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Despite not having hearing loss, I'd be interested in augmenting my hearing. It seems far more useful than I can ever imagine Google Glass would have been for m

• navs 9y ago
  I'd especially love this when working remotely at cafes/busy shared spaces. Being able to tune in and hear someone better if they're in front of me or speaking directly at me or blocking out background noise.
  • dogma1138 9y ago
    These work quite well: https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/conversation_enhancing_headphones/hearphones.html https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/conversation_... I’ve tested them in demonstration environments only but they seemed to be close enough to real world cases to me.
    • mgkimsal 9y ago
      would be interested in reading someone's experience comparing these against the bose qc20. i love my qc20 right now. They reduce a lot of background noise, but I can still hear people talking (slightly reduced, but still can hear a conversation). Is this product mostly just a rebranding of the qc20 noise cancelling tech, or is it a different experience?
      • dogma1138 9y ago
        I don't have the QC20 I use QC35 now, and I have been using Bose NC headphones since the QuietComfort 2 came out like 15 years ago. I never used any of the Bose QC in earones but the "hearphones" are nothing like any of the Bose headphones I ever used even the older ones with a much higher (subjectively better) direct voice / talk frequency and amplitude range crossover than the current ones. It's more or less the same technology ofc but the profile of the microphone or at least the tunning / post processing they do is completely different.