How to Hack your Hearing 👂🎧🙉: Five Ways to Optimise How You Hear

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How to Hack your Hearing 👂🎧🙉: Five Ways to Optimise How You Hear

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I have trouble hearing in my left ear, so I’m always searching for innovative ways to “hack my hearing” so it doesn’t interfere with my work or my everyday life. I also live on a very busy street in Manhattan, and the ambient noise often disrupts my focus, and can make it hard to get good-quality audio in my videos.
Luckily, audio technology has come a long way in the past few years. And not just for people like me with hearing trouble - there’s TONS of new tech out there for anyone interested in optimising how they hear.
In this video, I summarise my favourite ways to hack your hearing, which you can use to get a better audio experience in all sorts of situations. Here are the products I mention in the video:
‘Here’ Earphones www.amazon.com/Here-One-Wirel... earphones that can selectively reduce certain noises and enhance others.
Bose noise-cancelling headphones www.amazon.com/Bose-QuietComf... headphones that use standard noise-cancelling technology.
focus@will www.amazon.com/Focus-At-Will-... a music subscription service that finds the best music to improve your focus.
Noise gate: info coming soon: www.audacityteam.org/
Adobe Audition www.amazon.com/Adobe-Audition... professional audio workstation for precision mixing, finishing and editing.
Sennheiser RS 195 RF wireless headphones www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-RS-... headphone system with many adjustable settings, including balance control for those with hearing difficulties in one ear.

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@music4lifesux 7 жыл бұрын

This is extremely relieving, Benny. Although I don't struggle with hearing loss per say, I have a weird inability to understand what people are saying half the time, even in English frequently I just hear gibberish (I have to watch tv/movies with subtitles). This makes learning Spanish quite difficult, but the fact that you did it with actual hearing loss is very inspiring.

@juanmelendezmartinez5920 5 жыл бұрын

it happen to me too!! wao!! you really explaining in good english to me!! i got you!! because is pretty much what's happen to me in denmark, i had learn several language before danish but the phonetic in danish absorbe me totally!! making me doubt if I was smart enough to continue living here!! ( the fACT is danish = norwegian and some swedish + more dialects in jutland region) is something like spanish can understand some portuguese and italian haaa! good point!

@fluntimes 7 жыл бұрын

Great vid Benny. I too have reduced hearing in my left ear so these recommendations are very relevant. Amazing what tech is out there in the audio arena.

@karlawanjirunjathi5763 7 жыл бұрын

such useful information! thank you!

@erilinapolly 7 жыл бұрын

It's a topic I would have never expected from you, but it is so great to listen to you sharing your experience which can be really helpful for other people. I have never heard of the technologies you have told about, and they can be really useful even though I don't have problems with my hearing. So thank you a lot for the video!

@irishpolyglot 7 жыл бұрын

+erilinapolly My pleasure! Happy to share some solutions to unique problems that I've come across with others, so they can get the same benefits! I think a lot of this video can genuinely be useful even if you have perfect hearing - glad you enjoyed it!

@juanmelendezmartinez5920 5 жыл бұрын

thanks alot for this awesome video!! i truly believe this is happening to me! i had been reading about and resources on this topic and found something similarity (electrosensitivity and tinnitus.) again thanks alot!

@charlottesimplycooking90 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video Benny. Me too I have hearing loss, I am totally deaf in my left ear and I also face some difficulties to follow a conversation when I'm in a noisy environment. Those earphones sound intresting and maybe they could help me, I will surely check them out.

@Alex-qn5qn 7 жыл бұрын

Well it's very interesting to know that someone has the same problem that I have, but in my case it's the right ear that has hearing loss. Thanks for the video maybe this tips could help me someday.

@irishpolyglot 7 жыл бұрын

I hope they do! Thanks for watching 😉

@nendoakuma7451 7 жыл бұрын

I'm amazed at all the technologies you are using to cope with your problems.

@irishpolyglot 7 жыл бұрын

+Nendo Akuma My background is in electronic engineering, so I always think of some kind of a technical way to solve problems before anything else. Hopefully you found it interesting! :)

@sukubo313 6 жыл бұрын

(totally off-topic) That's interesting that you are/were an electrical engineer who is also a polygot. My background is in computer science, but for as long as I can remember, I've thought that if I could have any one superhero power, it would be to speak every language fluently.. At various points I've studied or tried to learn at least 10 different languages. (Not including computer languages. ;-)) Looking back, computer science was the wrong fit for me entirely, and I would have been much happier in just about any other field. Would you say the same about EE?

@madhavithakur1133 6 жыл бұрын

Sir , what r u the ways through which we can stop noise entering into our ears

@misemefein100 7 жыл бұрын

Benny... I'm from Louth... I'm thinking of making my own version of Michel Thomas for Irish.... I too lived in Spain and now speak Spanish but my Irish is brutal....any tips? you from baileboro?

@baongoc9842 4 жыл бұрын

Hi i have a question When using noise cancelling earphones, does it make your hearing worst when you wear it?

@gerometorribio2127 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Benny. I suffered hearing loss, especially in my right ear, in my early 20s when I served on a Navy ship and was assigned to the engine rooms. I'll look into the special headphones. I do pretty well in face to face conversations, but it's harder to "hear" foreign language sounds in audio only.

@eliastoribio1459 6 жыл бұрын

Good video

@quickjumpingfoxes 7 жыл бұрын

Interesting stuff; sorry to hear about your hearing loss - I have similar problems, especially in restaurants. FYI here is a review of '"Here" and other noise-canceling earphones. www.cnet.com/products/here-one/review/

@billyriedel6449 7 жыл бұрын

I had no idea you had hearing loss, I am hard of hearing and wear hearing aids. Have you ever considered getting a hearing aid?

@irishpolyglot 7 жыл бұрын

+Billy Riedel Well, my "half deaf" is only in one ear and according to ear tests it's around 60% of normal hearing (although I can't hear higher and lower frequencies well at all). But since my right ear is better (not perfect, but 80-90%), I can manage most of the time. It's only in noisy areas I struggle. A hearing aid would be overkill for the level that I have. It's why I mentioned the 'smart hearing aid' here - reducing the noise while not reducing human voices makes it way easier for me :) After years of this issue getting worse and worse, I had surgery recently, so things may be getting better for me - time will tell!

@billyriedel6449 7 жыл бұрын

Whatever works for you. Did you have this issue growing up?

@irishpolyglot 7 жыл бұрын

+Billy Riedel Yes, unfortunately. It developed in my early teens. Fortunately it's not nerve damage, but something else (the ENT doctor has explained it to me, but I didn't understand it so well :P ), which is why I went for surgery this year after spending the last 2 years trying several other things that didn't work and a CAT scan showed a potential issue. Constantly travelling for most of my life made it very hard to get consistent follow-ups after checks for the "obvious" issues and until I had a base and good health insurance, getting a CAT scan would have been very difficult to arrange over my entire life other than emergency health insurance for an accident.

@billyriedel6449 7 жыл бұрын

Ah, ok. I have been hard of hearing my whole life

@GabesHacks 7 жыл бұрын

Why would hearing aids be overkill? By your description, it seems like you're a perfect candidate. Hearing aids nowadays can be programmed to only amplify the frequencies you have trouble with, at the volume you need. They're pretty awesome. They can be pretty small too. I've even seen one that fits entirely in the ear canal. Although generally, the smaller they are, the more expensive they are. My two youngest kids are deaf and got cochlear implants at 12 months, but they started out with hearing aids. When they got the hearing aids, the audiologist programmed them to match their audiogram (as best they could for someone with profound loss).