For my Music program, I have the impulse setting turned off. The settings for compression are called something else, but there are a few different levels. I think they call it speech recognition or something like that. Since most people use mostly for speech, I guess that makes more sense to Audiologists. When I look at my Log results in Compass GPS, most of my HA use is not detecting speech. Only about 25-30% is. One of the speech settings is l works well for that. The others enhance speech and you definitely don’t want the higher settings for music because the results can do odd things. Since you mentioned classical music, violins and violas and some frequencies of other instruments are pretty much in the speech range and setting it for enhancing speech is going to boost those particular frequencies. That could possibly explain what’s going on in your case. Anyway, try using different settings on different programs to optimize them for the different environments. Music needs the least or lowest amount of settings since you want it to come across as it is and not enhancing or suppressIng much at all. I like the Audibility Extender for music set on the lowest setting. Since Widex reproduces moved frequencies by octaves, you don’t get the out of tune effect that you might get with a similar function that moves the sounds, but not by an octave.
Unfortunately, the level for the AE function is for all programs it’s turned on for. I wish it was able to be set per program, but that’s not how it works. The other settings, however, do affect AE to some degree. So, you have to make some choices and experiment with combinations of settings since they do tend to affect each other somewhat. The minimal amount for AE is great for me to hear the higher keys on the piano and music sounds fuller because of more overtones. On the other programs it’s there to catch sibilant consonants, but at a very low level, so it gives a slight hint which helps, but doesn’t work as it was intended to make them louder. Everything’s a compromise, so you pick what’s more important to you. Music is more important than speech to me, so it’s optimized more than speech is. I think most people would optimize speech over music. You have to decide what’s more important for you and unfortunately you can’t really have both.
My issue was that the enhanced higher frequencies on the other programs worked fine forever speech and softer sounds, but clacking dishes and flatware were just so extreme that it hurt when it happened. The impulse setting is made for that. It detects fast peaks and suppresses them. It’s also another compressor setting labeled as somethIng else.
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