User Testimonials
Marya
My earbuds have decent sound quality, but when I use the Yuni headphones the difference is significant. The sound is more immersive, particularly with music that includes lots of instruments and voices harmonizing. I'm noticing little details in my favorite songs that I wasn't aware of before!
Elizabeth D.
I have to say, I’ve NEVER had such a great experience listening to music on headphones as I did today.
I’ve been deaf in my left ear for as long as I can remember and the split of instruments from one channel to another has always been lost on me. Headphones have always been problematic as well (for all the reasons you know).
I can’t really describe how wonderful listening to music on your headphones is. I heard instrument licks in songs I’ve know for years for the first time. Before instruments and vocals were muddled together and with your headphones they were incredibly clear and separate.
I LOVE them!!! Thank you so much for bringing this to market. I now have to go re-listen to all my music to see what else I’ve been missing. :D
Tom K.
I just want to say bravo. My daughter absolutely loves the new headphones. Thank you for continue to innovate and come up with a great product design. We purchased the first Yuni that was 3D printed. These new ones are just perfect in fit, form and function. Taylor Swift never sounded so good.
Julie S.
I participated in the KickStarter for my unilaterally deaf 11 year old son. He had anxiously waited and asked me weekly for updates. When his package with three headphones came in he was so excited. He exclaimed that he didn’t know music could sound like this!
Joe P.
I've had SSD since age 10 or 12. I'm in my 'early' 70's. If you want the TLDR; -- they're great. I'm going to order probably more than one more.
To me, it's just unbelievable to put on your headphones and then to hear both channels. That in itself is a huge accomplishment. That is just fantastic. I can now listen to an album in half the time (ha ha -- get it).
On the design, as my wife pointed out -- no one wants to put on headphones that have some huge thing on one ear and nothing on the other. No one wants to look
stupid (: You guys have done a great job on making them be just normal
looking headphones.
Taliah
With my Yuni I now love listening to music! Thanks so much!
Joe W.
Opens up a whole new world of sound! Didn't realize what I was missing until the Yuni came along. Many thanks!!
LA in QC
I love being able to hear stereo in one ear at last. I have total congenital hearing loss in one ear, and I am a musician (go figure!). For the first time I don't have to worry about what I am missing when using headphones. thanks!
James Z.
This has evened the playing field for our child both at home and at school.
Salomé
The Yuni is the best set of headphones I've ever owned, hands down. I can hear things I could never hear before, things I never thought I'd get the opportunity to hear. I never thought anyone would have the interest or the ingenuity to create a stereo headphone for people who have unilateral deafness, like me, and I am eternally grateful that the Yuni proved me wrong.
M.
In March of 2013, I suddenly lost some hearing in one ear. One day I had normal hearing, the next I had sudden sensorineural loss. As well as fluctuating low frequency loss, I also got the strangest auditory impairment I had ever (actually, never) heard of before. Here's what Wikipedia says about it: 'Diplacusis, also known as diplacusis binauralis or interaural pitch difference (IPD) is a type of tinnitus that is the perception of a single auditory stimulus as two separate sounds which may differ in pitch or in time.
Oh, does it ever! What it really does - and thoroughly - is ruin the ability to listen to music with both ears. I've been an amateur musician and audiophile all my life. But now music sounded as if the entire string section of our local award-winning symphony forgot how to play. Not only were the notes off-key, the music was muddy due to the differences in the perception of time in one ear compared to the other.
I tried ear plugs, but they didn't work since I could still hear the off-key pitches and inaccurate timing, albeit 30 decibels softer. But hope dies hard, so I went to three more symphony concerts before giving up on live music entirely. OK, well. Is there any way to correct the pitch that enters one ear? Even if I had a degree in audio engineering - no. My variant of diplacusis doesn't have the decency to lower all notes by a quarter- or half-tone across all frequencies, that would be too easy. Some notes are sharp, some flat and some are right on, depending, it seems, on the whims of my cochlea.
Digital stereo music can be collapsed into mono, right? I could listen to music piped into my good ear. But it doesn't sound right. The flatness I could have learned to live with, I guess, but the music didn't sound right, somehow. And so I learned about phase distortions. I got so desperate that I'd listen to my favourite playlists with one stereo channel fed to one ear. Hardly the way I wanted to listen to music for the rest of my life.
And then came the Yuni. I found it during one of the innumerable Google searches that occupied every waking minute (so it seemed, some days) that first year of my hearing loss. I crossed my fingers, read the company's info, and took the chance.
I love it! I have music back in my life. Pure, wonderful, in-tune music. The Yuni is everything it's advertised to be. OK, I can't use it at a live concerts, but those are out of the question now anyway due to another weird hearing impairment - hyperacusis. In a very bizarre irony, the ear that can't hear low frequencies well or at all, depending on its mood, is sensitive, to the point of pain, to too much noise coming in.
So now I also use the Yuni to listen to TV programs, movies, anything with background music for 'mood' a.k.a. noise to me. No more wearing out the volume button on the remote! A relatively inexpensive system of a splitter amplifier, extension cables and local volume controls allows me to use my Yuni (and my husband to use regular headphones) with our home theatre system.