Please shout louder - Android audio help needed! Zillions of rep-points to give away!
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It seems, that due to being a competitive shootist in my earlier years, coupled with years of motor-cycling before the industry invented low wind-noise helmets, under domestic pressure I will now have to wear hearing aids. A recent hearing test shows that my hearing is OK at low frequencies, but tails off rapidly as the frequency increases. :(( I often listen to music in the evenings using my Stax or Sennheiser headphones, while MrsLadyWife watches TV, but I now need to shape the sound to match my hearing, as per the hearing aid graphs. I have a good graphic equalizer loaded on my Android, and some good headphones to go with it, so I need to be able to plug a Bluetooth or WiFi thingy into the RCA out from my pre-amp, and pick it up on my Android, and thus to the headphones. So - does the hive mind of CP have any suggestions of how I should set about this? What kind of 'thingy' do I need? I should point out that headphones cannot be used with the hearing aids I am currently evaluating, and anyway, the sound quality is very poor. Please shout your reply very loudly, or I won't hear you. :laugh:
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It seems, that due to being a competitive shootist in my earlier years, coupled with years of motor-cycling before the industry invented low wind-noise helmets, under domestic pressure I will now have to wear hearing aids. A recent hearing test shows that my hearing is OK at low frequencies, but tails off rapidly as the frequency increases. :(( I often listen to music in the evenings using my Stax or Sennheiser headphones, while MrsLadyWife watches TV, but I now need to shape the sound to match my hearing, as per the hearing aid graphs. I have a good graphic equalizer loaded on my Android, and some good headphones to go with it, so I need to be able to plug a Bluetooth or WiFi thingy into the RCA out from my pre-amp, and pick it up on my Android, and thus to the headphones. So - does the hive mind of CP have any suggestions of how I should set about this? What kind of 'thingy' do I need? I should point out that headphones cannot be used with the hearing aids I am currently evaluating, and anyway, the sound quality is very poor. Please shout your reply very loudly, or I won't hear you. :laugh:
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It seems, that due to being a competitive shootist in my earlier years, coupled with years of motor-cycling before the industry invented low wind-noise helmets, under domestic pressure I will now have to wear hearing aids. A recent hearing test shows that my hearing is OK at low frequencies, but tails off rapidly as the frequency increases. :(( I often listen to music in the evenings using my Stax or Sennheiser headphones, while MrsLadyWife watches TV, but I now need to shape the sound to match my hearing, as per the hearing aid graphs. I have a good graphic equalizer loaded on my Android, and some good headphones to go with it, so I need to be able to plug a Bluetooth or WiFi thingy into the RCA out from my pre-amp, and pick it up on my Android, and thus to the headphones. So - does the hive mind of CP have any suggestions of how I should set about this? What kind of 'thingy' do I need? I should point out that headphones cannot be used with the hearing aids I am currently evaluating, and anyway, the sound quality is very poor. Please shout your reply very loudly, or I won't hear you. :laugh:
Is this the kind of thing you are looking for: DigiFunk® - WiFi Wireless Audio Music Receiver: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics[^]?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It seems, that due to being a competitive shootist in my earlier years, coupled with years of motor-cycling before the industry invented low wind-noise helmets, under domestic pressure I will now have to wear hearing aids. A recent hearing test shows that my hearing is OK at low frequencies, but tails off rapidly as the frequency increases. :(( I often listen to music in the evenings using my Stax or Sennheiser headphones, while MrsLadyWife watches TV, but I now need to shape the sound to match my hearing, as per the hearing aid graphs. I have a good graphic equalizer loaded on my Android, and some good headphones to go with it, so I need to be able to plug a Bluetooth or WiFi thingy into the RCA out from my pre-amp, and pick it up on my Android, and thus to the headphones. So - does the hive mind of CP have any suggestions of how I should set about this? What kind of 'thingy' do I need? I should point out that headphones cannot be used with the hearing aids I am currently evaluating, and anyway, the sound quality is very poor. Please shout your reply very loudly, or I won't hear you. :laugh:
Honestly, this might be something that would be a good Raspberry PI project, since you'll also need to run an analog-to-digital conversion on the signal coming across the RCA. I'd be surprised if you could find a COTS product that will do what you want it to out of the box, at least not at a reasonable price. I'm afraid that I don't know enough about analog-to-digital processing to make a good recommendation on approach, though.
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Is this the kind of thing you are looking for: DigiFunk® - WiFi Wireless Audio Music Receiver: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics[^]?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
You may be onto something there Griff, personally I would get the new ChromeCast Audio device. Then using the eq function in something like BubbleUpnp you could adjust the eq as required. I'm not sure if it would work, yet, I'm picking up my ChromeCast Audio device tonight, I will update when I've tried it.
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It seems, that due to being a competitive shootist in my earlier years, coupled with years of motor-cycling before the industry invented low wind-noise helmets, under domestic pressure I will now have to wear hearing aids. A recent hearing test shows that my hearing is OK at low frequencies, but tails off rapidly as the frequency increases. :(( I often listen to music in the evenings using my Stax or Sennheiser headphones, while MrsLadyWife watches TV, but I now need to shape the sound to match my hearing, as per the hearing aid graphs. I have a good graphic equalizer loaded on my Android, and some good headphones to go with it, so I need to be able to plug a Bluetooth or WiFi thingy into the RCA out from my pre-amp, and pick it up on my Android, and thus to the headphones. So - does the hive mind of CP have any suggestions of how I should set about this? What kind of 'thingy' do I need? I should point out that headphones cannot be used with the hearing aids I am currently evaluating, and anyway, the sound quality is very poor. Please shout your reply very loudly, or I won't hear you. :laugh:
Equalizer --> Bluetooth Adapter --> Phone --> headphones --> your ears, seems like a lot of steps. More steps equal more areas for sound degradation? Bluetooth is getting better, but it still leaves me wanting more, sometimes.
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Is this the kind of thing you are looking for: DigiFunk® - WiFi Wireless Audio Music Receiver: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics[^]?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Thanks for that - I found it earlier, but I think it works the wrong way. I want a magic thingy that sucks music out of the pre-amp, digitizes it, and sends it to the Android, whereas that seems to take the Wi-Fi signal and push it to the HiFi RCA connector. :sigh:
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Equalizer --> Bluetooth Adapter --> Phone --> headphones --> your ears, seems like a lot of steps. More steps equal more areas for sound degradation? Bluetooth is getting better, but it still leaves me wanting more, sometimes.
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It seems, that due to being a competitive shootist in my earlier years, coupled with years of motor-cycling before the industry invented low wind-noise helmets, under domestic pressure I will now have to wear hearing aids. A recent hearing test shows that my hearing is OK at low frequencies, but tails off rapidly as the frequency increases. :(( I often listen to music in the evenings using my Stax or Sennheiser headphones, while MrsLadyWife watches TV, but I now need to shape the sound to match my hearing, as per the hearing aid graphs. I have a good graphic equalizer loaded on my Android, and some good headphones to go with it, so I need to be able to plug a Bluetooth or WiFi thingy into the RCA out from my pre-amp, and pick it up on my Android, and thus to the headphones. So - does the hive mind of CP have any suggestions of how I should set about this? What kind of 'thingy' do I need? I should point out that headphones cannot be used with the hearing aids I am currently evaluating, and anyway, the sound quality is very poor. Please shout your reply very loudly, or I won't hear you. :laugh:
Have you looked into the Bluetooth enabled hearing aids? You can connect directly to your device and hear the music fit to your hearing deficiencies. Headphones over hearing aids does not work very well.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Honestly, this might be something that would be a good Raspberry PI project, since you'll also need to run an analog-to-digital conversion on the signal coming across the RCA. I'd be surprised if you could find a COTS product that will do what you want it to out of the box, at least not at a reasonable price. I'm afraid that I don't know enough about analog-to-digital processing to make a good recommendation on approach, though.
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PARDON! Please send me you Stax headphones (I already have the Sennheiser HD-650) It would appear you are not making best use of them. :-)
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Thanks for that - I found it earlier, but I think it works the wrong way. I want a magic thingy that sucks music out of the pre-amp, digitizes it, and sends it to the Android, whereas that seems to take the Wi-Fi signal and push it to the HiFi RCA connector. :sigh:
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Equalizer --> Bluetooth Adapter --> Phone --> headphones --> your ears, seems like a lot of steps. More steps equal more areas for sound degradation? Bluetooth is getting better, but it still leaves me wanting more, sometimes.
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I don't think its possible to send audio via Bluetooth to a phone, Bluetooth has strict source/sink rules. Omit the phone and use Bluetooth headphones (which are getting much better, but not Stax better) and what you suggest would work.
Why not? I use hands-free via bluetooth in the car and, unless I'm missing something, that is sending audio to the phone.
veni bibi saltavi
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Why not? I use hands-free via bluetooth in the car and, unless I'm missing something, that is sending audio to the phone.
veni bibi saltavi
Isn't it a bit too early to be "On the Gin" Nagy? :-) Unless I'm missing something, aren't you sending audio from the phone via Bluetooth when doing hands-free. Unless you mean the voice command to do the dialling, in that case I'm not sure how that works, it must be Voodoo magic.
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Sorry - I don't indulge in the black arts, for fear of damning my eternal soul! :laugh: I do LOB/DB stuff.
Same boat, but never afraid of playing with things that have wires! Soul was sold off for an excellent cheeseburger some years ago, though.
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Isn't it a bit too early to be "On the Gin" Nagy? :-) Unless I'm missing something, aren't you sending audio from the phone via Bluetooth when doing hands-free. Unless you mean the voice command to do the dialling, in that case I'm not sure how that works, it must be Voodoo magic.
No, you are missing something. I speak, this causes microphones fitted to the car to vibrate and create an electrical signal. The signal is transmitted to the phone via bluetooth and that sends it out through the cellular network. The callers inbound messages go from the phone via bluetooth to the car's audio system and out to the speakers.
veni bibi saltavi
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No, you are missing something. I speak, this causes microphones fitted to the car to vibrate and create an electrical signal. The signal is transmitted to the phone via bluetooth and that sends it out through the cellular network. The callers inbound messages go from the phone via bluetooth to the car's audio system and out to the speakers.
veni bibi saltavi
Oops :-o yes of course you are correct... I take back what I said about the gin. :-) All I can offer in my defence is that for HQ audio transfer we are usually taking about AVDTP, the voice link is a different part of the Bluetooth protocol and much lower quality.
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Have you looked into the Bluetooth enabled hearing aids? You can connect directly to your device and hear the music fit to your hearing deficiencies. Headphones over hearing aids does not work very well.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
Perhaps something like 7dayshop Fusion Pro Low latency Wireless Bluetooth Transmitter and Receiver Kit with aptX[^] Not used one myself but the reviews look good. /Darren
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It seems, that due to being a competitive shootist in my earlier years, coupled with years of motor-cycling before the industry invented low wind-noise helmets, under domestic pressure I will now have to wear hearing aids. A recent hearing test shows that my hearing is OK at low frequencies, but tails off rapidly as the frequency increases. :(( I often listen to music in the evenings using my Stax or Sennheiser headphones, while MrsLadyWife watches TV, but I now need to shape the sound to match my hearing, as per the hearing aid graphs. I have a good graphic equalizer loaded on my Android, and some good headphones to go with it, so I need to be able to plug a Bluetooth or WiFi thingy into the RCA out from my pre-amp, and pick it up on my Android, and thus to the headphones. So - does the hive mind of CP have any suggestions of how I should set about this? What kind of 'thingy' do I need? I should point out that headphones cannot be used with the hearing aids I am currently evaluating, and anyway, the sound quality is very poor. Please shout your reply very loudly, or I won't hear you. :laugh:
Chris C-B wrote:
while MrsLadyWife watches TV
What exactly is MrSirWife then, or rather, do I even want to know? ;P Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
