New earplugs won't amplify the sound of your own voice
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New earplugs won't amplify the sound of your own voice
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#2I need earplugs that won't amplify my tinnitus. Or, better yet, cancel it.
Re: New earplugs won't amplify the sound of your own voice
#3I need earplugs that won't amplify my tinnitus. Or, better yet, cancel it.
I feel like that is what these will do for me, if they work as promised. When I sing in choir(etc), I can't wear regular earplugs, because my own voice triggers my tinnitus.
Re: New earplugs won't amplify the sound of your own voice
#4I need earplugs that won't amplify my tinnitus. Or, better yet, cancel it.
I feel like that is what these will do for me, if they work as promised. When I sing in choir(etc), I can't wear regular earplugs, because my own voice triggers my tinnitus.
Why would you want to wear earplugs while singing?
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#5I need earplugs that won't amplify my tinnitus. Or, better yet, cancel it.
unfortunately masking peripheral stimuli won’t necessarily do much for reducing central percepts of non-peripheral stimuli. Tinnitus isn’t a sound, exactly…
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like that is what these will do for me, if they work as promised. When I sing in choir(etc), I can't wear regular earplugs, because my own voice triggers my tinnitus.
Why would you want to wear earplugs while singing?
If you're regularly doing ensemble stuff, you can get hearing damage from the consistent loud volume. Thus, earplugs.
It's maybe less significant for choir compared to e.g. rock band with amps or wind band with tons of brass, but you can still get ear damage. (That's where I got my tinnitus from lol)
They do make specialized earplugs for music that allow some amount of pass-through, and don't isolate as much.
Re: New earplugs won't amplify the sound of your own voice
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like that is what these will do for me, if they work as promised. When I sing in choir(etc), I can't wear regular earplugs, because my own voice triggers my tinnitus.
Why would you want to wear earplugs while singing?
I play drums for fun. The vocalists usually wear earplugs too. Because they’ll get hearing damage if they don’t. Instruments can be loud. Look up “Earasers” if interested, they’re the ones I use. They work in a way that music sounds reasonable, but still protects your ears.
Re: New earplugs won't amplify the sound of your own voice
#8I need earplugs that won't amplify my tinnitus. Or, better yet, cancel it.
unfortunately masking peripheral stimuli won’t necessarily do much for reducing central percepts of non-peripheral stimuli. Tinnitus isn’t a sound, exactly…
Has there been research on this?
Even if the cause of tinnitus is neural, or damage to the inner ear, perhaps it could be altered with bone conduction speakers? On the premise that any change to status quo might cause the neurons to completely re-evaluate their duties...
These two ([1] [2]; 2002 and 2020) say that bone-conducting and air-conducting transducers offer the same relief.
Since everyone, including this [3] seems to bury the results, I'm guessing that sound therapy isn't very effective.
[1] https://e-asr.org/upload/pdf/asr-200012.pdf (interestingly, this is Korean with English headings and captions. Is that common?)
[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/1499202020907718...
[3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/204062232095642...
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#9>New Earplugs Won’t Amplify the Sound of Your Own Voice
I think part of it is that most of us speak more loudly to others when we can't hear them very well, e.g. when wearing headphones or on a mobile in a train
Re: New earplugs won't amplify the sound of your own voice
#10>New Earplugs Won’t Amplify the Sound of Your Own Voice I think part of it is that most of us speak more loudly to others when we can't hear them very well, e.g. when wearing headphones or on a mobile in a train
No, it's just a chronic lack of sidetone in these devices.
Sidetone is the small amount of feedback in the earpiece as you speak into the microphone. The telephone company figured this out 100 years ago and then, somehow, we totally dropped it when mobile phones came along. We've been shouting into microphones ever since.