The sound of the music is very different between Bluetooth streaming and car audio. I can hear the piano clearly in the car, but the music sounds very flat when streamed. I asked the audiologist to make adjustments, and she modified the fine-tuning curve (raising the mid and high frequencies), but the sound is still different from what I hear in the car. Is it normal for streamed music to sound this way?
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@mayuna to a certain extend it can be normal but heavily depends on your ear coupling (open vs. closed fitting). Audiologist can advice here as the options relate to your hearing loss, unless you go for special technologies such as ActiveVent which gives you the richt streaming quality even for “open” fittings.
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I’m no audi, but my question would be: What’s the sound system in your CAR? F’instance, if you’re driving around in a Porsche, you’ll have Burmester - not shabby! Compare that to what you’re streaming audio on cellphone-wise with your Spheres…
I think my Phonak Lumity Life aids (power domes, not custom-fitted) sound very good streaming music on my Android Samsung Flip-4 phone.
Also consider the source of music: is it highly-compressed MP3, CD, service like ROON or Quboz, or direct off Astell Kern device?
Perhaps others more knowledgeable can chime in here.
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I think my Rexton’s streaming music sounds great but I did DIY tweak it both the music program and the streaming program
It needs a lot of tweaking and effort to program the music streaming in a satisfying way but you’ll get there.
First of all, make sure that, with your kind of loss, you have closed moulds or power domes.
Then focus on a song (possibly arranged with many instruments) that you knew well when you could hear better, and write down the differences compared to your memories and what you were expecting to hear.
Finally, report those differences to your Audi,
It will take multiple sessions but you’ll get there because your hearing aids can provide a satisfying Bluetooth music experience, especially if you claim you can hear music well enough in another contexts.
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This has always really confused me about Phonak. They make such a big deal about their BT streaming, but BT streaming is the only program to my knowledge where you can’t use the app to eQ the sound. If you could, you could make manual adjustments via the app to your own music and the whole experience would be that much more sattisfying. I really do not understand why this hasn’t been implemented. For something like Widex you can do this easily and you can adjust the music to your dome type and your particular listening preference by tweaking the bass mids and trebble. I personally find the streaming quality terrible and very middle heavy, but I want to be able to adjust it myself not sit in an office with the audiologist doing this.
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