XPost: comp.misc   
   From: shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com   
      
   Once upon a time on usenet 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. 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. :-(   
      
   What's a "draw"?   
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   Shaun.   
      
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   (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)   
      
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