Comments on: Hearing “Stereo” with One Ear

By: Arnie

Arnie — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:52:42 +0000

we had exactly the same priblem with the Scansound headsets. loved the functionality but both the onebud and the much more expensive model broke within 5 months. looking fr an alternative that delivers stereo in one ear butvcant find anything.

By: Fergus McKinlay

Fergus McKinlay — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 01:25:12 +0000

Re: Scansound.
I bounght three sets of the 1-BUD Earphone Set. All three of them broke within a month. The bud casing on the first one seperated when I was trying to change the ear fitting when I just had it out of the box. I thought it might be a one off so I tried the next one. I was relatively careful with it but after about a week the second one broke in the ame way. The third lasted about 2 weeks more. If it was just one going wrong I would go back to them asking for a replacement but it looks like a design flaw to me. I don’t want a replacement now. But I would steer others away from this product. It sounded good but…
Disappointing as I only have one ear and was excited to try their product!

Fergus

By: Granville

Granville — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:43:25 +0000

All –
SSD (left) audiophile since age 6 (45 years ago)
I purchased the Scansound Deluxe bud to see how they compare to my Sony earbuds. While very good, we are still talking Mono and they simply do not compare in bass and brilliance.
Talked to Barry at Scansound (great guy) who is heading to the CES show in Vegas (this week 1/6/11) to find a manufacturer to produce two speaker channels into one bud – this is the only way we are going to get all the sound provided by having both channels into one ear.
Thanks Barry – will keep an eye/ear open for that upgrade – from all of us SSD’s – we thank you for your efforts and wish you great luck.
GS
Nipomo, CA

By: Terry proveau

Terry proveau — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:55:37 +0000

Have been using one of the ibud single ear units from http://www.scansound.com. I bought two different units from them. The gold/silver/white one sounds the best but I have not tried any of their new pro models. I will be ordering a pair soon. These single bud units from scansound are much clearer than the stereo to mono adapter, I don’t know why but I tried the adapter first and it takes much of the life out of the music, not so with the units I bought from scansound. I have been deaf in one ear for 7 years now and have very loud Tinnitus in my deaf ear. So.glad someone is making these earbuds.

By: mark brenner

mark brenner — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:29:33 +0000

http://www.scansound.com/1-Bud.htm#1BUDPRO

Earbuds for People who are Deaf in One Ear
and Those Who Want to Hear Stereo Music in One Ear
purchased from Barry arrived in a day or two i got two pairs and i think i’m going to order a pair or 2 of the buds that go over the air i have been deaf in one ear since about first grade theses earbuds are great

thanks

mark

By: Rich T

Rich T — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:16:21 +0000

^ second adapter should read 3.5mm mono jack to stereo socket

By: Rich T

Rich T — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:15:07 +0000

The solution I finally ended up with was to get two adapters.

A 3.5mm stereo plug to mono socket adapter

then put into that a 3.5mm mono jack to 3.5mm plug adapter.

This way you get a (combined stereo) mono signal going to both headphones… you can then either choose to cut the cable you don’t need (saves battery power) or leave it as is.

By: Charles Kolsrud

Charles Kolsrud — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:01:58 +0000

Deaf in right ear since birth and have, for the past few years, used the head-phone jack on my TV.

Didn’t take long to notice something wrong – whatever was on the right channel I lost and, after a while, this was driving me nuts.

Tripped over the Scansound ear buds mentioned above by Barry Leeper and they did the trick so, if you’re deaf in one ear and need an in- or on-ear device, go to scansound. Prices for even their most sophisticated earphones are very, very reasonable.

By: Neil Hodgson

Neil Hodgson — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:57:09 +0000

Further to my comment above, I purchased the adapter and used it with my regular stereo earbuds. All of the blended sound is directed to the Left earbud, (and none to the right), which happens to be perfect for my hearing condition (Deafness in one ear). So for me, there is no need to purchase the single mono earbud.
One alert, however – - in Canada, the Source (formerly Radio Shack) are no longer restocking the adapter. I was fortunate enough to purchase their last one ($.99).

By: Neil Hodgson

Neil Hodgson — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:57:03 +0000

Hi;

I believe that the stereo-to-mono adapter as described by Dr. Neil is all that is needed in conjunction with ‘normal’ stereo earbuds. I presume that the normal earbuds will simply direct mono output to both buds once being plugged into the adapter. Even though one bud isn’t heard, the combined signal should still be heard by the one ear that works.