Where Oh Where Did the Mute Button Go?

Hearing aids can be programmed for better and for worse.

Imagine you are walking down the street and you could tone down the intensely piercing siren, or keep the hot rod ghetto blaster from ripping your head off.

For me, one of the most immediately effective controls on my old hearing aids is the mute button. A quick press on the mute button is how I survive the assaults of city life, the approaching siren, the blaring, jacked-up, “look at me” aggression emitting from some idiot’s car. The mute button is also how I can concentrate reading or writing when there is ongoing ambient distraction.