Patent ID: 8553897

Claim:
A method of acoustically fitting a hearing aid, comprising; providing through stereo headphones simultaneously to both ears of a patient a plurality of individual audible tones, each audible tone having at least one predetermined frequency wherein each individual audible tone is provided at a predetermined sound pressure to each ear; allowing the patient to change the sound pressure for each individual audible tone from the predetermined sound pressure in at least one ear to a second sound pressure in the at least one ear until the individual audible tone for a given predetermined sound pressure is perceived to be substantially binaurally balanced between both ears; recording the second sound pressure for each individual audible tone of the plurality of audible tones; and modifying an amplification or attenuation requirement for each frequency band of a hearing aid so that sound pressure produced by the hearing aid in each frequency band is perceived by the patient to be substantially binaurally balanced between both ears.