I haven’t posted in a long time, since before this forum converted from the previous owner. I found stuartr’s post (above) after searching for “3DME”. I was specifically looking for more information on: ASI 3DME ACTIVE AMBIENT IN-EAR MONITORS. Stuartr gave a good description of them in his post.
I’ve been a non-professional guitarist, usually electric, for about 55 years. Over the last 10 years I’ve developed some fairly significant high-frequency loss, causing challenges understanding speech. To
deal with that I’ve been wearing Rexton Trax 42 BTE HAs since they first became available at Costco.
The HAs are very helpful with speech, thankfully, but cause serious degradation in my ability to enjoy music; recorded or live. I have a music-optimized program for the HAs, which is an improvement, but is not satisfactory.
I’d also recently read (here) a reference to “Headphone accommodations” with Apple AirPods. What intrigued me was the ability to customize the sound based on the user’s audiogram. I’ve been waiting for that feature for years. However, I don’t use Apple’s phones or other products (although I still have an ancient IPod).
Then, today, I watched a YouTube video of a pro-guitarist raving about ASI 3DME ACTIVE AMBIENT IN-EAR MONITORS. I’ll post the link to that. Now I’m interested in learning more about the product. I’m hoping that the concept of using its built-in equalizer may allow it to have a similar function as Headphone Accommodation with AirPods.
This seems like an approach I’ve been dreaming of. I was hoping I’d find more discussion about it (or anything similar) here, but stuartr’s post is all I found. I’d be very interested to hear what others think about this idea.
Here’s the Youtube link: I’ve NEVER liked In Ear Monitors… UNTIL NOW!
[edit] I should emphasize, as stuartr did, that I wouldn’t be expecting this approach to offer the speech-processing capabilities of true HAs, but I am very interested in the possibility of hearing musical fidelity with some compensation (equalization) for my high-frequency loss. The added protection against damaging sound-levels would be a bonus.