XPost: comp.misc
From: rich@example.invalid
In comp.misc Trevor wrote:
> 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.
And some (my grandmother and my mother) waited until they were deaf
enough before trying any that they had gotten acclimated to the "quiet"
that results from being considerably deaf. And after putting them in
their ears all they wanted to do was turn the volume way down because
of all the "noise" (all the normal background sounds that those of us
with normal hearing can't turn off, so our brains learn to ignore it).
Resulting in significantly reduced effectiveness of the hearing aid,
and eventual frustration and giving up on the devices as "they just
don't work".
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