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Pittvandewitt / Wavelet

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High frequency compressor to compensate for hearing loss? #271

Open LouisStAmour opened 9 months ago

LouisStAmour commented 9 months ago

Hi,

I've used https://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_frequencycheckhigh.php to test my hearing and I can't hear as much as I used to, and validated the file played back correctly by asking someone younger than me and they could hear up to 20kHz but I could only hear the tone clearly starting at 16 kHz... It faded in.

So.... With that in mind I realize that on the high end I'm missing very tiny nuances and I figure a high frequency compressor would do the trick, like what hearing aids do for more severe hearing frequency loss but in software so it works with any pair of headphones with legacy mode autoeq headphone profiles etc.

Any thoughts on if this could be added? Feel free to link to the above page if you want to give people a way to find the right setting to use. The intent should be that if you turn on the setting for high frequency hearing loss compression, pick a cutoff frequency, and re-visit the page or play it in the app. Theoretically with it on, you can hear a high pitched tone gradually fade in and lower in frequency slightly until your chosen cutoff when it would lower more dramatically as the original does and with it off, you wouldn't hear anything loud enough until you hit your hearing threshold like normal.

Does this make sense? Is it doable? I did pay for the upgrades btw. Thanks for a great app, works like a charm with USB Audio Player Pro on an Internal DAC with an LG V60 even with software MQA turned on. Love it.

Grooves1210 commented 5 months ago

Does it need to be dynamic?

Isn't normal eq the solution?