“You will never find me on the range without ear plugs and a headset over them.”
Thanks for the info. Have you found, through audiological testing, that the doubling up of protection on the range may have prevented further hearing loss? Thanks so much!
The muffling will not prevent further hearing loss. But it will help to muffle sounds that would aggravate hearing losses.
As you age, ou are going to have more hearing loss, and your audiologist will tell you that, but the rate of loss can be diminished, IMO.
Mere across-the-board amplification of normal environments may actually promote loss, by hurtfully overaccentuating loudness in the frequency range(s) that you do not need more loudness, in order to get the amplification in a range that you do need it.
True hearing aids are set to match your tested needs. Hearing aids are only devices to compensate for loss, according to the frequency spectrum in which your loss has occurred. As time goes on, a hearing aid will need readjustment to accommodate your hearing spectrum changes, AFIK. (I am a scientist, actually a spectroscopist, but not a trained audiologist)
BTW, because of my losses, tinnitus has been with me all the time for fifty years or more. And in different frequencies in my left side than my right side. You just have to get used to it, and ignore it.