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My late father had a unit similar to that,Roger..Cant remember what brand it was,,but it had a remote for the volume,,and it worked well.. (much to mum's disgust).. Only took a second for dad to go ''deaf'' once she started bleating at him.. I have lost about 20% of my hearing,I think,,blame loud music,,power tools,,and unmuffled V8's..and the dragstrip off course..

Originally Posted by lamin8r

My late father had a unit similar to that,Roger..Cant remember what brand it was,,but it had a remote for the volume,,and it worked well.. (much to mum's disgust).. Only took a second for dad to go ''deaf'' once she started bleating at him.. I have lost about 20% of my hearing,I think,,blame loud music,,power tools,,and unmuffled V8's..and the dragstrip off course..

Not to belabor the point, but it came as a real surprise to me when my regular doctor said that he used to tell patients to "...wait as long as you can..." before spending the money on hearing aids, but he had learned that it is better to get them at the first recognizable onset of loss. Apparently if you lose a certain frequency band, say from hammering bass in loud music not only are the receptors for that frequency damaged, the transmission pathway for that frequency atrophies and after a time will never come back even if that frequency of hearing is amplified. My hearing was a little below the "needs correction" line across all frequencies, and worse in the upper mid to upper ranges on one side. That side had permanent loss of 5% to 10%, but the other ear should correct back to full range over the next year, or at least that's what the snake oil sales gal says.....