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Get your ears checked!!!!

I didn't mention this in my earlier post, as I don't like thinking about it, but back in '96 I was testing out a prototype subwoofer's maximum SPL output @ 40 Hz. The little bastard really loaded well into the room and it damaged my right eardrum. Now if I play music too loud, or if whatever I'm listening to is creating a lot of pressure in the room (live trumpet for instance), I get the sensation of both ears compressing and then the right ear will start distorting horribly. I always recover from it, but can't help but wonder if my hearing has been further degraded as a result. :(
 
My Dad suffered from Meniers disease , he worked for the railroad for 45
years. His vertigo became so bad back in the early 70's that he would vomit and
get chills, he was worried that he would not be able to continue working (jumping
on and off trains with vertigo is not a good thing). He went to a specialist in
Sarasota, Florida and had an experimental (at the time) surgery that the doctor
said had helped some people but there was no guarantee. The surgery transformed
his life even tho it left him partially deaf in one ear, he has had no more vertigo
since and is now 80.
 
When I started to get into hifi stuff, I became very paranoid about my hearing because I can hear a ringing in my right ear (and I used to have some pretty ear abusive listening habits). I've been to an audiologist 3 times this year, and an ear/nose/throat doctor twice, and to my surprise they all say my ears are perfectly fine. No one can explain why the right one rings, but it's a big relief to know that I'm pretty much hearing everything I was supposed to. Last time, my audiologist suggested I get checked out for TMJ, because it seems I grind my jaws all the time. Constant headaches.

Anyways, I try to relax and ignore that spectre of hearing loss when it seems the soundstage is moving over to the left on my headphones....
 
fropiler said:
I never got around to doing this, so I can't speak from experience, but it seems to work for some people.

http://www.earinfosite.org/em.htm
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A little thick. . . . . .
:loser:
The Epley Maneuvers, also known as the Canalith Repositioning Procedure (CRP), are designed to treat benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) through induced out-migration of free-moving pathological densities in the endolymph of a semicircular canal, using timed head maneuvers and applied vibration. In simpler terms, canaliths (calcium carbonate crystals) are normally attached atop a membrane in the otolith organ (or gravity center) of the inner ear. These crystals can break off for various reasons, most commonly, injury or disease, and migrate into a semicircular canal. Then, when the head position is changed, the canaliths shift, abnormally stimulating the nerve sensor (cupula) of the affected semicircular canal and creating a sensation of movement (vertigo). In treatment, the head is maneuvered so as to guide the canaliths (also referred to as otoliths or cupuloliths, depending on their placement) back though the labyrinth to where they originated. To facilitate this process, the canaliths can be tracked by observing the eye movements they cause, and by applying an oscillator to the skull. In most medical facilities, this maneuvering is done by hand with the patient lying on a table. The Portland Otologic Clinic uses special automated equipment (the OMNIAX Positioning System), which positions the patient and allows observation of eye movement via miniature video cameras. This provides an advantage in diagnosing and treating difficult or complicated cases, including variations of BPPV.
 
"Diode, cathode, electrode, overload, generator, oscillator...make a circuit with me."

Epley maneuvers eh? Right out of the script of "The Road to Wellville" IMO.
 
Fro, I think he means hard to swallow.
Tilt the head to allow the crystals to find their way back to original placement...c'mon.
The oscillator got me laughing.
 
Balthazarr said:
Fro, I think he means hard to swallow.
Tilt the head to allow the crystals to find their way back to original placement...c'mon.
The oscillator got me laughing.
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Well, I guess I better notify the Neurologist that referred me to the Local Minneapolis physician that specializes in the procedure.

The Mayo Clinics website might want to remove any reference to Epley as well.
Geez, you better not do a google on Epley either. You'll be laughing so hard it hurts. :rolleyes:
 
I don't know. Are these people convential ENT specialists? What kind of "oscillator" are they talking about? Probably nothing like what we use to test circuits with. It may be worthwhile to find out what someone in that field has to say about it.

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Beat me to the punch!

Yeah..."what he said"!
 
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We had an old janitor who was deaf as a stone at the plant where I work, & we decided everybody needed hearing tests. When they told Harmon he was gonna get a hearing test, he went, "Steerin' test? Steerin' test ? I don't need no steerin' test ! I drive just fine !" -Sandy G.
 
Funny, I'm going for testing first week of November. Family insisted, tired of hearing me say, "What was that?"
 
I'm no golden ear, far from it. However, I am happy to say that I can hear very well. I can hear delicate rushing sounds, triangles and other high frequency percussion. Midrange I can also hear pretty well, Joan Baez's Soprano is a good test for this. Sometimes I feel her voice can be quite penetrating when she sings real high :-)

Lower registers are also quite good.

Haven't had a test, perhaps if I did I would find they are far from perfect. Still, with no ringing, distortion or other anomalities, I am happy with them.

I've never worked in noisy environments and only used Walkmans very briefly in the early 80s. I have never been a fan of headphones. I have attended only a single loud "rave" party around six years ago. It was the loudest I have ever been. This is the only high risk to my hearing I've experienced.
 
My ears are in such bad shape!! I can't hear the high end of music very well, so I like speakers like D-9's HPM-150's, you know.... Music you can feel and not have to worry too much about what you hear. When I was kid I liked REALLY LOUD rock, and treated myself to it quite often. I enlisted into the Army as an infantryman, and have been exposed to severe ear damaging noises, lot's of explosions, gunfire, and aircraft. Now as an additional duty I am a firearms instructor for the Fed's, but I do everything possible to take care of my ears.... TOO LATE!!!!! In my defense though, it's kind of hard to stop the battle, to install a set of ear plugs. It should be in the geneva convention, that a cease fire can be called to dawn hearing protection. :D

Moral of the story is.... Take care of your hearing! Yungin', Uncooked, and all the other yungsters on here, do it now, so you don't wind up like some of us older dudes that can't hear those nice high's coming out of that killer gear. :dammit:

Ron
 
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