When HN users recommended it
1 HN user recommended this in 2017, in one comment.
20072026
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Hearing Rechargeable rAdjustable Amplifier Audiphone
Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.
Anecdotal and I'm in the UK but you can get them from £10 up, eg. this one for £20 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hearing-Rechargeable-rAdjustable-Am... but my dad pays £2000+ for similar looking but much fancier state of the art ones.
Reasons
- better quality - the good ones are small computers that use very little power and try to pick out voices from background etc. Apparently the challenging bit for him is dinner parties where you are trying to hear one voice out of several people talking.
- it includes an Audiologist - he's 87 and needs a bit of help on the tech side
- I guess he has the money and values hearing more than the 2k.
It would be cool if computer analysis could understand the several conversations at the party and you could click on the one you wanted or point that way or similar. Maybe in the future, probably won't be cheap.