Of course, every option has a drawback of some kind, and in this case, it is the maintenance and administration of numerous receivers. We’ve been doing radio for something like 130 years now, and we’ve got it pretty well sorted out. We just send signal to a transmitter, and our listeners tune in with a receiver (provided to them by us) and hear our signal at a level that’s comfortable (and clear) to them. There’s no need to physically build anything into the sanctuary. There’s a transmitter (or two or three), and there are receivers. It’s comparatively less expensive than other options, primarily because the necessary infrastructure can simply be carried into the room. Let’s take a look to see what options are available and desirable.Ī common solution for churches and secular settings to provide assistive listening is via RF. We need to deliberately and methodically deploy technology to ensure that everyone in the sanctuary can hear everything they’re supposed to hear. In certain scenarios, the clarity of speech in our sanctuary can be less than optimal due to reflections, which means that for people with hearing loss, what should be clean, clear speech comes across as reverb soup. And unfortunately we can’t just turn it up louder and hope for the best - if we did that, we would cause hearing difficulties for even more people! And for those of us who have been tasked with making sure everyone can hear our church services clearly, this means that going forward, we will have more folks in need of assistive listening systems than ever before. The net result is that there are more people in the world than ever before with diminished capacity to hear. One result of our increased exposure to the high SPLs of the modern world is that younger and younger people are experiencing the same kind of hearing loss that was formerly more common only in our honored senior citizens - the older folks who’d spun around the sun a few more times than the rest of us all. We go to concerts and airshows and sports events that inundate us with high SPLs as well. We get out of bed in the morning and crank up some music, we get in the car and listen to loud music on the way to work (or church), we walk through loud construction zones on our way into the office (and sometimes the loud construction zone IS the office).
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