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an_d_rew ◴[] 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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JKCalhoun ◴[] No.41913703[source]
My wife is in her 50's. Her hearing seems noticeably poor than it used to be but she is in a bit of denial about it. This will be my first purchase of Air Pods — and for my wife. A kind of stealth hearing aid....
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meragrin_ ◴[] No.41913998[source]
> A kind of stealth hearing aid....

I've had hearing aids for years. People don't notice unless you don't have much hair or you have to have the industrial strength ones.

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1. JKCalhoun ◴[] No.41914581[source]
"Stealth" in this case means I am stealthily getting her to try a "hearing aid" by way of Air Pods.