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by mgerdts7 hours ago |
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upvoteby retrac3 hours ago|
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It's the Bluetooth; when Bluetooth connects most hearing aids reduce the environmental volume slightly so you can hear the streaming content. Some app has started to play audio (perhaps silently). I notice it on some websites.

How much HAs reduce environmental sounds when streaming is configurable by the way, but only by the audiologist if you don't have your own programmer. I don't like the effect and prefer to just turn down the volume manually.

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upvoteby mgerdts1 hours ago|
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Is this tunable per hearing program? When in an even moderately noisy environment I find myself switching to AirPods if I’m streaming. I would love for the HA to give separate controls for BT audio vs ambient like AirPods do.
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upvoteby jonathanlb4 hours ago|
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I wear Phonak CI processors. It's not just you. I've also experienced the volume drop on a few sites and apps. The Amazon iOS app does this. Each time I leave the app, ambient audio returns to normal.
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upvoteby phoghed4 hours ago|
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They’re kindly turning down the background noise so you can focus on shopping and buying more stuff.
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upvoteby lenerdenator3 hours ago|
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It'd be interesting to see what a lawyer specializing in disability law would think of that.

At least in the US, I could see that being something that the ADA prohibits.

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upvoteby BoorishBears2 hours ago|
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I noticed my MBP had a periodic stutter sometimes: every 3 seconds or so the mouse would lock up for a few milliseconds.

I tracked it down to American Express's login page (auto loads if you leave the site idle) relying on Akamai's anti bot measures polling some web Bluetooth feature, causing Chrome to trigger a BT scan: https://castle.io/research/fingerprint-harvesting-in-the-bot...

Turning off Bluetooth solves it, but that's not a great solution when using a Bluetooth mouse... and it sounds like it might be causing your issue too.

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upvoteby KennyBlanken4 hours ago|
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It seems far more likely that your cheap hearing aids are sensitive to certain RF frequencies and the background javascript is causing different patterns of load on the phone's CPU.

I would suspect that this only happens when you're charging and it is likely the charger or cable not being properly shielded.

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upvoteby kevin_thibedeau34 minutes ago|
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Audio is being generated and the BT device is prioritizing it by changing its internal mixer settings. Same as audio prompts over music in a car. This could be mitigated by detecting silence in the audio stream but this is anti-consumer behavior that needlessly drains batteries with excess transceiver activity.
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upvoteby mgerdts3 hours ago|
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The cheap hearing aid cost $750 for one and is substantially the same as the same thing sold from standalone audiologists for much more. These are not cheap over the counter devices.

Charging only happens while in the cradle, not while worn.

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upvoteby rrr_oh_man1 hours ago|
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> cheap hearing aids

I don't think you know what you are talking about

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