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thank you! i was able to improve what i heard by adjusting the earpieces better but what i find uncomfortable is the stems themselves seem so bent inwards. i'm thinking this might be just with the lightweight. not sure whether to keep them or not, i have to really push them in to hear well. might not be the best model for me to use.
This may seem like I am picking on you..I really am not..but are you sure you have the earpieces in your ears correctly?
If you have them in the wrong way you won't hear properly.
I don't know how to explain this but the ear pieces need to fit into the ear opening so that they angle toward the canal..which in turn fills the opening blocking outside noise. The earpices almost look like you are putting them in backwards when you are actually putting them in correctly.
now looking at the scope you can see the curve of the ear stems and if you put them in how you would 'think' they go in, i can't hear squat. if i turn them around where if i look at the ear pieces they are actually curving away from me and put them in, i can hear crystal clear.
i actually thought, surely these don't go in this way, it doesn't even look natural to me but i could hear with them that way. strange.
Linz8
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ok - bear with me. i ordered a new littmann lightweight stethoscope from jasco, got it today and i can't hear anything out of it. i turned the head like the book instructs yet can't hear much unless i tap on it loudly. am i doing something wrong or is this just not a good scope?
on a funny note - i was telling my baby brother (22) about this and he laughs and says "did you put it on charge before you used it?!" lol what a card.