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> It's too bad so many people think they're just mics and amplifiers. Modern hearing aids do a lot of signal processing. This is what I'm still trying to convi
by Arrath 2y ago
> It's too bad so many people think they're just mics and amplifiers. Modern hearing aids do a lot of signal processing.
This is what I'm still trying to convince my dad of, after he found the pair he was fitted with ~20 years ago absolutely useless. He found that they simply made everything louder which did nothing to help him pick out what he wanted to hear.
But he's always been picky about his soundscapes, wanting the TV muted during ad breaks etc etc.
- xur17 2y ago> But he's always been picky about his soundscapes, wanting the TV muted during ad breaks etc etc. I'm with him on this one. Commercials always end up being louder than the rest of the content, and are just.. annoying.
- geocrasher 2y agoI thought I had hearing loss. I don't. I have Audio Processing Disorder. When I found out about APD and read its symptom list, I cried. It's me, all over. Between that and ADHD I now understand how my brain processes (or doesn't process) sound properly and why even a well intentioned (but clueless) audiologist told me I had "selective hearing".
- vel0city 2y ago> he found the pair he was fitted with ~20 years ago absolutely useless IKUK but that's like having bad vision so you put on a pair of your glasses from 20 years ago, still having bad vision, and deciding glasses just don't work well. Hearing and vision change over time. And that's assuming those were good hearing aids 20 years ago compared to what is available today. I hope your dad ends up taking a chance.