Headphones for the Partially Deaf

[Merry]

I suspect this one could go in Hifi, Music or here but here goes!

Basically I've been deaf in my left ear from birth - I'm usually pretty unaffected by this however recently picked up playing bass and it's becoming a pain in the arse playing along with songs while using headphones. Particularly 60s stereo mixes.

I've tried a stereo to mono adaptor but that just leads to a boat tonne of distortion, and to be quite honest I'd quite like something a little more elegant I can use elsewhere. I realise I could mess with the settings on my phone too but I'd rather not as that makes things sound wierd when played in the car as I can still appreciate a stereo signal using speakers.

I'd also heard of earphones that can cancel out background noise so you can hear people, that would be excellent as I do struggle in noisy environments.

Basically can you get a wireless earbud that could do such a thing as well as handle music and lower bass frequencies? I'd be happy to spend a few hundred quid in such a thing.

Any suggestions?

[krisdelta]

Mrs Delta has gone from partially to profoundly deaf, we’ve had loads of excellent kit from here: https://www.connevans.co.uk, worth giving them a call to talk through options

[frisbee]

If you've got an iPhone Airpods do various things to enhance your hearing.

https://www.apple.com/uk/accessibility/hearing/

[RammyMP]

I’d agree with the previous post, you can set AirPods for one ear only. If you get some from Apple you can return them within 14 days if they don’t work for you.

My daughter is deaf in one ear so I got her some bone conducter headphones as they were recommended by the deaf society as you can wear them with hearing aids, she’s never used them.

[stevemcs]

We used to sell a lot of Sennhieser headphones, for people who had them Sennhieser had a inline adaptor so you could adjust the volume levels.

The bone conductive headphones were different - we sold https://shokz.com/ but they were not that popular. If you already wear hearing aids then products from the likes of Phonak are very good. The only thing with the hearing loss suppliers is they aim them across hearing and sight markets and towards the basic end of the spectrum. I suspect you would be better off going for a set of over ear headphones and an app that allows you to adjust frequency and volume (if it exists) You would also be better off going to somewhere like Richer sounds to try lots of different headphones as what works for one does not work for others.

[Merry]

Thanks for the replies - just to clarify I'm not really that hard of hearing and I don't wear hearing aids, my one working one has actually been measured to be better than most people's two - it's just where there's a lot of background noise, pinpointing where noises come from and headphones that are the pain, if I can solve two of those issues it'd be great.


Edit - Airpods would be great, but I dont have an iPhone.

Edited by Merry on Sunday 5th June 18:21

Edited by Merry on Sunday 5th June 18:24