Styx to play world-first show for hearing aid wearers

The US rockers will make concert history on 22 August when an audio feed from their show is broadcast to wearers of Oticon hearing aids

Styx's Tommy Shaw © Ralph Arvesen

The final show of Styx’s United We Rock US tour will make live music history by being the first concert broadcast directly to viewers’ hearing aids.

Sound engineers for the 22 August show, at PNC Bank Arts Center (17,500-cap.) in Holmdel, New Jersey, will capture the audio feed from the sound desk and deliver it via the website of manufacturer Oticon to wearers of the company’s hearing aids.

The broadcast, says Oticon, is designed to both “illustrate the high-tech…

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