Please Tell Me About Your Hearing Aids

Anybody out there care to comment on their experience learning to live with hearing aids?  My wife is tired of me asking her to repeat herself, especially when there's a lot of ambient noise.  She thinks I'm ready to try hearing aids, but I'm wondering about what effect they will have on recording and listening to music.

I've got typical old guy high-frequency hearing loss.  According to my recent audiogram, my hearing is good up to about 1.5k Hz and then drops off pretty fast beyond that -- down to 60-65 dB.  I'm told I'm a good candidate for the so-called open fit type that sits behind the ear and routes a little tube into the ear canal, but I'd like to have more real-world information before I go back to talk to those people.  Your observations would be helpful.

Thanks, John

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I've got typical old guy high-frequency hearing loss.  According to my recent audiogram, my hearing is good up to about 1.5k Hz and then drops off pretty fast beyond that -- down to 60-65 dB.  I'm told I'm a good candidate for the so-called open fit type that sits behind the ear and routes a little tube into the ear canal, but I'd like to have more real-world information before I go back to talk to those people.  Your observations would be helpful.

That's me. I have that behind the ear wire to the ear canal type. I only really use them for movies, sometimes TV (depending on the source materal) and final "critical" mix listening (when I remember to). They bring back about 60% of hi freq loss.

Thanks for the replies.  I was concerned that hearing aids would make music sound worse because they're optimized for voice clarity.