I would think that turning up the volume would increase the volume at all frequencies by the same amount. But with my Starkey Muse IQ 2400, it seems like the highest frequencies get amplified far more than the lower frequencies, creating much annoying noise? Is this an issue with all brands of HA? Why can’t the electronics amplify at all frequencies in a uniform way?
Perhaps your earmolds or domes simply have large vents and are quite leaky.
In that case, when you turn the volume up, most of the bass escapes outside.
Yeah the volume is increased as per your audogram, so some sounds will increase more then other’s, but it’s evenly across your audogram by a set dB.
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Absolutely the bass will not increase much with a leaky fit.
But with a lot of modern hearing aids it actually IS the case that when you turn up the volume it sharpens the sound. This trend started a few years ago with the idea that people knock up the volume when they want to hear speech better and emphasizing consonants improves speech clarity. It was popular, and while we used to have the heads up and the ability to turn that gain shaping off, it’s sometimes just baked in now. It was probably also a successful approach because a huge number of people are regularly underfit in the highs and it helps to situationally overcome this.
I don’t do enough Starkey to know for sure that it’s NOT doing this.
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