Preserve what you have.
Protect what you’ve earned.
You have spent years developing an ear most people do not have. When something changes - clarity, effort, balance, sensitivity, pitch confidence, or the way sound feels, it deserves more than a basic screening.
Precision hearing care for musicians.
Berkeley Hearing Center provides precision hearing care for musicians and serious listeners, guided by audiology expertise and real fluency in trained musical listening.
Musician-focused baseline evaluations designed to identify subtle changes early
Tinnitus and sound-sensitivity support with clear clinical guidance
Custom high-fidelity hearing protection, musician earplugs, and in-ear monitor impressions
Care guided by an audiologist who understands trained listening from the inside
Does your audiologist ask you to play an open string?
Musicians notice changes most people cannot easily describe: clarity, blend, balance, fatigue, pitch confidence, timbre, and the way sound behaves in complex environments.
At Berkeley Hearing Center, that language does not need translation. Your care is guided by clinical expertise and real musical fluency, so recommendations are grounded in how you actually listen, perform, teach, rehearse, and protect your hearing over time.
Protect First
Custom musician earplugs are designed to reduce exposure while preserving more of the balance and detail musicians rely on. We help you choose protection that fits your instrument, environment, schedule, and listening priorities
Choose Care, Not a Store
When hearing care is needed, outcomes depend on clinical judgment, careful fitting, thoughtful refinement, and support over time.
Care from a music and performing arts audiology specialist can make a meaningful difference in precision, confidence, and long-term results. That level of musician fluency is rare.
With Dr. Gabriel Liboiron-Cohen’s classical training and clinical expertise, our recommendations are built around the real demands of performance from the experience that our experts have, same as the experiences you’re looking to protect.
Intervene Early
For musicians, early hearing change often appears as effort, reduced clarity, altered timbre, sound sensitivity, or a subtle loss of confidence in complex listening environments.
A musician baseline gives you a clear reference point and a responsible plan for what comes next.
When Hearing Technology Is Clinically Indicated
We don’t “sell devices.” We prescribe treatment, verify, refine, and support outcomes over time.
Your Journey: The Berkeley Hearing Method for Musicians
Understand. Build. Adapt. Protect.
Musicians hear differently because they listen differently. The Berkeley Hearing Method for Musicians is our structured approach to specialized care for performers, educators, audio professionals, and serious listeners whose ears are central to their craft.
Understand
We begin by understanding your hearing in the context of your musical life.
For musicians, subtle changes may appear as effort, fatigue, altered timbre, sound sensitivity, tinnitus, or reduced confidence in complex listening environments. Your evaluation establishes a meaningful baseline and connects clinical findings to the way you listen, perform, teach, record, and communicate.
Build
We build a plan around your hearing, goals, and real-world listening demands.
Your care may include custom musician hearing protection, tinnitus or sound-sensitivity support, communication strategies, hearing technology, in-ear monitor impressions, or ongoing monitoring. Recommendations are explained clearly and shaped around what matters most to your life and work.
Adapt
We refine care as you return to real listening environments.
Rehearsals, performances, lessons, recording sessions, amplified settings, ensemble work, and everyday conversation all place different demands on your hearing. Your experience guides thoughtful adjustment over time, so care supports how you actually listen.
Protect
We help protect your hearing as your needs, environments, and technology options evolve.
Your hearing is a professional, personal, and creative asset. Ongoing care helps you monitor change, reduce risk, maintain sound quality, and make informed decisions over time.
You are not simply getting a test or a device. You are beginning a specialized care relationship designed to protect one of your most important professional assets.
Noise exposure is not the same for every musician, even within the same ensemble. Instrument, seating, venue, amplification, rehearsal length, monitoring, and room acoustics can all affect listening demands and exposure over time.
That is why musician hearing care should account for more than a standard audiogram. We take time to understand the environments you work in, the demands on your ear, and the best way to protect your hearing without compromising the sound you depend on.
Musician Baseline Hearing Evaluation
An unhurried, methodical evaluation designed to establish a meaningful baseline for musicians and serious listeners. We look at how hearing affects clarity, listening effort, sound quality, confidence, and real-world performance demands, then provide clear guidance on what to do next.
When clinically appropriate, advanced diagnostic measures may be included to create a more complete picture of your hearing.
Do musician earplugs change the sound?
I have tinnitus, does that mean I’m losing my hearing?
How often should musicians get tested?
My hearing seems fine in quiet spaces, but why do I struggle in rehearsal?
