Deaf as a post !

Will they match my NHS spectacles?

 

Are they the ones with the wires round your ears?

 

They say doing it too much makes you go deaf ....no sorry it makes you go blind doesn't it, who's there, who said that, has he got a kind face

 

Cosmo

 

You’re a very silly man, Barry Haynes

 

Hipster specs! Very fashionable.

 

Straight from tv, no add ons.

 

That sounds like a tradesman's comment ......I'm not after a quote.

 

What were you going to suggest. My TVs Virgin cable. Not got a smart TV though? Haven’t noticed any options on sound and it won’t talk to my ear pods ( which are good btw.)

 

I need to investigate

 

Tbh it’s not necessarily my hearing. Just watched Winter watch. Heard every word and didn’t have it on loud.

 

I find that a lot of what is on nowadays is difficult to hear because of accents or actors mumbling their lines. Me and Mrs em are always saying “what was that? What did he say?”

 

Which style of aids do you have? I’ve recently had one just for one of my ears. The ones that fit behind then have a little plastic tube going into the ear with a soft rubber cup thing. I find it very frustrating trying get it on/in then mess around to try to stop it whistling.

 

the issue here i supose that IF your tv has a headphone socket, and you plug headphones in , the sound to the tv speakers cut out, thats counter productive for your situation . i supose you could mess about with the tv headphone socket so that when headphones plugged in , the tv sound isnt stopped, than you could use the headphone volume controls to make them as loud as you want . Or perhaps you could have a digi box tuned in then have it tuned to same chanel and plug headphones int phono jacks at back of second digi box. i dont watch much tv, i sit with headphones on listening to sixtiess music on bluetooth headphone, but they do get a bit uncomfortable after an hour or so , so be aware of that , even comfortable ones soon become uncomfortable , dont let anyone say they dont. In essence it depends on the tv recieving equipment you have and your technical knowledge
hurray , a decent answer if i say so myself

 

Try this. I always find it easier to hear the telly when the wife isn't giving an irrelevant running commentary on whatever's on.

 

As you describe in both ears! Hearings still deteriorating I think and I’m convinced it’s due in part to them. There NHS ones. Think I need to have another look what’s available from a private source so I know if what I have is par for the course or whether my experience can be improved!

 

If you are prepared to pay a LOT there are always hearing aids from the likes of Siemens where a lot of money has been spent in signal processing to get sounds you want to hear to your ears. These cost a lot because the components used are miniaturised and also in small volume production.

Simpler cheaper hearing aids are more or less turning up the volume of everything including background noise.