@Um_bongo: Thank you very much for taking the time to explain this.
As time passes with my new Mores being in my ears 17-18 hours a day, I am coming to an ever greater appreciation of the role the brain and memory of sounds plays in the plastic reconfiguration of how we perceive incoming auditory signals.
I deprived my auditory cortex of input for 6 years, and my target shooting scores attest to the fact that my vision took over a large part of the unused turf. (I’m curious to see whether or not my visual acuity with open sights will diminish as my sense of hearing reclaims more of the neuronal function it surrendered to vision due to sensory deprivation.) Suffice it to say that my BrainHearing is improving the longer I wear my hearing devices.
I’ve listened to several of Dr Donald Shum’s lectures on AudiologyOnline, and I think he and Oticon are generally right: if the hearing instruments can send good quality signals up the auditory nerve, the brain has exquisite capacities for decoding even the imperfect neural code transmitted by a damaged ear.
I’m experiencing first hand the significant improvement in my hearing as my auditory cortex retakes its ground and (as @Blacky has suggested) brain learning reintegrates the memory of sounds past with the real input of sounds present, as rebalanced and amplified by my Oticon More1s.
So, I understand your explanation - perhaps not with perfect scientific accuracy - but I catch the drift. Quality is paramount, one BA receiver can deliver it, more than one can complicate it, and bass sounds are still the bugaboo.
[PS: I learned as a performing musician that bass is as much perceived through sympathetic vibrations within the body as it is heard through the ears, but that’s a musing for another occasion.]
Thanks for replying to my post!