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I've got a higher end audio setup, I can put the sound calibration mic in the listening position etc (think YPAO / Audyssey etc). But you get little weird sync issues at times between sources / displays etc.

On a whim I tried Apple's wireless sync. It's end to end, and works as well as I could with manual tuning (which I would do by filming at high speed a time audio sync track)

https://www.reddit.com/r/appletv/comments/itm711/psa_wireles...

So they demonstrated a consumer device could, in a few seconds, generate a fantastic sync solution across my entire input -> output -> room stack. Or I could spend an hour fiddling around in settings.

Airpod pro's provide a some level of isolation already especially if you run the fit check. airpods are also not that bad.

You could do a calibration curve at factory if needed for drivers. You could run a very user friendly process to fine tune, in the comfort of your own home, a profile of your hearing loss. You could update this anytime.

You could then also obviously offer some presets to amplify things in a targeted way. At the dinner table? Focus on voices. At a concert, do a music preset.

We've heard all this before with camera's by the way. The iphone doesn't have a "real camera". Yes, I used to shoot full frame. Yes, the iphone's cameras are "crap". But for many people they are "good enough", and they have other benefits, ease of use, easy to learn, not a big extra expense etc.

Let the market decide, apple can provide a warning -> if you want to wait for insurance to approve a hearing test, then schedule one, then wait for a device to be ordered and ship, then go back, then be dependent on an audiologist to tune things for you etc you should do so, but if you want, try out little app here to see if it helps.



> Let the market decide

I really hate it when people say "let the market decide" when it comes to health care. It's how we get $10,000 suppositories (a story earlier this week).

It appears you really like Apple's audio hardware (whereas I think it's middling crap), know little about hearing loss, and I don't feel like arguing the points.

Congratulations, you win.


That’s not the market - if one person is paying and another consuming you get crazy distortions.

As to whether AirPods etc are crap - I’ll let you have you opinion- I like them and they seem to sell well


The real issue is that an iphone cannot check for conductive or mixed hearing loss.




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