Hi.
I am extremely hearing impaired and recently had a jack installed in my 2013 Limited so I could plug in some headphones and listen (monaurally - and without cabin noise) to AM news and talk radio.
For 14 years previously I had a jack installed in my Dodge Dakota and could understand speech well enough to understand news and talk programs.
Having the jack installed in the Limited has not given me the vocal clarity I had with the Dakota - even though I'm using the same headphones as I did in the Dakota. The voices are just "blah, blah, blah... I can't make out what they're saying. So I have to think it's the adjustment to the radio that is wrong.
I'm 66 and near deaf for 30 years, so stopped learning about the latest audio tech decades ago. In my Dakota there used to be two dials - "Base" and "Treble." I turned the base to the lowest setting possible, and turned the treble to as high as possible, because I best understand "sharp" speech. As sharp as possible.
With this radio there are about a million possible adjustments and I know how to do none of them. A friend told me about the "equalizer," I think he called it (seven columns that can be adjusted up or down,) and he told me to put the first three columns (representing base) to their lowest setting, and putting the next four (representing treble) to their highest setting."
I did that and it sounds a little sharper and clearer - but still not enough to make the voices clear and understandable to me.
So I was wondering if anyone here might have some adjustment ideas to give me clearer speech?
I would greatly appreciate being able to use my radio. Thank you for any help you can provide.
