Howard,
Having a 40 DB loss in my right ear at 4KHz, I know how you feel!

So far as I know, from lectures I heard about 4 years ago, there is no
hearing aid that will actually pass sound above about 4KHz to your ears.

Since echo location depends on higher frequencies no hearing aid is going to
give you decent echo location.

The hearing aid industry focuses on only one function, that being trying to
help people seperate individual voices from a crowd. I suppose that may
work, but they don't know or care that we need our ears for other things too
besides being able to hear individuals in a crowd.

So start by telling the sales kreeps you must have frequency response to 8
or 10 KHz and watch them lie through their teeth.

Hope you find something that works and prove me wrong! <GRIN>
BTW, the "better" hearing aid dealers will let you return products that
don't meet your needs, often for a full refund. If a dealer won't do that or
a reasonably close promise, go somewhere else. There are a lot of crooks out
there.
Tom Fowle WA6IVG

On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 02:27:55PM -0600, howard kaufman wrote:
> My apologies, because this is very off topic.
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> I am beginning to think seriously about hearing aids.
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> Women's voices with foreign accents are really giving me trouble on the
> phone.
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> The problem is that all my mobility is done on facial vision, or sound
> shadows, or what ever you want to call it.
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> I tried my friend's $6,000 hearing aids, and they were amazing.
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> Amazing that is until I couldn't hear the sides of a door jam, or the
> widening ambience of the stairs in front of me.
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> Is it possible to have hearing aids, and still hear the things or lack of
> things that I need to hear to be a good traveller?
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> So far, I am able to hear cars soon enough to cross the street safely.
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> Its just the things I use like trees and poles that I don't want to loose.
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> Its not sound, as much as the absence of sound that I listen to.
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> I am sure many of you do the same, and I am sure many of you have never
> heard what I am talking about.
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> Howard Kaufman MSW LCSW
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