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New Research: Listening to Music Through Hearing Aids

Professor Brian Moore and his team at Cambridge University, including Ph.D. students Marina Salorio-Corbetto and Sara Madsen, are studying how hearing loss affects the perception and enjoyment of music and how music listening is influenced by the use of hearing aids.

Hearing aid designers have always prioritized making speech more audible and intelligible in both quiet and noisy situations, especially in modern digital hearing aids.  However, people often use their hearing aids to listen other kinds of sounds, in particular music – including some professional musicians. Hearing aids that are optimized for listening to speech may not be ideal for listening to music and some musicians complain that their digital hearing aids are not as good as their old analogue aids when it comes to listening to music. Continue reading