Just adding to this, for the general audience, hearing aids are thousands of dollars, and virtually all users describe the industry as a "racket." Features that improve their functionality, such as adapters for Bluetooth etc., are dedicated hardware modules with proprietary interfaces, and expensive too.

Also, everybody I know who has hearing aids eventually ends up getting them at Costco.

That’s what I’ve heard too. And they didn’t like the ones they had to get in the end, they didn’t work well but that was all insurance would cover.

But if they’re $4000 a pair, that’s _sixteen_ pairs of AirPods 2 Pro. Assuming you don’t get them on sale.

So if you lose/break ‘em every 6 months, which seems quite excessive, that’s still 8 years to break even with “real” hearing aids.

And that’s not to mention the fact that you can buy replacement individual AirPods or cases cheaper than a full set. Or just get AppleCare so replacements are even cheaper if you tend to lose/damage them a lot.

Even if you buy them and they convince you hearing aids would be useful but you want more traditional hearing aids, it still seems like it might be a good value. Compared to risking $4000 on something you might not even feel is that useful to you.

And/or Buy the AirPods Pros at Costco. Headphones fall under their standard return policy (or did as of about 2 years ago) so if they break, you have quick and easy recourse.