User Manual

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HAS THE WORLD ALWAYS BEEN
THIS LOUD?
HEARING YOUR SURROUNDINGS
When first wearing your Eargo devices, keep the volume low. Your
brain will likely be hearing sounds you may not have heard for some
time. Your brain will be like a kid who’s been cooped up in a car for
way too long suddenly being cut loose on a beach. Just running
around hearing everything it can, giggling happily to itself. Anyway,
our point is that little sounds—like water running, chip bags crinkling,
and paper crumpling—may suddenly seem loud.
Your brain needs a little time to get used to hearing these
high-frequency sounds again. It probably hasn’t heard them for
a long time. Give it a little while. The first weeks with your Eargo
devices will be a time of adjustment. These sounds will begin to
fade into the background as your brain relearns which ones are
important and which can be ignored.