Recent content by ploughna

I use a small, disc-shaped Jabra speaker with USB and Bluetooth. It sounds much better than the computer’s built-in speakers, providing a more mellow sound.

I’ve recently had to deal with this situation—I have reactive tinnitus that worsens with continuous ambient noise. For example, when I’m driving or on a plane, I need to use earplugs. However, this creates the opposite problem, as the noise isolation also causes my tinnitus to ramp up. It’s...

I would love to be wrong, but I do not think any weakening of the FDA will make much of a difference. I would love to see Lenire, with their fresh influx of funding, $10 million on top of the previous $33 million, license the technology from the University of Michigan for a next generation...

I've put it out of my mind and won't be holding my breath—if it happens, it happens. Any of the other approaches discussed in other threads on Tinnitus Talk are likely to come to market sooner. Everything that could be discussed has already been covered, so we might as well close this thread...

I've got a Baratza, too. After many, many years of using a cheap spinning blade type, I don't know how I survived. It was one of my better kitchen appliance purchases — there's no going back!

I've also been inquiring about this. The way they explained it to me, and I don't quite understand it fully, is that you don't need to suffer from migraines for it to work but that tinnitus involves some of the same pathways in the brain as migraines. Therefore, migraine drug treatments can...

I wouldn't be surprised if Auricle were leveraging the expertise of their development/manufacturing partner who also provides FDA approval support, in2being. It would make sense for Auricle to use in2being given their familiarity with the details of the device and experience with the process...

Admittedly, it's a sample size of one, but unfortunately, this didn't do anything for me. Maybe the weird sensation of sounds coming from the wrong direction could provide a distraction for people with mild/moderate tinnitus, but I'm not in that category. Anyway, not to take from the...

Looking at their website, they've listed 25 potential disorders that their KCC2 development might address, but no mention of tinnitus :( Another case of off-label experimentation if it ever comes to market?

It's been a while since I worked on Bluetooth audio. Still, I do know many Bluetooth codecs are available, with different levels of audio quality and latency depending on the type of compression/decompression used. It's not so much the latency itself that matters (this can range from 30-200 ms)...

I won't be surprised if you're right—I'm only trying it because it's low-risk, and I have some time on my hands right now. I'll update you in a couple of weeks. However, I don't think cross hearing aids are the same thing. I thought they re-route sound from the side of the bad ear to the good...

I bought the same headphones as used in the study - Peltor Tactical 300 and disassembled them to get access to the microphones and circuit board: Desolder the wires from left and right microphones from the left and right PCB Attach extension wires to the microphones Solder the wires from the...

Here goes nothing - my weekend project! Very weird walking around with these on - my own footsteps coming from the wrong direction and need to be very careful with traffic :)

For those interested, the patent application is quite informative. See the attached file. In addition to the simple method used in the trial, where the left and right microphones were reversed, he talks about further refinements to only reverse frequencies in the range of the person's tinnitus...