I also have high-end hearing aids with built in Bluetooth and I’m very pleased with their sound quality for conversations, concerts, etc. They do a very good job of boosting those frequencies where I have a loss. However, I was disappointed when I first streamed music from my iPhone. The music sounded weak and didn’t have much bass. When I went back to my audiologist for my 7-day checkup I mentioned this disappointment. She laughed and explained that my aids used ‘open domes’ on the end of the wires inside my ears to allow the maximum amount of ‘through the air’ natural sound to enter my ears. When I pipe music through my aids much of the music is lost out through the opening of my ears. When I used my hearing aids with a soft foam sound-suppressing ear plug inserted behind them to prevent the loss of music from my ears the sound was tremendously improved. This works great as long as I’m in a situation where I don’t need to be aware of my surroundings. For those times when I want to be aware I bought a set of AirPods (3rd gen) and went through the process of adjusting the EQ to account for my hearing loss.
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