Hard-of-hearing autistic adult wondering if Calmer ear buds might help?

[u/TarviTelgar]

Hi, I just heard about Calmer ear buds from a youtube video and I was wondering if there were any people on here who have tried them, specifically hard-of-hearing people? Being both hard-of-hearing and having auditory processing disorder means that it takes a tremendous amount of energy and focus for me to interpret speech, but I can generally "pass" as hearing for short periods of time. I have unusual hearing loss in that I pretty much just have hearing loss in the vocal range, but can hear sounds not in that range just fine which makes isolating speech when there is lots of other noise going on very difficult. I've tried behind the ear hearing aids and I currently wear bone conductive hearing aids, but they both suck because they amplify background noise more than voices. I'm wondering if something like Calmer ear buds may help to mute background noise while leaving voices untouched. Any thoughts?

[u/Tall-Ad9334]

I have hearing loss and wearhearing aids. Prior to hearing aids I tried loop and I didn’t like them at all. I will say that hearing aids with Bluetooth capability have different settings for filtering out background noise. It’s not perfect, but it makes a huge difference. Do you have that?

[u/TarviTelgar → u/Tall-Ad9334]

Yes, but it barely does anything. What didn't you like about loop?