{"id":258152,"date":"2025-09-16T19:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horendgoed.nl\/geen-onderdeel-van-een-categorie\/wind-noise-in-your-ears-how-annoying-it-can-be\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:33:15","slug":"wind-noise-in-your-ears-how-annoying-it-can-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horendgoed.nl\/en\/products\/wind-noise-in-your-ears-how-annoying-it-can-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind noise in your ears – how annoying it can be"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m Sandra, owner of Horend Goed and wife of Robert. The other day I was out and about again with our two dogs: Welmoet Bumpie, the Golden Retriever who really doesn\u2019t retrieve anything, and Cornelis Dribbel, our stubborn Corgi. We live beautifully on the West Frisian seawall, but there is one disadvantage: there is always wind. <\/p>\n\n

And you can tell. What I normally walk through the meadows in twenty minutes takes me half an hour on such a day. For me it feels like twenty steps forward and five backward. Spot makes himself small and bravely faces the storm. Bumpie, meanwhile, fiddles through life. You know dogs (and people) like that: full wind? We give it some extra speed!<\/em> Well, so I haven\u2019t. Certainly not on a bicycle. Anyway, to each his own. <\/p>\n\n

So that wind is not mellow. It rattles so hard in your ears that it feels like 110 dB is thundering directly into your eardrums. No conversation possible, just noise and clacking. And then I thought, oh yes, this is exactly complaint number one among people with hearing aids in this kind of weather<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n

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Hearing aid and wind: not an easy combination<\/h2>\n\n

If you wear a hearing aid, that wind is often picked up even better. Especially with an open fitting \u2013 a thin tube or speaker in the ear with a dome that does not close off completely \u2013 the wind blows right through. The microphones of your hearing aid record not only speech, but also these air currents. And that sounds anything but cozy. <\/p>\n\n

Many clients then say, \u201cThat never bothered me before my hearing aid.\u201d<\/em> And that\u2019s partly true: You probably just didn\u2019t hear things as sharply anymore. With a hearing aid, you suddenly hear everything again \u2013 even the things you\u2019d rather not hear. Wind is a notorious example of this. <\/p>\n\n

And honestly: it\u2019s also irritating. You come in with a complaint, then you want a solution. We can fly to the moon and telephones are tiny, but a hearing aid that always filters out wind noise unfortunately does not yet exist. <\/p>\n\n

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What manufacturers do against wind noise<\/h2>\n\n

Fortunately, manufacturers are not sitting still. There are now very clever techniques that suppress wind noise. <\/p>\n\n