I have the other issue of high frequency hearing loss from military service. The loud sound just amplifies the bass tones and drowns out my effort to hear the treble.
I need CC to follow a movie.
I will never forget that moment, at Lane Army Heliport RVN, 12 hours ahead of DC time, listening on Armed Forces radio, the transmitted sound of Neil Armstrong's voice as he descended down those stairs on the lunar lander.
It was not a global event, It was a truly American event, inspired by JFK and fulfilled by devoted Americans using slide rules, rudimentary computers and seat of their pants ability.
I have similar hearing loss, though mine is from bad genes. I can’t hear movie voice tracks at any volume. Higher volume just increases the noise. I can piece together conversations, mostly from context. I can’t even listen to stock reports on the radio since I can’t tell the difference between ‘up’ and ‘off’.
I had graduated from college just before the summer of the first human lunar landing. Several of us similarly broke ‘graduates’ went to the apartment of the only person we knew who owned a color TV to watch, even though images from the moon were B&W. It was a once-in-a-lifetime event.