I have this problem too, and it's one of the main reasons I now hate going to bars. If I'm in a group of people having a conversation I end up standing around c

I have this problem too, and it's one of the main reasons I now hate going to bars. If I'm in a group of people having a conversation I end up standing around concentrating hard to grasp a tiny percentage of what's going on (usually too late to chime in) by bad lip reading. Lots of nodding and flubbing and feeling stupid when someone asks me something. Mostly I just hear what could be described as loud crackly distortion - not fun. I can hear just fine without that background noise though. The ambient noise doesn't even have to be that loud either.