Help me & my team design a headset for The HOH for better auditory experiences

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Hi everyone,

My name is Aaryan, and I’m leading the development of a pair of headphones designed specifically for the Hard of Hearing community. This project is a collaboration with Logitech, and we’re focused on creating something that truly addresses the needs and challenges faced by HOH individuals.

To make sure we’re heading in the right direction, I would love to hear directly from you! I’m seeking volunteers for short interviews to share your experiences and insights on what could make headphones more effective or comfortable for daily use.

Whether it’s difficulties you’ve faced with traditional headphones, specific features you wish they had, or even general thoughts on assistive technology, your input would be invaluable to our design process.

If you’re interested, feel free to comment below or DM me, and we can set up a time that works best for you.

Thank you in advance for your time and insights!

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Are you talking in addition to hearing aids or instead of hearing aids?
I wear over the ear headphones over my aids at times without any issues as it is.
I have TOZO HT2 that aren’t expensive and have a great app for setting the equalizer to benefit my needs. And yes sometimes I use the headphones without my aids amd have a separate equalizer settings for those times too.
I honestly don’t believe I need any other headphones.

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We are in our initial research phases right now and are open to everything; we haven’t made that decision yet.

that being said, I would love to know more about how you use both these setups during a regular day and why you would use one vs another.

Thank you cvkemp!

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I use the headphones over my aids when I am using a device to stream from that doesn’t support streaming to my aids. Tablets, Fire Tablets, laptops, and also if I want to stream say from my devices in a noisy location, normally if my wife is watching TV and I am more interested in listening to my ebooks. The TOZO HT2 headphones have noise canceling capacity. The times I just use the headphones without my aids is late at night or early morning when I want to listening to my ebooks andnI haven’t gotten up to put my aids on. I listen to or read well over 120 books each year.

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Thank you for the insight! Super helpful!

Would you be willing to have a short conversation about your experience?
We feel like it would help us in building a better product.

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I’d love to chat. DM me and we can setup time.

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Great! can you reach out to me on my Linkedin? https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaryanthaker/

Or if you could tell me where I would be able to reach out to you directly, since I am not able to send a DM.

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I always use headphones directly (without HAs). The main problem is that most of these, when used with mp3 players or smartphones, have totally inadequate output volumes (for people like me). I believe such output devices are legally crippled, here in the EU, to protect those with normal hearing.

So I spent ages looking for headphones that produce decent output volumes. This was trial and error, because I could not find how max output volume relates to headphones specs.

In the end, I found Scosche SHP451M-GY lobeDOPE headphones (no longer for sale, sadly) head and shoulders above the rest- still have a bunch of those here…

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