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Hearing with Both Ears using a Single Music Link

by Neil Bauman, Ph.D.

A working woman explained:

I have just recently been fitted with a BTE Oticon Syncro hearing aid for one ear only. My question is that if I obtain a Single Music Link and assuming it will work not only with an M3 player, radio, CD/Walkman player, but also with a VOR micro cassette recorder, how do I use it at the same time using a headphone for my other ear?

I’ve been having big trouble listening/hearing my bosses dictations (using the VOR micro cassette recorder) and thought that the Single Music-Link may be a solution for me.

Yes, this could be an ingenious solution to your problem. The single Music Link will work with these devices as it is wired with a standard 1/8″ (3.5 mm) stereo plug. (Incidentally, both stereo channels are wired together so you won’t miss any sound on either stereo channel.)

I suggest you get a 1/8″ stereo Y adapter from Radio Shack (part #274-879; $5.99) and plug it into your stereo devices–eg MP3 player, cassette recorder, etc, and plug the single Music-Link into one jack of the “Y” and the headphones into the other one.

Now you will be able to hear via one headphone/ear bud in your good ear, and via the t-coil in your hearing aid in your bad ear.

Another solution, if your headphones are dynamic ones (meaning they are miniature loud speakers with voice coils in them) is to place the headphone over your hearing aid, switch it to t-coil mode and listen that way. You won’t get any feedback because the hearing aid microphone is switched off in t-coil mode.

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Loop Systems

Loop your home or meeting room. Discover how you can hear wonderfully clear sound again when listening to the TV/radio, etc, or when listening to a speaker at a meeting.

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Take Control of Your Tinnitus—Here’s How

If your ears ring, buzz, chirp, hiss, click or roar, you know just how annoying tinnitus can be. You do not have to put up with this racket for the rest of your life. This book teaches you many things you can do to help bring your tinnitus under your control so it no longer bothers you.

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Sounds Now Too Loud for You?

Hypersensitive to Sound front coverIf some (or all) normal sounds seem so loud they “blow the top of your head off”, or make you wince or jump, or cause you headaches or ear pain, or affect your balance, or result in fear or annoyance of sounds so you feel you have to avoid these sounds, this book is for you!

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Hearing Phantom Sounds?

When hard of hearing people begin hearing phantom voices or music, they immediately worry they are going crazy. It never crosses their minds that they are sane and are just experiencing Musical Ear syndrome.

To learn more about the strange phantom sounds of Musical Ear syndrome and what you can do about them, click here to read a comprehensive article about Musical Ear Syndrome.

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Neil G. Bauman, Ph.D.

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"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life [which also includes perfect hearing] through Jesus Christ our Lord." [Romans 6:23]

"But know this, in the last days perilous times will come" [2 Timothy 3:1]. "For there will be famines, pestilences, and [severe] earthquakes in various places" [Matthew 24:7], "distress of nations, the sea and the waves roaring"—tsunamis, hurricanes—Luke 21:25, but this is good news if you have put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, for "when these things begin to happen, lift up your heads [and rejoice] because your redemption draws near" [Luke 21:28].