LM328 - Our Clients Require Three Distinct Music Programs: More Is Better

Friday, April 1, 2022

4:45 PM – 5:45 PM CT

Location: 127

Earn 0.1 CEUs

Lead Presenter(s)

Marshall L. Chasin, AuD

Audiologist
Musicians' Clinics of Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Disclosure: Financial Disclosures: Plural Publishing Company- Royalties, I will be publishing a book called Music and Hearing Aids (Plural Publishing) in March or April 2022 and expect a modicum of royalties based on future sales
Non-Financial Disclosures: I do not have any relevant non-financial relationships with anything to disclose.

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Abstract: Three distinct “music programs” should be available where music is important, either as a listener or as a performer. Audio-simulations will be presented.

< !1. Prerecorded music should be linear, or near-linear in order to avoid the “double compression” found with already compression limited music.

< ! 2. Playing or listening to live music would be similar to the client’s speech in quiet program but with a disabling of certain advanced features.

< !3. Playing or listening to “instrumental music only” can utilize a one octave linear frequency lowering algorithm that avoids harmonic distortion but creates other acceptable musical intervals.

Learning Objectives:

Apply software programming to optimize fitting hearings for music.
Evaluate cochlea dead regions in a clinically efficient manner in order to determine frequency response limitations.
Demonstrate to their clients why a certain "advanced feature" may or may not be a benefit for a music program.