"Rich Peet" <> wrote:
>
> The recording equipment that most of us use exceeds the capability of
> your hearing aids. They may have come a long way in recent years
> but they have size constraints we do not, and care about different
> things than we do.
A wonderful piece of miniaturisation, I reckon, a hearing aid: microphone,
amplifier and speaker all built into something that fits inside my ear, and
still leaves room for the biggest component - the battery!
Mine were properly set to suit my particular hearing loss, but what
immediately becomes apparent, is the same old problem as with much nature
recording: they don't filter out unwanted sounds the way our brains manage
to do with normal hearing.
Thus for one to one conversation, wonderful; but in a room full of people
with up to half of them all talking at once, not so good.
So my query to all you so-wonderfully helpful naturerecordists, is this:
Can anyone come up with a design for something that could be used with
say a small lapel microphone, and which would act like a parabolic dish doe=
s
in selecting one frog amongst a pond-full, and be small enough that one
could reasonably use it in a social gathering of people, pointing it at th=
e
person I want to hear.
And what to use between mic and ears?
Any ideas?
TIA
'Presbycousic' Syd in Brisbane, Australia.
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"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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