[desert_rue]

Plus people can lose hearing in different bands: they might hear bass fine but people with high-pitched voices may not register. Just turning up the volume won’t address that.

[mixmastamyk]

Maybe, maybe not. Noise canceling with multiple mics is old tech. As far as anyone knows, no one ever tried.

Maybe I’ll try with my pine phone if I can figure out pipewire programing.

[don_neufeld]

Yeah, when you get into what hearing aides do, there's quite a bit going on.

This manual is a useful place to start: https://order.starkeypro.com/pdfs/The_Compression_Handbook.p...