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"In mid-2002, nine months after activation, I upgraded to a program called Hi-Res, which gave me 16 channels - double the resolution! An audiologist plugged my processor into her laptop and uploaded the new code. I suddenly had a better ear, without surgery. In theory, I would now be able to distinguish among tones five notes apart instead of 11."

Beneath the coating of technical detail, the touching and remarkably human story of one man's quest to upgrade his own cybernetics and train his cochlear implants to hear music again.