Ask HN: You think we can achieve better audio fidelity by bypassing ears?
In other words, my brain is well able to process audio, to the point of augmenting what my ears are starting to objectively lack.. I often listen to music with an analyzer like SonicVisualiser to help me pick out things that my ears have trouble with..
Do you think it's feasible within the next 10 years or so, that we can have implants to get high-fidelity audio delivered to our brains without the need for well-functioning ears? I need it within time-frame because I'm worried that my hearing will have degraded to the point where my brain will lose the ability to process the audio..
Any other ideas? I've thought about trying to apply electric stimulation to my tounge as an augment but I worry (besides nerve damage) that the response will be too slow, too low-resolution and too different to actually augment the listening experience..
I'm not talking about helping handicapped to hear (though it should be a great side-effect) but general-purpose usage for those of us who can't accept that we will gradually become unable to perceive music like we used to..