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Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

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I’ll chime in with a sidebar: Anyone got any experience using hearing aids for the "hearing in noise" issue (aka. King-Kopetzky syndrome or lack of cocktail party effect [0], part of a whole bunch of things also called adhd for ears). Essentially I have filtering issues, as soon as multiple people talk, I can’t really understand anyone anymore, unless they very directly speak into my ears so they are significantly lo…

Bose used to make these noise cancelling earphones called the Hearphones that could focus on the speech of person in front of you and they were amazing: https://support.bose.com/s/product/hearphones-conversationen... I absolute loved them, but unfortunately lost them, and they are irreplaceable.

One seen lots like this on sites like AliExpress. Of course, not Bose, but classed as a hearing aid rather than headphones.

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My only concern with custom hearing aid is getting eczema in my inner canal, I'm at lost of how to overcome this issue for years.

Because custom ones fit so snugly? Why do non-custom fit ones not give you eczema?

Both custom and off-the-shelve give me eczema. Just need a artificial skin that can avoid these sensation.

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Which sadly does not work very reliably. At least on my end the selection changes back to default every few days. I reported this issue over the Apple Feedback app already…

Yes, that’s my experience too. I have to choose during each call by opening the control centre and choosing the audio settings option for the ongoing call. This does seem to let me enable voice isolation though, which seems to work very well.

Aw think it got worse on 26.1! Was perfect before.
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