Results of HAfM national survey available to read here: https://lnkd.in/efGh_99Q
This article explores the music listening behaviour of hearing aid users, mapping reported challenges in recorded and live music settings, and highlighting strategies used to improve listening experiences. The findings are useful for hearing aid users, researchers, audiology and hearing healthcare practitioners, and hearing aid manufacturers.
When we started the HAfM project ten years ago, our goal was to catalogue the experiences of hearing aid users when listening to music and to establish ways of improving those experiences. These results, derived from the reflections of 1,507 hearing aid users, are important because they highlight the main difficulties and where we need to focus on making improvements.
This includes:
- the experience of poor sound quality and distortion
- difficulties with volume/dynamics
- mixed evidence of the effectiveness of music programmes
- variation in audiologists’ knowledge about how to fit hearing aids for music in clinic
Our goal with current work on the Cadenza and related projects is to address these challenges and develop new solutions to enhance music listening experiences.
With thanks to those who gave up their time freely to participate and to Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for funding the research!
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