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by jeremiahbuckley 881 days ago
I am very ignorant about this, but couldn’t this be solved with a config where you specify “hearing loss at these frequencies at these levels” and then the headphones increase/decrease this frequencies in response? Obviously, there needs to be a standard, and hw that listens to the standard.
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lathiat 881 days ago
It could. Apple AirPods actually support this (using a real "Audiogram") but annoyingly they currently "average" your two ears and don't apply an ear-specific correction. Which for someone like me with perfect hearing on one side and supposedly "Mild" but realistically quite significant hearing loss on the other side is a real pain.

There are already quite a few products in this space: Bose HearPhones Nuheara .. and many more.

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jeremiahbuckley 881 days ago
Awesome to discover this, a necessary but not sufficient step to improving competition and choice.
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skybrian 881 days ago
Frequency response is similar to an EQ, but there are lots of other problems. There is feedback, which is worse at higher amplification, which people with more severe hearing loss need. There is wind noise.
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