Originally Posted by !!Comatoa$ted
It is called presbycusis, and it always seems to be the higher frequencies that people loose the ability to hear first. The thing I learned from working with the elderly is to lower the tone of your voice, and not increase the volume, in most cases this works, in others you just have to yell. I think in many cases it is more common for one ear to lose hearing faster than the other ear, I forget whether it is the right or left one that usually goes first.
Can you speak into my good ear please?
Slvoid is right. NYC will yield a higher reading. I had trouble finding a place in the City that I could carry on a cell phone conversation without asking the other person to speak louder. I rarely have that problem here.