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Audio Assistance at the Wells

The Loop Listening System is an upgraded state-of-the-art audio system that uses magnetic signal to communicate sound to listening devices and people’s personal hearing aids.  This allows for increased convenience and sound quality. 

Convenience  |  Patrons with hearing aids can have the audio communicated directly to them without having to pick up a device and remember to return it. The vast majority of hearing aids, whether old or new, have the required t-coil already in them, and the function just needs to be turned on by a hearing professional to receive the audio transmission.

Sound Quality   |  Unlike previous systems that use FM radio, the Loop Listening System communicates via cables that run throughout the theatre.  This reduces the length the sound must travel and comes through more clearly with a significant reduction in white noise.

For more information about this new system, visit http://www.hearingloop.org/.