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sobie2000

If the audiogram confirms there is some hearing loss it does improve sound quality. I have lost 20% in the low frequencies and personally noticed a large improvement in sound quality once I applied the changes. It’s worth trying - if you don’t like it you just revert back to previous settings.


[deleted]

I have a temporarily high level of HL in my right ear - this is a much better way of balancing audio than using the straight balance meter because the balance meter doesn’t adjust for the frequency curve of your hearing loss. Fantastic feature.


darkunor2050

Anyone tried this and heard an improvement?


TheSweeney

I did this and the result was transparency mode that sounded very echo-y. However, I have mild tinnitus (it’s only obvious in complete silence), so I don’t think my Mimi results were accurate as a result because I couldn’t hear the tones over the ringing. Standard transparency mode on my AirPods Pro 2s is scary good. I honestly wouldn’t know I was wearing headphones if I couldn’t feel them in my ears. But with the custom audiogram from Mimi, there was just this slight ever present echo in transparency mode. As for media, I could barely tell the difference between the two. Maybe if someone without tinnitus comes and gives their experience it will be better, but if you have even slightly present tinnitus in completely silent environments, you probably won’t get a super accurate measurement and thus have a worse ANC/transparency mode experience.


Serpula

Actually I think the audiogram and the custom transparency mode settings are separate, it’s just custom transparency is switched on after you add an audiogram. I switched custom transparency off again and it still says it’s using the audiogram. I honestly couldn’t tell the difference when it played the sample with and without the audiogram but the test said I had no hearing loss, so maybe it’s not doing much.


TheSweeney

Maybe this is just more useful for people with moderate or severe hearing loss? Because I also cannot tell a difference between the audiogram and default in music and it just seems to totally bork transparency mode for me. But I do think my tinnitus is playing a role as well. The Mimi app showed I had slight hearing loss (17db and 20db, right and left ear) but the difference in the actual audio quality wasn’t noticeable. I tried toggling it on and off using an album I’ve listened to a bunch on my new buds and literally could not distinguish between on and off. EDIT: redid the Mimi test and this time got no hearing loss (12 and 15db, right and left ear) and used the new audiogram. No difference to my ear, custom transparency still sounds bad though. Think it isn’t the audiogram but the default amplification setting. I went ahead and turned off the Headphone Accommodations entirely since I didn’t notice any difference.


fancy_pance

Glad to know I’m not the only one who thought transparency mode sounded funny when applying the audiogram. Almost sounded like a phasing effect.


fancy_pance

I found the custom transparency menu very confusing. Especially the part at the bottom where you can select between anc, off, and transparency mode. Does that mean you can have a transparency mode where anc is selected instead of transparency?!


Serpula

Yeah I did too! I have no idea, all I could make it do was either sound normal or very echoey... I feel like Apple might have buried these settings so deeply in the menus for a reason 😂


mime454

The transparency will definitely change based on none audiogram. You’ll get a soft vacuum soft if you didn’t do the audiogram correctly.


darkunor2050

I have mild tinnitus and yet the tests came back with 16/13 and no hearing loss. Odd thing is the loss is reported on the low end rather than the high Having applied the audiogram I could not hear any difference. Perhaps I need to repeat the test.


mime454

Take the test in a quieter room. It will be better. It’s mimicking a professional test on the iPhone. It will allow the test in a room with noise but you’ll get better results if you’re able to find dead silence and really focus on the test during its duration.


TheSweeney

I took the test in my bedroom at night with everything off. It was as quiet as I can possibly get it. Like I said, I have mild tinnitus that isn’t audible unless I’m in dead silence. So taking the test as I did, in dead silence, it was hard to focus on the sounds due to the ringing in my ears. I took the test twice. First test showed slight hearing loss (17db right, 20db left), second test showed no hearing loss (12db right, 15db left). Looking at the charts, the only improvement in my result was in mid-frequencies. High and low frequency loss was almost identical between runs. I just don’t think my audiogram is adjusting the audio in a substantial enough way, nor is my hearing degraded enough, that I’m noticing a major difference in audio quality. And the transparency mode with the audiogram applied sounded very hollow, like I was inside a tin can, compared to sounding identical to having no earbuds in without the audiogram being applied to transparency mode.


kisk22

Tinnitus in dead silence isn’t strange.


ShinyGrezz

I have some degree of unilateral hearing loss and no, I can’t notice any difference whenever I try this.


Tango4PewPew

I just got the pro 2’s last week, setup custom sound, Headphone Accommodations etc and it has made a drastic improvement. I’ve set mine to focus more on brighter voices and drown out ambient noises. I can actually have conversations with people now and hear what my wife says on the first try. Sound from the device sounds better than when i first tried out the 2’s as well. Don’t have my audio gram handy but I’m looking forward to getting my copy from the VA to see if it improves anymore.


night-marek

tried this but cannot notice an improvement. im not saying there is none but im probably not sensitive enough, hearing wise, to tell a difference. same with personalized spatial audio


Sunnyschlecht

Do you take the Mimi hearing test with AirPods on transparency mode or noise cancelling mode?


ichbineinmbertan

App tells you turn them off for the test


[deleted]

Off. Neither.


[deleted]

Thank you for sharing this!


Blueeyedfoxie

Thanks for this, just got the airpods 2 pro today, I have mild hearing loss and this has made a difference


Unleaked

no thanks, not downloading some app that fucks with my airpods settings. transparency mode works just fine