A Hearing Test Made for the Big City

Mr. McCarthy is deaf in his left ear and uses a hearing aid in his right ear. He was one of the first people to try a new audiovisual hearing test tailor-made for a city that by all accounts never shuts up.

Instead of using beeps, tones and word lists — the more typical way to determine how well a new hearing aid works — the test conducted at the center uses sounds that might be heard in New York: cellphone chats, office discussions, the rumble of Midtown traffic.

from the New York Times

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