1- Better Ability to Tell the Direction of
Sound
This is called localization. In a
social gathering, for example, localization allows you to hear from which direction
someone is speaking to you. Also, localization helps you determine from which direction
traffic is coming or where your children or grandchildren are playing. Simply put,
with binaural hearing, you will better detect where sounds are coming from in every
situation.
2-
Improved Understanding of Speech in Quiet and in Noise
Better understanding of speech. By wearing two hearing instruments rather
than one, selective listening is more easily achieved. This means that your brain
can focus on the conversation you want to hear. Research shows that people wearing
two hearing devices routinely understand speech and conversation significantly better
than people wearing one hearing device.
Better understanding in group and noisy situations. Research
also shows that speech intelligibility
is improved in difficult listening situations when wearing two hearing instruments.
3-
Wider Hearing Range
A voice barely heard at 10 feet with
one ear can be heard up to 40 feet away with two ears.
4- Hearing is Less Tiring and Listening in
More Pleasant
More binaural hearing instrument wearers
report that listening and participating in conversation is more enjoyable with two
instruments, instead of just one. This is because they do not have to strain to
hear with the better ear. Thus, binaural hearing can help make life more relaxing.
5-
Smoother Tone and Sound Quality
When you listen to a stereo system, you use both speakers to get the smoothest,
sharpest, most natural sound quality. The same can be said of hearing instruments.
By wearing two hearing devices, you increase your hearing range from 180 degrees
reception with just one instrument, to 360 degrees. This greater range provides
a better sense of balance and sound quality. Binaural
hearing generally requires less volume than hearing with only one ear,
giving a more natural sound to voices and music.
6-
Cushions Loud Sounds
Sudden loud sounds lose much of their
jarring effect when divided by two ears.
Additionally, a lower volume control setting is required with two
hearing instruments than is required with one hearing instrument. The result is
a better tolerance of loud sounds.
7-
Better Sound Identification
Many noises which sound almost exactly alike when heard with one ear can be identified
easily when heard with two ears.
8-
Both Ears Stay Active
Research has shown that when only one hearing device is worn, that ear tends to
take over all of the hearing. In
time, the unused ear tends to lose its ability to hear and understand.
This is clinically called the auditory deprivation effect. Wearing two hearing
instruments keeps both ears active.
9- Balanced Hearing
Binaural hearing results in a feeling
of balanced reception of sound, also known as the stereo effect, whereas monaural
hearing creates an unusual feeling of sounds being heard only in one ear.
10- Tinnitus Relief
About 50% of people with ringing in
their ears report improvement when wearing hearing instruments. If a person with
tinnitus wears a hearing device in only one ear, there will still be ringing in
the ear that does not have a hearing instrument.
11- Reduced Feeback and Whistling
Because wearing two hearing instruments requires a lower volume control setting
compared to wearing one device, the chances of getting feedback from your hearing
instruments is reduced.
12- Consumer Preference and Customer Satisfaction
Consumer preference.
An
overwhelming majority of consumers who have hearing loss in both ears, choose two
hearing instruments over one, when given the choice to hear binaurally.
Customer satisfaction. Research with more than
5,000 consumers with hearing loss in both ears demonstrated that people fit with two
hearing instruments are more satisfied than people fit with one hearing instrument.
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