Cost planning - core renovation of farmhouse / country house

Have you ever thought about having a custom hearing protection made at the hearing aid acoustician? It might not be a permanent solution, but at least you could enjoy times like swimming or similar a bit more again.

Are those kinds of in-ear buds? I haven't heard of them, but I quickly googled it. It would be an option, although it wouldn’t help me much for swimming, for example, if they are in-ear, since I find anything I have to put in my ears extremely uncomfortable. Even when I want to listen to music myself on a plane or so, I actually almost always wear over-ear headphones. For the noise disturbances at night, I could theoretically use earplugs, but with a small child in the house, that doesn’t really work either. I want to hear when he wakes up and cries at night.

Have you ever thought about having a custom ear protection made by the hearing aid acoustician?

I would assume that he is rather trained to adapt aids to organic peculiarities and would be less able to do anything against a more psychological "oversensitivity to sound" (?)

I would guess that he is rather trained to adapt aids to organic peculiarities and will be less able to do anything against a more mental "sensitiveness" (?)

wrong thought. if you need really good hearing protection, you go there.

Are those such in-ear buds? I haven't heard of them before, but I googled it briefly. It would be an option, although for swimming, for example, it wouldn't help me if they are in-ear, because I find anything I have to put in my ears extremely uncomfortable. Also, if I want to listen to music myself on a plane or something, I almost always wear over-ear headphones. For the noise disturbances at night, I could theoretically also use earplugs, but with a small child in the house, that really doesn't work either. I want to hear when he wakes up at night and cries.

They are certainly not for every situation. At night, for example. But for swimming or tinkering in the garden, they could work. Because they are tailored to the ear canal, they are actually quite comfortable and not disturbing like, for example, regular headphones.

wrong thought. those who need really good hearing protection go there.

Of course, hearing protection from the hearing aid acoustician is better than the "headphones" that should be included in the box with the leaf blower. But even the custom model can only reduce sound pressure, at least from a professional also with an individual frequency response. The feeling that "someone is subjecting me to a disturbance of my peace" is, however, hardly graspable technically/organically.

Because they are adapted to the ear canal, they are actually quite comfortable and not disturbing like regular headphones, for example

That’s cool, I’ll definitely check that out. I had already thought about buying some Anker Soundcore ANC headphones, they cost around €55 and if it works, they should be able to filter out bass lines in music well. I can test that with my Bose next time I’m outside with music, to see if it works. They do have a cable, so they are probably unsuitable for gardening (I have already tried that), but I can test ANC again with them. I should be able to find one or another interim solution, but I don’t want to live like that permanently. My husband is less sensitive about such things and also says that it is unusually loud here and that noise from outside comes unusually often. Maybe it really is the house. But that doesn’t help us now either. We have been here for over a year now and feel less and less comfortable with each passing day. But now the topic is turning again to this endless thing “volume.” That’s simply subjective and there are a hundred factors involved. It is also not (anymore) the only reason why we want to leave.