Now I Am Less Senseless Than Last Week

[smokeywolf]

Had glasses since I was 25; mostly for distance. Never failed the DMV vision test. Now, if I have to do fine work like removing splinters or ticks, fine soldering or inspection of machined surfaces, I have to use a loupe.

 

[Tomme boy]

I have been dealing with hearing loss since I was 18yo. I was playing with oxy/acetylene balloons and had 2 large balloons blow up in my hands. Blew both ear drums out and had rubber melted to my eyes. I had almost 75% loss for a couple years then the holes healed up and I started to get some hearing back.

I am to the point I will have to get hearing aides soon. I have had about 42% loss over the past 20 years. And it is getting worse in the last coupe of years. The old lady can not be in the same room when I am watching TV. It is too loud for her.

 

[smokeywolf]

Tomme, I've seen chairs with built in speakers on either/both side of the headrest. Also seen people place additional speakers on stands on either or both sides of a chair. Speaker proximity to your ears allows acceptable volume for both of you.

Newer TVs and stereo receivers with blue-tooth capabilities would make that easy to accomplish using blue-tooth speakers.

 

[Winelover]

My hearing aids have the option to use Bluetooth to listen to TV sounds, independent of the TV's volume. However, I find it less of a hassle to use just closed captioning on everything but sports and the news. Plus, we have more than one TV in the house, so that would require multiple adaptors.

 

[dale2242]

My hearing aids have Blue Tooth.
I love it.
They are connected to my phone.
I don`t have a smart TV, but that would be great.