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Default [CM] Headphones - Hearing aids

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 ****es 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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