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Exactly the same here but additionally hampered by a hearing deficiency in the frequency range of the female voice. I have had ear infection problems and few hearing tests that all show this deficit but also very acute hearing in other ranges. When tired I get snappy if I have to keep saying “sorry/what/ or please make sure you are looking at me when talking to me”. There have been a number or occasions when I am told I have been told something. Probably I had just assumed that if what I was hearing being mumbled in another room over other noises had been important the speaker would have ensured I had actually heard an understood the message.
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^^ Ditto, precisely! Now I have a name for the problem I have been struggling with for years. At its worst in a crowded pub with echoing acoustics. Oddly, I can still hear a sparrow fart at 200m+ in quiet countryside and am always first to hear people talking in a woodland, is this consistent with you guys? Pardon? What?