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Hearing aids compensate for a health problem, the goal here seems to be to improve hearing even for those that don't have hearing problems. If hearing aids are

• emptybits 10y ago
  Maybe a better analogy is ... if hearing aids are glasses, these are reading glasses. i.e. off-the-shelf, self-diagnosed, cheap and easy solution for part-time use without getting "medical" (I say "cheap" because I don't know what the Hearphones will cost but I've helped relatives shop for hearing aids and WOW ... from what I gather, as you step up in price in a company's line of hearing aids, ticking off more boxes in their feature matrix, they're probably just enabled bits of code in an otherwise identical DSP ... and the price increments go like this: $3K-$4K-$5K),
• pbhjpbhj 10y ago
  >improve hearing even for those that don't have hearing problems // That's pretty self-contradictory. Is it perhaps about people simply not wanting to admit they have hearing difficulties, these make it a "non-medical" issue and so allow people to address their poor hearing by-passing any potential stigma [they apply to themselves]. My mother needed hearing aids for a long time, but wouldn't get them, seemingly "because they're for old people".