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mr.72 wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote: How can you maintain adequate situational awareness when you are deaf to your surroundings?

Well you can't. So you use something like this only in a controlled environment where unimpeded hearing of ambient sound is not important.

Thank you for clarifying. I did not think you were one of the numb minded people walking around with their ithings in their ears all the time.

Anygunanywhere

mr.72 wrote:
I use in-ear monitors with custom molds for work and also with my iPod and they are nearly invisible enough that I get people coming up and talking to me all the time while I am wearing them and I can't hear a thing they say until I take them out.

I am curious.

How can you maintain adequate situational awareness when you are deaf to your surroundings? I am near to the point of needing hearing aids and it bothers me. I am constantly checking around because I "almost" hear something and the tinnitus is difficult to deal with sometimes.

Anygunanywhere