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Old 04-04-2009, 03:53 PM   #19 (permalink)
Hear Again
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Originally Posted by faire_jour View Post
So, deafdude, if your hearing aids are at 20 db, should a person just talk really loud to over come the difference? Why not? Isn't louder better?
If deafdude's hearing aids were programmed so that he could hear at 20 dB, he wouldn't need someone to talk very loud. 20 dB aided or unaided hearing is good enough for most people to be able to hear/understand conversational speech at normal volume levels.
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