[access-uk] Re: Audio Help Requested
- From: "roger south" <roger.south@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:10:46 +0100
Hi Tristram
I've decided I don't like you! LOL I phoned my audiologist and also
Seinhauser, the makers of the listening device I use, and they both agree
exactly with your comments. I'd definitely fry the device if I try and plug any
type of amplifier into it. So the upshot is when I get a cold take a sabbatical
from listening to books.
Seriously I'm so pleased you responded as you did otherwise I could have just
plugged in to try it out and had a real expensive disaster. Many thanks for
your help.
Roger
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
----- Original Message -----
From: Tristram Llewellyn
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 10:28 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Audio Help Requested
I don't think these are what you want. These devices are not designed to
drive headphones because they drive in watts rather than milliwatts which is
what you are after. Musicians make use of headphone amps that can drive 1000
milliwatts which is more than enough. I'm not sure quite what device you may
be using but it sounds like that it may have it's own electronics (passive or
active). If the device has it's own electronics then boosting the signal into
it may at best cause distortion or in the case the examples from Maplins quite
literally fry it.
I would think it best to seek advice from an audiologist about your hearing
device and the partticular problem. Most of us without significant hearing
loss experience some loss during a cold, it just maybe that you loose it in a
critical range of frequencies that relate to intelligability of speech
therefore boosting everything may not be a good idea.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: roger south
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 8:31 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Audio Help Requested
Hi All
This may not be strictly an access issue so I beg the indulgence of the
moderator. As a lot of you may know I have a very severe hearing loss and
listen to
the Talking Books with the aid of a variety of high tech devices. I won't go
into them suffice to say they are on the lines of a variation on
headphones. My problem is using these cuts the volume output of my Victor
Reader considerably. This is not normally a problem but when I get a cold it
_always reduces my hearing ability making it below the level of the Victor's
output causing me to stop reading until the cold is gone. The colds season
is not too far away now and I have given finding a solution considerable
thought. I have decided, rightly or wrongly, a solution would be to plug a
small amplifier into the headphone socket of the Reader and then to plug my
headphones into the amplifier thus increasing the level of output.
I have visited the Maplin site, mainly because I have a branch close by at
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=amplifiers&doy=10m9&source=15
and I have searched for their stock. The choice is bewildering which is
where my problem comes
in. I have not a lot of knowledge on sound matters as it's not a field I've
dabbled into very much
I list 3 I've picked out which I feel may serve my purposes and would be
most appreciative of any comments or advice,
A93FY, N66AW, N67AW
There is a long list of amplifiers on the site and these are just three I've
picked out which may be totally wrong so I stand ready to be corrected.
Any of you hi-fi buffs out there who can
advise me will be greatly appreciated.
Roger
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:-
** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe]
** If this link doesn't work then send a message to:
** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
** and in the Subject line type
** unsubscribe
** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the
** immediately-following link:-
** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq]
** or send a message, to
** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
Other related posts:
