Hi
Having just had an audio test I've had my suspicions confirmed that I'm experiencing the "canonical" decline in my hearing for my age-group (80 +), exhibiting a distinct falling-off in the 2 to 5 KHz part of the spectrum (and progressively more at higher frequencies). Up to 5KHz I'm still hearing "normally" (ie up to 60 dB) and above that I hear at least
something! However from 2 KHz upwards attenuation - very mild at first - begins to set in.
I mentioned the 2 - 5 KHz range (above) because that's where speech starts being affected I was told - consonants begin to get progressively less audible (vowels are still unaffected) and that causes speech to start to become more blurry - which is exactly what I had begun to notice, albeit a fairly subtle effect, and which prompted me to have the hearing-test.
So, this doesn't mean I need a hearing-aid. But it does mean that I could benefit considerably from having an equalizer in the signal-path. Hence this post.
I've been looking into how I might be able to achieve that. A hardware component is out of the question (too expensive, bulky, overkill...) but it seems to me that Pulseaudio might give me just what I need. Here's the outcome of my attempt to explore that possibility - using the command-line for an ArchLinux install
login as: root
root@192.168.1.181's password:
RuneOs: 0.3-alpha (build 20140709)
RuneUI: 1.3-alpha
Hw-env: Odroid C1
ported by Frank Friedmann (aka hondagx35)
Last login: Fri Nov 15 14:19:03 2019 from 192.168.1.102
[root@runeaudio ~]# ls -a
. .bash_history .lesshst brutfir mpd-rune
.. .cache .rediscli_history build
[root@runeaudio ~]# sudo pacman -S pulseaudio-equalizer
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 5 providers available for libgl:
:: Repository extra
1) mesa-libgl
:: Repository alarm
2) gpu-viv-bin-mx6q-dfb 3) gpu-viv-bin-mx6q-fb 4) gpu-viv-bin-mx6q-wl
5) gpu-viv-bin-mx6q-x11
Enter a number (default=1): 1
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (45) damageproto-1.2.1-3 desktop-file-utils-0.22-1 elfutils-0.163-1
fftw-3.3.4-1 fontconfig-2.11.1-2 freetype2-2.6-1
graphite-1:1.3.0-1 gst-plugins-base-libs-1.4.5-1
gstreamer-1.4.5-1 harfbuzz-1.0.1-1 hicolor-icon-theme-0.15-1
lcms2-2.7-1 libdrm-2.4.64-1 libmng-2.0.3-1
libomxil-bellagio-0.9.3-1 libpciaccess-0.13.4-1
libtxc_dxtn-1.0.1-6 libxdamage-1.1.4-2 libxmu-1.1.2-1
libxrandr-1.5.0-1 libxrender-0.9.9-1 libxshmfence-1.2-1
libxt-1.1.5-1 libxv-1.0.10-1 libxxf86vm-1.1.4-1
llvm-libs-3.6.2-3 mesa-10.6.5-1 mesa-libgl-10.6.5-1
pyqt4-common-4.11.4-1 python-3.4.3-2 python-dbus-1.2.0-4
python-dbus-common-1.2.0-4 python-pyqt4-4.11.4-1
python-sip-4.16.9-1 qt4-4.8.7-2 qtwebkit-2.3.4-2
randrproto-1.5.0-1 renderproto-0.11.1-3 sip-4.16.9-1
videoproto-2.3.2-1 wayland-1.8.1-1
xdg-utils-1.1.0.git20150323-1 xf86vidmodeproto-2.3.1-3
xorg-xset-1.2.3-1 pulseaudio-equalizer-6.0-2
Total Download Size: 57.05 MiB
Total Installed Size: 286.92 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
I've no idea whether I should answer yes or no.
May I please have your advice?
debug info url:-
https://pastebin.com/PaaJdHdD
