System and method for providing hearing assistance to a user

A method of providing hearing assistance to a user, comprising:

• generating audio signals by an audio signal source and transmitting said audio signals by a transmission unit located at a distance form a user's ears via a wireless right ear audio link to a right ear unit which is worn at or at least in part in a user's right ear and which comprises means for stimulating the user's right ear and via a wireless left ear audio link to a left ear unit which is worn at or at least in part in a user's left ear and which comprises means for stimulating the user's left ear,
• detecting the qualitative excellence of the right ear link and of the left ear link,
• exchanging audio signals received from the transmission unit between the right ear unit and the left ear unit according to the detected the qualitative excellence of the right ear link and of the left ear link,
• selecting, as a function of the detected the qualitative excellence of the right ear link and the left ear link, as input to each of the stimulating means at least one of the audio signals received by the respective receiver unit from the transmission unit, the audio signals received from the other one of the right ear unit and the left ear unit, and mixtures thereof, and
• stimulating the user's right ear and the user's left ear according to the selected respective audio signals.