I’ve read all the stuff about how music programs should be set up, and worked with my audiologist on this. The problem I’m having is I attend a lot of things like masterclasses and courses on music history. These involve music being played live or recorded, interspersed with speech as the instructor comments or provides suggestions to the instrumentalist to experiment with. I find the live music too loud so I have to turn the music program down, but the speech is unintelligible if I leave my music program on while the person is speaking. So I’m constantly having to switch between General and Music, and adjusting sound volume each time. This means I’m getting beeps as I make the program change and clicks as I adjust the volume, and these interfere with my ability to hear the first few seconds of speech or playing. Besides, it’s a royal pain having to switch back and forth continuously for up to 2 hours at a time.
I’m currently trialing Oticon Reals, but had similar problems when trialing Widex Moment Sheers and Phonak Lumity. Any suggestions for how to deal with this particular type of situation?