Ian I'm still wondering about the hearing aids thing.
I feel better without them, and in many settings they are not really a feasible option for me.

In the spectrum of over 2000hz exists every turning tire, fan, beeping deep fryers, the fan for the a/c in the car, it just amplifies those things to the point of pain. Even then it's pitch shifting and messing with the actual sound.

However I just put on a pair of Bose noise cancelling headphones at Best Buy.

They tell me I have recruitment, and that causes a lot of sounds to be too loud despite the fact I only hear vowels from women and get the rest by guess and lip reading.

But those headphones left me with almost zero background noise and it was like I went into a soundless tomb. It was damn eerie to say the least.

I'm gonna start a new thread on somewhat the same thing, different day.

John Conley
Musica est vita