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https://www.wellandgood.com/do-headphones-increase-ear-wax/

What model?

If that's happening, I think you're sticking the wrong end in your ear.

It’s the natural course of action. The EU is the biggest economic bloc on the planet. Everyone wants a piece of it, and since they make it for Europe it makes sense to sell it as is for everything else.

The only thing that hasn’t stuck is GDPR, outside of the EU.

India does follow EU policy in technology as much as possible, so maybe it’s right

The EU enforces a standard, and it spreads to other markets, either coz its more economical for the companies and/or coz other countries have had the same frustrations.

Useful for creating low to moderate hearing loss by packing your ear wax against your eardrum

Any earbuds or headphones can cause hearing loss if you play them loudly enough. That's like blaming the fork for getting you fat.

What is it?

I played in a metal band for years and used hearing protection at a grand total of 2 practices and 0 shows. Hearing loss is moderate and these help a ton with my hearing, it was pretty eye opening. Plus it’s nice to turn noise cancellation on and turn off my annoying coworkers sometimes

the line between hearing aids and earbuds has been vanishing for years already, my grandfather has one that let's him directly stream his phone audio to it for phone calls. he uses it to listen to spotify!..

>social isolation sticks

amazing term lol, also same

Are these the hearing aids I keep reading about in those ads that doctors are amazed by?

Guess what!? More trash! Oh but murica don't think about that.

All hail the Brussels Effect.

Study: Airpods are this close (24 months) to being full fledged un-repairable trash. Apple gets proud of their green washing, making people belive they help Def people, when the tech its 50 years old.

Not really that different from Sony or Samsung's equivalent in this respect, not sure why they're singling it out, the "improved hearing" is simply compression of loud and quiet noises so they all play at closer volume levels than the ear would naturally hear them at. Nothing ultra high tech going on.

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Former hearing aid supplier here. Headphpnes/Buds make things louder, which helps, but not necessarily at the frequencies that your hearing loss is at. Real hearing aids can adjust the volume of certain frequencies so that it's not only making sound louder but clearer for the wearer.

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Isn't Apple's non noise-isolating earbuds a major cause of hearing loss?

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What?

Try taking off your case. A friend of mine had the same issue and a different case solved it.