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TransformingSoundintoKnowledge

SequenceNote

AGCHearingAid–ReferenceGainEIN

Introduction

ThissequenceperformstwoofthemeasurementsfromtheANSIhearingaidteststandardS3.22-1996.Thefirst

part,inaccordancewithsection6.7ofthestandard,helpstheusersetthereferencetestgainforthehearingaid,

whichisusedformultiplemeasurementsinthestandard.Thesecondpart,fromsection6.12,teststhe

equivalentinputnoise(EIN)ofthedevice.Whiletherearemultiplewaystoapproachthesemeasurements,this

sequencedemonstratesanefficientprocessusingSoundCheck’sWAVfileequalizationmoduleandthevirtual

instruments.

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SoundCheckmodule2013,WAVFileEqualization,allowstheusertoapplycalibratedequalizationcurvestoany

WAVfileinasequence.Thisparticularsequencemakesuseofacustomthreetonestimulus(1000,1600,and

2500Hz)tomeasurethehighfrequencyaverage(HFA)atvariouslevels.

Thesequencebeginsbyinstructingtheusertosetthegainofthehearingaidtoum.TheequalizedHFA

WAVfileisplayedat90dBSPLthroughtheanechoicboxspeaker,andtheoutputofthehearingaidismeasured

throughanearsimulatorusingthemultimeter.ThisvalueistheHFAOSPL90(highfrequencyaverage,output

soundpressurelevelof90dB).