I just read your posts on another thread. I’m not clear if you tried the exceed or if you tried cochlear implants. Everything I’ve read about the latter is that they are bad for music.
I have spent a huge amount of time doing everything I can to help my wife hear music. I’m a classical pianist myself and the greatest music of Bach, Beethoven and Schubert is profoundly important for both our spiritual lives. The current set up which she listens to with the Phonak – because I blew out headphones and a normal speakers trying to get them loud enough — is by mounting a powerful car speaker in the big box of the normal speaker, sticking an additional preamp in-line with the regular amplifier, and then she puts her head right next to the speaker. I’ve done essentially the same thing in our truck. I’d be happy to provide you with more detail if you want to try anything like that.
I just found this in physicist Brian Greene’s new book Until the End of Time (not great): "Music has a remarkable power to create such profound connection . . . A moving description comes from Helen Keller who [when Beethoven’s ninth was played over the radio] placed her hands on the diaphragm of an uncovered radio speaker and through the vibrations was able to sense the music, to experience what she called the “immortal Symphony,” even distinguish individual instruments. [She said] “When the human voice leapt up trilling from the surge of harmony, I recognized them instantly as voices. I felt the chorus grow more exultant, more ecstatic, upcurving swift and flame like, until my heart almost stood still”.
And then, speaking to sounds that touch the spirit, music that reverberates to eternity, she concludes: “as I listened, with darkness and melody, shadow and sound filling all the room, I could not help remembering that the great composer who poured forth such a flood of sweetness into the world was deaf like myself. I marveled at the power of his quenchless Spirit by which out of his pain he brought such joy for others — and there I sat, feeling with my hand the magnificent Symphony which broke like a sea upon the silent shores of his soul and mine.” [makes me weep just to write this.]