Saw that…and if my current ones die I will have to investigate the alternatives. But they won’t work unless I can have several pairs and swap them fairly seamlessly when the battery needs charging. My current ones need batteries every 8 or 9 days and I wear them morning to bedtime…too many years spent in submarine engine rooms with noisy steam turbines.
I don’t see a problem. Each set of AirPod Pos could import your audiogram from the Health app, so they would all have identical corrections. The audiogram can come from the AirPod Pro Hearing Test or from your audiologist. Apple claims that when used solely as a hearing aid, a Pair of AirPod Pros should last 6 hours, so three pairs should get you through the day.
The main issue is that the AirPod Pro is only designed for mild or moderate hearing loss. The correction you need may be beyond its capabilities.
I would think two pairs would work just fine, because AirPods charge from their case pretty quickly. And Apple says 5 minutes in the case gives you 1 hour of listening time (which seems to coincide with hearing aid time), so 15 minutes of each bud in the case while you are wearing another would give you ~2-3 more hours, if you want to try it with one pair and see if that gives you enough hearing aid to one ear at a time.
Having done my patriotic duty, I spent the day doing fall lawn work (to avoid checking the news). I gave “Hearing Protection” a good workout. It was excellent w/ the mulching lawn mower, mulching leaves back into my backyard so the trees could use them again. I compared it to a pair of conventional foam ear plugs rated at 30 dB protection. I would estimate “Hearing Protection” reduced it another 20 dB.
The “leaf vac/mulcher” was another story. If it was consistently just sucking up leaves, I think Hearing Protection would have been just as effective here. But since the leaf vac is less selective in what it sucks up, there is the frequent less digestible item that makes an abrupt spike in volume that the docs note are handled less well (It hurt! It seemed like it not only could not cancel the noise, it seemed amplified.) I resorted to conventional plugs for the rest.
But for power tools that make a relatively steady volume noise, such as lawn mowers, table saws, circular saws, drills, etc., I think it can be quite effective.
To avoid the news this evening, I will play my guitar. I have the house to myself. I may disregard hearing protection. Forget eleven, my Blues, Jr. goes to 12.
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Best Buy currently has the AirPods Pro 2 on sale for $169.99. The price is good for ~ 7 more hours.
(posting at 3:45 PM MT)
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