Visit with Jeremy and Willow
We went to Norfolk today to visit Jeremy and his daughter Willow. Unfortunately Willow’s mom Heather could not be there, although her Heather’s sister Dawn was there.
Jeremy has been helping us out with some research on the technical differences between the Cochlear, Advaned Bionics, and Med-El devices. I like his approach… In talking with the company, he tells them that the smiling baby on the website tells him nothing, and that he wanted technical details.
One important thing that came out of this was that AB’s upcoming 120 device would emulate 120 channels over their existing 16 channels. I think they do some sort of electronic dithering to get this to work. I’ve heard rumors from the trials that the new device does work better than the old, so that’s encouraging news. Their sampling rates are also significantly higher than their competitors… 5k/sec sound sampling, with 90k/sec processing samples. Jeremy says that this rivals high-end audio equipment that he works with.
After lunch we took Willow and Christopher to the park. This is the first time Christopher has been on a slide, or playing in sand. The pictures below show how much he hated it. (Password protected due to pictures of kids.)