reforms. Now that Democrats are willing to do that, the right is just against the government making your life better. No one in Galt Gulch would ever stand for such a thing.
Oh, wow! Thank you Wonkette. I did not know about this. That is very good news because there is no way I could afford a hearing aid any other way, and I need something...so my kids stop making fun of me...and the grands...and probably the great grands.
My wife has the same kind of congenital hearing loss. We discovered it when I got frustrated about everything I said being met with "what?", so she got her hearing checked.
My husband is a mumbler. One of his favorite ways to communicate is to say something at just below a conversational decibel level to me, while he is one room and I am in the kitchen, washing dishes. And then he's, like, "Sweetie? Can you hear me? I'm trying to ask you something!" Yeah, well, climb into my ear canal, then. A normal hearing person would have trouble with hearing you over running water.
To Be Scrupulously Fair, the equipment needed for a band to be heard by 50,000+ screaming girls didn't exist in 1965. The Beatles couldn't spend money on equipment that didn't exist. The venues would just set up mics and played the sound from the stage through the PA system. Yeah the sound was awful, but again - nobody could hear them anyway.
When The Beatles went on their first stadium tour their amp supplier Vox built some of the first 100 watt guitar amps. Still was nowhere near enough power.