Equipment & Listening Guidelines
Headphones
Headphones that completely cover the ears and can handle frequencies from 18 - 80,000 HZ are essential. Listed below are our top recommendations.
Ensure that the headphones do not have noise-canceling or have a noise-canceling feature that can be turned off and are comfortable and light-weight.
Recommended Headphones
Bose® Around-Ear Headphones for Personal and Portable Listening
Sennheiser HD 280 Pro - Headphones (ear-cup)
Sennheiser HD201 Lightweight Over-Ear Binaural Headphones
Sony MDR-NC60 Noise Canceling Headphones
On these headphones, the noise canceling can be turned on and off.
Listening Devices
CD Player
Each frequency disk is a time dosage. During each treatment make sure your CD player is not set to repeat. It is recommended to work with a player that shuts off automatically when the disk is complete. Look for a player that does not have an AM/FM function.
iPod or Portable Player
Also an option is importing your frequencies to an iPod or other similar portable electronic listening device. It is important to follow the instructions below when importing your frequencies to ensure that all of the vital audiological components are included in the transfer. In this case, import the CDs in Apple Lossless format. MP3 versions of the have too much compression and do not work.
Each frequency disk is a time dosage. So it is important ensure that the frequency track does not repeat. We recommend making a separate playlist in iTunes or on your iPod containing only the specific frequency you are working with in your program.
Listening Guidelines
Listen to your CD only once per night with headphones that meet the recommendations. Left ear piece on left ear, right ear piece on right ear.
Continue listening even if you become irritated or agitated. If you become agitated, this may be your "threshold" experience, in which case you may turn the volume down but continue to listen. Adjusting the volume to a lower level may help the agitation pass.
Volume is important. Do not listen to the CD at loud decibels as this may damage the eardrum.
Instructions for Saving Audiology CDs to an iPod or Portable Player with iTunes
Open iTunes Preferences.
Mac: Choose iTunes > Preferences.
Windows: Choose Edit > Preferences.
Click the General button, then click the Importing Settings button in the second section of the window.
From the Import Using pop-up menu, choose the encoding format that you want to convert the song to, then click OK to save the settings. For Audiology CDs, choose Apple Lossless format.
Click the Import button to start importing the CD into iTunes.
Details can be found in this Apple support article.
