Mimi Music 3.0 - Clear music and sound customized by your hearing profile

Pikazo

•9yr ago

With Mimi Music, in 2 min you can test your hearing, and process the sound of your music to your hearing profile. This means you'll hear more nuances and clarity in the music that you love!

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I love seeing talented tech folks tackling hearing issues. As my father is getting fitted for hearing aids, I'm starting to reckon with my own hearing damage (way too much loud music in early years). The app is really well designed. The hearing test is much easier than I expected. However, I'm not sure I'm getting accurate results. I can hear the tones well before I can determine which ear they are in (perhaps a sign of hearing damage itself). SoI wait a bit to hit the button and get a "red" result at every frequency. Perhaps my hearing really is that poor, but I suspect I'm getting overcorrected by Mimi. As a result, the processed audio sounds clearer at lower settings, but when cranked up to the middle-to-maximum range it sounds very bright and thin, and almost compressed. I'm curious to try this in the sound booth in my office. Perhaps with an ultra quiet background, I'll be able to get a more accurate test.

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9yr ago

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@mvboeke Hi Micheal, thanks so much for your thoughtful response. That's really interesting feedback. Because we are using a ramping test (the tone gradually gets louder, you tap when you hear it) the chance that it overcompensates when you're initially unable to hear which side the tone is coming from is there. Especially if you’re using for example different headphones or are in a relatively loud environment. Can I ask you which headphones you’re using to do the test? Also would be super curious to hear whether it makes a difference once you did the test in a more quiet environment. Once it’s set up it you’re good to listen after though.

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9yr ago

Love it ! As a musician I can really hear the vocals / instruments so much more precisely. Excited to see how this would work with lightening headphones + DACs in the future! Some feedback : + the UX could be more streamlined and guided instead of being so open ended. It would make for better on boarding & navigation + support for Spotify playlists folders

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9yr ago

Atium

Maker

@jagratdesai Thank you for comment and your feedback! Cool that you like it. We're also pretty excited about where headphone technology is going towards and how we can leverage that. Working on the UX of the app is important to us and you'll see improvements in the future. We want to move to a more guided approach but to a large extent were still testing how the people would respond to the music based on their earprint (the standard profile that we previously had was working well, so this is in that sense an experiment). -> Just today I was doing a user test with an improved fitting algorithm and could see future improvements both on the UX and tech side. Spotify folders is a good point as well, will look into that with the team!

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9yr ago

@gknook The app is really great Congrats on the release and it really helps +1👏😎🙌☺ and one more thing, maybe if you can shorten the name to Mimi would be great too! Just giving an idea 😁✌

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9yr ago

Atium

Maker

@mofodox Thank you so much! Glad you like it. Name is a good point. The thing is that we also have a hearing test and want to differentiate from that. Furthermore in the future we're looking at expanding to other sound (for example environmental sounds, which you can try already in the Mimi Music as well)

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9yr ago