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Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features

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170 points elsewhen | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 00:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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an_d_rew ◴[22 Oct 24 02:35 UTC] No.41910659[source]▶
As a mid-50 year old who discovered two years ago that he has moderate hearing loss (50-55 dB HL), I will be forever grateful to Apple for doing this.

If anybody from the accessibility teams is reading this, please know that it is difficult for me to overstate my gratitude and my appreciation for the amount of work this must've taken.

Music sounds unbelievably better through my AirPod pros, and I didn't even know what I had lost until I heard it again.

I'm willing to bet that a lot of my middle aged compatriots don't even know how much their hearing has degraded… Get your hearing test tested, folks, while you still have it!

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analog31 ◴[22 Oct 24 02:49 UTC] No.41910729[source]▶
Yes, and protect your hearing while you can. Turn down your tunes.

Disclosure: Working musician. I wear musician's earplugs when playing in bands.

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1. dagmx ◴[22 Oct 24 05:07 UTC] No.41911356[source]▶
I shoot live concerts as a hobby and it blows my mind that I’m the only one in the media pit with hearing protection.

My Apple Watch is screaming at me that its damaging levels of audio, and I can’t imagine listening to the show without protection.