I’m looking for technical help or recommendations on: Hearing assistance, intercoms
I’m sure I’m not alone in suffering hearing problems. My left side is worse than right, and even with hearing aids it’s difficult to hold a conversation . I tend to turn my head towards the passenger seat, which isn’t ideal…
With the possibility of a transcontinental journey on the horizon, what solutions have members found ? Rally style headsets seem like overkill, and motorcycle intercoms are designed for in-helmet fitting. Ideally, some kind of in car hearing loop feeding the hearing aids ? Do they exist ?
I’d like to avoid spending big on something that doesn’t actually work…
Hmm, I’m way out of date on this, but are you talking about T-powered loops or is there something more modern?
Forty years ago we modified a colleagues TV and house so he could watch the TV without deafening his wife with the TV sound. We fitted the loop around under the skirting boards of his living room arranged as a current drive from a modified amplifier in the TV. He could listen upstairs in bed or on the loo too.
The TV was a Phirips with class A audio to guarantee a minimum load for its very crude mains switcher. We added a couple of meaty power transistors and some extra smoothing capacitors and suddenly it went from 3W class A to 30W class B.
If simple T then its easy to put a loop in the headrest.
I have the same problem.
My current (NHS) hearing aids can be linked to my phone via Bluetooth.
The phone can then be used as a microphone by my passenger.
There is also a setting to enhance speech in noisy environments, which I’ve also found helpful when driving.
In-ear Earbuds will bluetooth to a phone and you can plug a microphone into the same phone
It might be worth looking at aircraft solutions.
These can use noise cancelling software . They do tend to plug into a built in radio system though
