The cacophony continues...Everything in the kitchen sounds different. The gas, the oven, the kettle and the extractor all have a quality of treble that I haven't heard before and it is confusing, since I still don't have any spatial sound sense. I'll have to re-learn the sounds.
Cooking Richard Olney's calves kidneys with mushrooms and a pilaf was a bit ragged as I got distracted with all the different sounds. What is good is the oven's beeper. Previously I couldn't hear this if I wasn't in close proximity to the oven. But it now cuts through the rest of the noise. What's also good is that I heard the front door buzzer.
Conversation, however, was brilliant. Usually I have to get my wife to come around to the left side of me to be able to hear her when I'm cooking and the extractor fan is going but I was able to hear her when I was at the stove even with the extractor on.
A in a similar vein I was able to hear her when the TV was on as well. I usually have the TV on in a setting that she and my son find too loud. But with the TV adaptor I can have the TV sound in my ear and still have ambient sound from the room as well.
It is literally years since I have been able to concentrate on and respond to two different speech streams simultaneously. This is good...
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