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I would think there are a few others on the forum with hearing problems and could do with some suggestions for headphones.

My high frequency hearing is very bad due to machinery noise and I have problems hearing the TV and the wife! I have tried some Avantree Opera Headphones which were easy to setup and comfortable but I still can't hear very well. I see some headphones have an app but I am not sure if it woks with a TV - settings saved to the headset or just the phone . Anyone have some experience with Bluetooth headphones you can adjust?
 
I've been using Anker Soundcore Life Q30 for a few years and I have no complaints. I have the same higher frequency gaps with my hearing which means I can't hear higher pitch voices/noises and I am not able to hear conversations in noisy environments. They are Bluetooth, have a good battery, noise cancelling and other modes but that is the limit of any adjustments and I'm not aware of any app. They are also nearly half price at he moment.
 
Another one here (hear) for the Anker Soundcore but mine are Q20. I got mine cheap but I don't know if it was half price. Telly picks them up automatically and can pause playback from controls on right earpiece. Easy to switch to mobile phone for music, books and calls.
 
I would think there are a few others on the forum with hearing problems and could do with some suggestions for headphones.

My high frequency hearing is very bad due to machinery noise and I have problems hearing the TV and the wife! I have tried some Avantree Opera Headphones which were easy to setup and comfortable but I still can't hear very well. I see some headphones have an app but I am not sure if it woks with a TV - settings saved to the headset or just the phone . Anyone have some experience with Bluetooth headphones you can adjust?
Avoid bluetooth if you can avoid it, many introduce delays in the audio (leaving everything looking like a badly dubbed Japanese movie lol)

I did a setup for my mum who has severe hearing loss (especially in the higher frequencies) and used a separate audio amp with bass and treble controls (she cranks the treble way up) fed from the audio out on the TV into the audio inputs on the amp, and from that the headphones output goes into an RF (radio) rather than bluetooth transmitter to a set of relatively cheap headphones (only so she doesn't have a cable stretching from the TV to her chair)
(if you have an old graphic equaliser lying around, then that would work equally well instead of the amp with tone controls) all you want is boosting the treble while keeping the bass down...)
 
I treated myself with a pair of Sennheiser Momentum 4's last Christmas. They're very good but I only chose those because they were the most comfortable to wear out of those on offer in John Lewis. Audio delay is inevitable with Bluetooth but it is acceptable IMO. Noise cancellation is not 100% but again usually acceptable. I remove my hearing aids when using. The sound quality through the phones is infinitely better than what is achievable through my aids.
One anomaly I have found when watching TV is that the setup works well with live TV. We set the basic sound level for my wife when we switch on; I can then set my own level, with the TV remote when the phones are paired. However this doesn't work when watching catchup via the Internet. In this case the phones take over complete control of the TV set. This may be a problem peculiar to our Samsung TV.
Brian
 
I did try some Anker Q20i with my laptop but sent them back as they kept loosing connection. Reading up on it there can be problems with computers due to the driver or something. I didn't think about trying them with my TV as I didn't think it had Bluetooth hence buying the Avantree Opera set. I didn't notice any sync problems with them. They were optical from the TV to a transmitter and then Bluetooth to the headset.
I could use wired but my TV doesn't have a 3.5mm audio output - Samsung - but from what I reads it can cut out the TV speaker.

I may try another set of Anker; I can't remember how they sounded now.
 
I have been a fan of the bluetooth / noise cancelling headphones that I bought when I was flying longhaul every month, but those days are behind me and the headphones sadly not as durable as you'd hope for the price. Mine died recently and I certainly can't justify buying the same again.
On top of the above, the current generation of mobile phones don't have sockets for wired headphones any more, so bluetooth audio is rather useful to have.

I'm hoping to have solved the problem with a clever headphone amplifier "brick" that promises to have decent performance and a vast range of options for input and output. The thing is made by Fosi Audio, a little outfit from Hong Kong and although they have many small hifi products, they use kickstarter crowd funding to bring their new products to market and offer some early adopter discounts to get the product to market and create some chatter about them. Fingers crossed it will be delivered as planned sometime this month and will then become generally available.

For me, this box will talk to a music app on my phone by bluetooth and drive a pair of wired headphones.
For people looking for decent sound, it is able to connect using various digital connections and has both a digital converter and a headphone amp with it's own volune and tone controls giving you potentially good audio from laptops, game consoles,, whatever.

Not cheap but versatile, and if you have a favorite pair of wired headphones, this is a way to exploit them.

https://fosiaudio.com/pages/fosi-au...dXNtarS_7ysptE1z3miW8EYD3eheFAYTl_8Wsnx6AJb9I

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As a tinnitus sufferer, sometimes I find it impossible to sleep because of it and I used to resort to ear buds plugged into the phone to give me a soundtrack to drown it out.
 
I have a set of skullcrusher ANC 2 headphones. They’re great! I’ve connected them to the tv a few times and just superb.
 
As you acknowledge your hearing loss (oooppps - hearing impairment) is it perhaps time to get a proper hearig test/assessment; and then a set of hearing aids? If you're over a certain (age not sue what that is for hearing aids) you would qualify for NHS freebies. Having had "trest expensivo devices in the past, I have to say the NHS kit is far better... Current kit (as in what's being issued) does have bluetoof (presumably switchable on/off). My current kit doesn't have bluetoof, but later this summer when I get a re-assesment they will give me the latest free kit with bluetoof.
 
I would think there are a few others on the forum with hearing problems and could do with some suggestions for headphones.

My high frequency hearing is very bad due to machinery noise and I have problems hearing the TV and the wife! I have tried some Avantree Opera Headphones which were easy to setup and comfortable but I still can't hear very well. I see some headphones have an app but I am not sure if it woks with a TV - settings saved to the headset or just the phone . Anyone have some experience with Bluetooth headphones you can adjust?
Get a set of Bose 700 noise cancelling headphones , there's an app & you can set the level of outside noise that you can hear whilst watching your Tv programme so no need to take the headphones off.
My headphones settings are:
10 - 100% Tv
5. - 100% Tv & 50% Ambient noise
0 - 100% Both
 
I bought a set of AKG headphones about 15 years ago. Made in Austria they have a superb sound and I rout the audio output from my Sky box through a small valve amplifier. I watch all movies using this. My only gripe is that the foam around the earpieces have perished. Something to be aware of. ;)
 
My only gripe is that the foam around the earpieces have perished. Something to be aware of. ;)
If you pay ££ for even slightly premium headphones I think the construction is a big deal. I have sennheisers from the 1980's with velour ear cushions and you can still get replacements, but their models with plastic leather disintegrate after a few years and same goes for headbands. These often can't be replaced and it's effectively built in obsolescence. Grr.
 
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