Anyone experienced combining earbuds as hearing aid and music player?

I don't think this is a good move as most hearing aids have software to tweak the audio. There are some hearing aids that say made for Iphone on them, and one supposes that these interface via blue tooth with minimal latency. Some ear buds have listen through and noise cancelling settings of course. Brian

I might have thought a local inductive loop might be the answer to inject the music. Are they an either or, or can hearing aids sum its inputs?

It won't be stereo though!

Your question is interesting. It would seem logical for hearing aid manufacturers to include Bluetooth. I assume from your comment they don’t.

I recall they used to include ( and perhaps still do) a coil to couple to a loop transmitter. Loop transmitters were sometimes installed in banks etc. If you taught in a special unit for the hearing impaired your used a system to couple to a loop system in some units. ( I spent a short time teaching while training in such a unit.) Plus their worked with normal phones ( not sure about mobiles). Domestic systems were also available to connect to things like a TV. I repaired one for a friend years ago.

I’ve no idea if loop systems are still used. Bluetooth is far superior, at least for 1 to 1 links.

I don’t like the kind of ear thing that fits in the ear ( I only use them for hobby use / music etc). I prefer either the kind which clips over the ear- I use that for amateur radio ( a single one) or a pair with my iPod when walking. They should work with an in ear hearing aid. The ones I have came from EBay and I think Aldi. The latter are surprisingly good - good enough all in all for music but not Hifi. Mine are wired, purely as, at the time, battery ones weren’t that good and I tend not to remember to charge them.

Every two years or so, my right ear gets bunged up with wax. I go deaf on that side for a week or so until I can get it cleared ( drops and a visit to have the wax removed). I find the headphones help while watching TV etc.

Somebody mentioned that his (wife?) had some bluetooth hearing aids, but they were expensive, I think it was this brand?

Loop ssytems are still in serious use. My new hearing aids, only 6 weeks old, have loop and Bluetooth. You need to log in for Bluetooth - not much use in a punlic place like a hall or even a station ticket sales point,

Thanks for all the detailed advice on this subject so far. It's going to make the decisions much easier.

My earholes need clearing out more and more often these days. my most recent series of attempts have involver olive oil, baby oil, and hydrogen peroxide 3% solution followed by a good sluicing out with water. Nothing doing this time and though my wife can now see no obstruction, hearing is close to zero in one ear and somewhat reduced in the other. After flying it's taking me longer and longer to recover hearing. I'm going to ask Greta if I can borrow her yacht in future.

I use that, every month or so, in a little spouted squirt bottle whilst in the bath. I lean my head to one side, ear upper most, squirt in in, hen leave until the stops, then rinse. I never have ear wax troubles as a result, since I began using it.

To the OP and the original question (no longer on my newsreader so sorry for not quoting correctly):

Check out the iPhone Live Listen facility.

It's not as good as a properly balanced set of modern hearing aids but allows the listener to hear speech either through bluetooth connected air pods or cable connected headhones. My other half uses the feature as a stopgap when listening to music. Rather than take out her air pods and fit her dedicated hearing devices, to join in a conversation she will swap to the Live Listen feature.

Nick

If the O/P is not an iThing user, but an Android user, then the latest Google Buds Pro have a similar feature, rather than noise cancelling to block out background noise, they can enhance the external sound on top of any music etc that's playing.

I've no idea how this would compare to proper hearing aids, probably not well, but I should think you'd add a zero to the price for hearing aids, it might be "good enough"?