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by mgerdts 881 days ago
It’s not only that, the hearing loss may be very different in each ear. I don’t need a hearing aid for my left ear. If I lie with my left ear on a pillow, I will hear almost nothing. My yappy ankle biter dog a 3ft is audible. This means that if I use an OK headset, shift the balance as far right as possible while keeping the left speaker on, then turn my iPhone all the way up, I hear stereo at a comfortable but not loud level. Surely that amplifies some frequencies way higher than they should be amplified.