Hi Raudrive,
Yes of course I can. You know my highs were totally away before my surgery. Since after activation my highs are back the first time since 14 years (of silence ). Now I have a full bandwidth again in hearing speech (with both ears, i.e. HA and CI in combo). Intelligibility has improved a little bit at the beginning and from mapping to mapping it is still getting better (from 55% to 85% with both ears). But you have to find out what has to be improved (eg what frequency range or the amount of how much an electrode has to be moved in frequency (shifting)).
Music however is still not the same as before. But for most known songs I can tell the name after the first few notes already. Meanwhile I love listening to drums solo what I hatet in earlier times. That sounds really sharp. My audiologist didn’t believe that I like this programm.
Next time (9th September) I will try to get a real music program with a higher(!) compression but less “wide” dynamic range. I want to get a static “dynamic range” (no changing compression rate) to hear all sounds, low and high volume at the same time. I will see.
Btw I am really excited so I am already planning my 2nd CI…
(Still keep in mind that I don’t hear anything above 2kHz with my HA ear!)
And it’s really a good idea to brew Oktoberfest beer since there is none this year