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Sound quality, when it comes to today’s music, for the most part is not optimized for human ears. Unless you have above average hearing, the variation between an outstanding audio and a crappy, lousy sound will go largely undetected. Good thing innovativations in music technologies are making personalized music a reality for individual listeners.

Whether you are an audiophile, a music lover, or someone who values quality audio just like we do, pay attention as we tackle on the science behind sound and the factors affecting its quality.

Listen up! The Mimi hearing test 4.0 is the future. And it’s already here. Trust us, whatever your hearing ability or age, you want in on this ear-test action…

While you were enjoying the early sounds of spring we were keeping up with the latest hearing health and ‘science of sound’ stories. Here’s this week’s top picks from around the web and social media:

The New Yorker considers recent breakthroughs in the field of hearing restoration from a personal perspective. Today’s transformational advances in hearing technology are having a transformational impact on people’s lives

We’re proud to announce that Mimi technology is now integrated with our first SDK partner Grammofy. We’re very excited about this bold step towards healthy hearing — and to celebrate we’re offering 10 lucky listeners the chance to win one of ten 2-month free subscriptions to Grammofy’s classical music streaming service.

To enter simply Like our Facebook page, Like the giveaway post – and hey presto you’ll be entered into the giveaway!

Exciting times ahead: you can now personalize classical music! Mimi’s technology is now integrated in our first partner, Grammofy, a classical music streaming service. We’re very happy that Grammofy’s users can now also enjoy music personalized to their hearing profiles, as this is one large leap towards making healthy hearing the norm. We also want to make you – our dearest users – happy by letting you know that you can use your Earprint in yet another audio service.

Viele von euch fragen uns, warum wir einen Login ganz am Anfang der App haben bzw. Warum es Sinn macht ein Mimi Profil anzulegen.

You’ve taken your first hearing test – and you wonder what all those numbers mean? Or do your results surprise you? You’re not alone. Just like you, our team at Mimi is continuously learning about hearing as we go: we have discovered many new insights about the hearing of the population. Here we would like to explain these to you.

Mimi Hearing Technologies kooperiert jetzt mit der BARMER – Deutschlands größter gesetzlicher Krankenversicherung.

Dieser Satz liest sich ziemlich unspektakulär und trocken. Jedoch ist das ein wesentlicher Meilenstein, seitdem alles im Jahre 2013 mit einer Hörhilfe App und der darauffolgenden Mimi Hörtest App begann. Die Hörhilfe App gibt es in dieser Form nicht mehr, und der Mimi Hörtest ist mit einer halben Millionen Downloads zum weltweit erfolgreichsten smartphone-basierten Hörtest im Appstore geworden.

World Hearing Day is here again! This year, we created a Worldwide Hearing Index in order to draw attention to the global issue of noise pollution and it’s impact on our hearing ability. We analyzed data from our hearing test app, which is the largest, digital database that tracks people’s hearing ability in the world. We paired this data with research from the World Health Organization (WHO) on noise pollution in 50 cities internationally.

Your gums are the best way to predict whether you’re suffering from cardiovascular disease. Isn’t that surprising? It’s not that your gums are the best biomarkers for cardiovascular disease, there are probably much easier ways. The reason that gums work so well, is that we all go to the dentist every half year (or at least most of us do). This is the most regular and consistent health checkup that most of us get, making it easy to detect small changes in your physiological state. Being able to detect those small changes means you can catch such a disease early on. This can mean the difference between a fatal heart attack and continuing to live until you’re 100.