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by kristofferR 584 days ago
Does anyone know what the Hearing Protection mode does? It's not available in Norway (or anywhere outside of NAmerica).

I've used the AirPods Pro 2 as hearing protection for some stuff before, it works fine. Is it just due to the words ("Hearing Protection") which they are only allowed to use only in America or is it actually better than regular Pro 2 noise-cancelling?

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I'm pretty sure all that's new is the hearing test app and marketing. AirPods already had these features.

From listening to it work HP sounds to me like multiband compression, in other words divide up the audible spectrum into multiple bands and apply compression on each one individually. Again it was already doing this though.