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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org>
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Subject: Re: Airpod Pro 2 as hearing aid
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On 4 Mar 2025 at 17:50:30 GMT, "Liz Tuddenham" <Liz Tuddenham> wrote:

> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 4 Mar 2025 at 17:07:54 GMT, "Jaimie Vandenbergh"
>> <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 26 Feb 2025 at 11:26:07 GMT, "Theo"
>>> <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Michael Phillips <me@odtaa.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On 26 Feb 2025 at 09:59:24 GMT, "Theo"
>>>>> <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> AIUI hearing aid functionality is not approved for use in the UK.  There
>>>>>> were noises a couple of wweks ago from the government that they would
>>>>>> expedite the process but no date has been announced.
>>>>> 
>>>>> According to Apple the Hearing Test feature and the Hearing Aid feature
>>>>> is available in UK and Ireland. It's only the Hearing Protection feature
>>>>> that is restricted to USA and Canada.
>>>> 
>>>> Ah, it seems Apple enabled it 2 days ago:
>>>> https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2025/02/hearing-aid-feature-available
>>>> -today-with-airpods-pro-2/
>>>> 
>>>> Theo
>>> 
>>> I'll be interested in the self-test results. I have a peculiar issue
>>> since about 18 months ago where the Airpods "transparency" no longer
>>> really works in my right ear - and I've tried three different right
>>> earpods which test fine for other people.
>> 
>> Well, that came back with "no significant issues", 1db loss left ear,
>> 5db loss right ear. Categorisation is that 0-24db loss is "little to no
>> loss".
> 
> Is this over the whole range or just at one frequecy?  dB is a relative
> measurement (like percent) so have they said what they are comparing it
> with?

You get a little graph of your sample points with some explanations.
Mine:
https://imgur.com/a/ArXdXYX

I didn't screenshot it, but if you click the left or right average
buttons you get to see it highlight that only the 500Hz/1kHz/2kHz/4kHz
data points are considered when creating the average score for loss. The
other data points are used in an freq-dependent volume boosting setup if
it thinks that'd be useful.

I'm not sure what the baseline zero that the db are compared to is, no.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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