XPost: comp.misc   
   From: trevor@home.net   
      
   On 21/04/2017 6:00 AM, geoff wrote:   
   > On 20/04/2017 9:34 PM, Trevor wrote:   
   >> Actually they are just an amplifier, active equaliser and compressor   
   >> with various stored custom settings like the ones you mention.   
   >> What really pisses me off is that it is so simple now to have Bluetooth   
   >> control from your mobile phone over all parameters of a hearing aid.   
   >> Sadly there are no aids available that do that simply because the   
   >> Audiologists want to keep their huge profits from fitting and adjusting   
   >> the aids. And some of the ones that do have control over volume and mode   
   >> settings via Bluetooth only work with iPhones because they are too slack   
   >> to write the apps for Android.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Or maybe they don't want every know-all Tom Dick and Harry further   
   > damaging their hearing by inept use and settings ?   
      
   Yeah that's what the Audiologists want you to believe!!!   
   Not everyone is a complete numpty, although perhaps you are?   
   Sadly most people never get them adjusted to maximum performance because   
   after going back a few times to the audiologist they get sick of it and   
   give up. Even worse, many who get free aids through the government   
   pension scheme give up, throw them in the draw and never use them. I   
   know a few like that, a complete waste of taxpayer money to subsidise   
   audiologists pension funds. :-(   
      
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