November 19, 2012 | Amplisound Hearing Care Centers | Hearing Aids News
Did you ever see a person on the sidelines of a televised football game holding and aiming a satellite dish shaped device toward the players in a huddle on the field? Or perhaps at a golf match where a person holds a long pole and aims it at the tee while the players hit there […]
It is called binaural listening; bi, for two; and aural, for the sense of hearing. The human ear is the most advanced stereophonic wonder known to man. It provides the listener with space perception, depth perception and balance. Hearing does not happen in your ears, it happens in your brain. Your brain requires reliable information […]
November 13, 2012 | Amplisound Hearing Care Centers | Hearing Aids News
One of the most common problems associated with wearing hearing aids is the sensation of ‘occlusion’ often referred to by hearing aid wearers as sounding like their head is ‘in a barrel’. Try this for yourself by simply placing your fingers in your ears and counting to 10. Can you hear it? In the past […]
November 11, 2012 | Amplisound Hearing Care Centers | Tinnitus Articles
Tinnitus, either way you pronounce it, is annoying enough for some people to seek help. Tinnitus, which is derived from tinnire, Latin for “to tinkle or to ring like a bell,” is the term that refers to the perception of head noise when none is present externally. This mystifying “head noise” is often described as ringing in […]