"SteveB" (clip) From there, you can get top of the line brands on the
Internet
for about half of what the local crook wants. (clip)
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This is the only part of your message that I take issue with. Fitting a
hearing aid is more than making an earmold and adjusting the volume
control. Hearing loss varies from person to person, and the new digital
hearing aids can be programmed to fit the individual's need. My audiologist
measures the person's loss and enters the curve into his computer. He
inserts tiny flexible tubing into the patient's ears, so he can take out a
signal of what the hearing aid is doing. He then superimposes the hearing
loss curve, so he actually hears the same thing as the patient. Between
what he hears, and what the patient tells him, he is able to tune the
hearing aid to produce good intelligibility, It's much more than making
things louder.