Pardon?. .. .Seriously Chick -I've just spoken to my 70 year old uncle who does wear a hearing aid normally but finds his hearing in the air better!! He doesn't wear his hearing aid in the air and finds normal DC(David Clarke) headphones OK. Same applies to the telpehone which he can hear better without his aid. assume it's something to do witht hte ambient noise?. .. .Rgds. .DOC