I wanna find a hifi for my elderly parents

anonymousie

My parents (80's) "need" a new Hifi (read Dad has taken a liking to our old modular system as theirs is playing up.

My sis (who may have more money than sense) has recently got a Bose little DAB thing with a CD player (looking at the site it is the Bose wave at £499:eek: ) so of course Mum thinks "your Dad would like one of them.........

Honestly, at times I dispair- I don't mind them SKIing (spending the kids inheritance) it isn't about that, but Dad is honestly very deaf. He has just been fitted for a new (NHS thankfully) aid after his mega bucks (they didn't ever tell me how much so it must be bad) private aids didn't help:rolleyes: so TBH I don't think he'd ever tell Bose from dixons cheapy TBH!!

Mum buys Dad his gadgets to shut him up I think, he plays with them for a bit, then either messes them up so one of us has to sort it, or forgets about it:rotfl:

They need a DAB radio, and CD with a good "oomph" of sound and, if it had a tape deck all to the good (but I doubt it these days). THey have a turntable too for the records, so if that could "line in " that would be nice.

I wondered about one of the "pure" ones??

noonesperfect

This isn't a put down to your parents but they would probably appreciate something that isn't too hi-tech (as the child :rolleyes: of parents both now sadly gone) there was nothing that scared them more than new equipment!

If your Dad is fairly deaf he probably wouldn't know the difference anyway. Philips do some quite nice micro hi-fi systems (starting around £40) and Sony too, but slightly pricier.

Might it be worth your while to get one of those thingies (very high-tech me ) that enables you transfer records and tapes onto CD for them (via computer)? I think they cost about £50.

anonymousie

noonesperfect wrote: »

This isn't a put down to your parents but they would probably appreciate something that isn't too hi-tech (as the child :rolleyes: of parents both now sadly gone) there was nothing that scared them more than new equipment!

If your Dad is fairly deaf he probably wouldn't know the difference anyway. Philips do some quite nice micro hi-fi systems (starting around £40) and Sony too, but slightly pricier.

Might it be worth your while to get one of those thingies (very high-tech me ) that enables you transfer records and tapes onto CD for them (via computer)? I think they cost about £50.

you have hit the nail on the head 100%:T Fewer buttons and fewer different settings means Dad is less likely to disable the whole thing so mum can't even hear the archers:rotfl:

Maybe a reasonably cheap Hifi and the turntable thingie as an extra would be ideal- it'll give him a toy with a mission to get all the vinyl onto CD:rotfl:

BTW the lovely audiologist guy said that when his hearing aid is adjusted etc and working well he will "have to learn to listen again, no just to hear things"- I think he has got a point- there is a difference between hearing and actually proscessing the meaning and he has lost that skill:rotfl:

noonesperfect

I believe sounds are different through a hearing aid. My OH got one a few years back and it's stayed in a drawer ever since! Apparently everything was really distorted and echo-y with it in - it was one of the digital HA's as well . (incidentally OH is only in forties :rotfl: )

Hope you find something to suit, with prices the way they are for technology now you could probably pick up both items for under a ton.

PS Give your oldies a hug from me, bless em X.