{"id":17976,"date":"2019-05-24T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17976"},"modified":"2019-05-24T08:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T15:30:04","slug":"bose-hearphones-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2019\/05\/24\/bose-hearphones-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bose Hearphones notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I see that it was about a year ago that I first tried out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bose.com\/en_us\/products\/wellness\/conversation_enhancing_headphones\/hearphones.html\">Bose Hearphone<\/a>s: directional sound-canceling\/amplifying earbuds. Specifically, you can use them to turn up the volume on the world around you, and\/or to cancel sound coming from certain directions. I most often have them set so that sound from in front of me is amplified, and sound from behind me and to my sides is canceled; that makes it much easier for me to hear the people I\u2019m talking with when we\u2019re in a loud environment.<\/p>\r\n<p>I still like the Hearphones. They\u2019re imperfect in a variety of ways, but they\u2019re often pretty useful.<\/p>\r\n<p>So if you see me in a social situation wearing black earbuds connected to a sort of black plastic collar, I\u2019m not listening to music; I\u2019m trying to participate more fully in social interaction.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>Some of the ways in which the device is imperfect:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>I assume that it\u2019s not as good as a hearing aid at improving my hearing.<\/li>\r\n  <li>You can\u2019t tune the angle in which it amplifies sound; there are only three fixed options. (A) Cancel all sound in all directions; (B) Cancel all sound behind you, in a 180-degree angle; or (C) Cancel all sound in about a 320-degree angle, letting you amplify sound from a 40ish-degree-angle wedge in front of you. (Option C is the one that I mostly use.) So even if you\u2019re talking with only one person, you can\u2019t narrow the angle to focus specifically on them.<\/li>\r\n  <li>The amplification is directional, so if you\u2019re talking with someone and there are loud people beyond them, you\u2019ll also pick up the people beyond them.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Sound bounces, so (for example) if you\u2019re facing a wall, you\u2019ll pick up some sound from all around the room that\u2019s bouncing off the wall.<\/li>\r\n  <li>It amplifies my own voice in my ears, so if I\u2019m not careful, I end up speaking even more quietly than usual, which makes it extra-hard for other people to hear me.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>But even so, using them lets me participate in some social situations where I\u2019ve previously been unable to hear anything that anyone was saying.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17977,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976\/revisions\/17977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}