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Incidental Observation to Increase Hearing Aid Bass

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When I use my Starkey Genesis hearing aids I noticed accidentally that if I push up with my fingers on the lower part of my ears then the bass in music increases dramatically. My sense is that the increase largely comes from physical vibration, i.e. perhaps this maneuver increases bone conduction.

Is this a known observation for users? If so is there some receiver or dome or other accessory to intentionally increase bone conduction when using a hearing aid?

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Yes it’s an occlusive fit that will give more Bass, unlike an open fitting, so I guess your just closing the ear canal a bit more when you do this.

Custom earmolds will give your the most bass (you will hear everything better actually).
Incidentally it’s what pros in music industry use.
Next in order would be the so called “power domes” of proper size, which are similar to what earbuds use.
You need tight and closed fit.

Interesting - my audiologist already tried both of those

I have a set of custom earmolds but I compared them to power domes and decides the power domes sounded better - so that is what I am using now

But the technique I noted in my original post increases the bass dramatically over either of those options

Blocking my ear with a finger increases the bass slightly

Pushing up on the bottom of my ear (pushing on the canal, not on the earlobe) has an extremely larger effect

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It has to be a fitting issue then, you’re either repositioning the receiver/speaker or making the canal tighter so less of the sound escapes.
Due to the way they may be inserted and how some canals are shaped, what might happen is that receiver is skewed and is facing the wall.

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It won’t help!! Been there done that.
Work arounds that helps:
Foam earplugs cut down so you don’t look like the Frankenstein monster, pushed up against your earmolds, or domes.
Cut some cotton balls to fit the same way as the above.
You’ll get a much better seal, and bass will be there!

My final fix is to wear my Etymotic ER3SE IEMs with the dual flange tips, and not even bother w/.
You don’t display your , so hard to say what will work for you, but if you click on mine you can compare.
For non streaming music I wear my Sennheiser HD6XX cans over my HAs with the Music program on.

I had a similar observation…

Couldn’t hear. Wondered if I had my hearing aids in. Index finger in each ear. Aids were at least twice as loud as before.
Audi switched me from open domes to when I told him about it.

He was a fine gentleman who suggested politely a month ago I should find someone that could help me better than he could. I did. I can hear now! Ended 2 years of setup trials…

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