It’s the opposite. You think that’s what you want or need to do. And then your wife complains non stop haha. But then you get correctly calibrated hearing aids and you get it back mostly. So no need to modify.

Having said that I do have some custom JH Roxanne’s that they tuned to my audiogram. I just sent it to them and they tuned to meet my needs. That alone makes them sound better than any non tuned to me IEMs.

Yeah I wear JH custom filters with 15db filters in. Helps soooo much. I should probably try the 20db filters.

Welcome to good hearing aids to get it back. I got new ones two weeks ago and hear things I’ve not heard in a while. I nose dive at 4K. For what it’s worth I got phonak 90 life ric’s and love them so far. I did get custom ear molds though and would say that’s 100% worth it.