Dan:I have clinical hearing problems as well. If only certain accents bother you go to the RC voices page for controllers and chatter pilots and play the samples. Once identified turn the worst off and another of the remaining will be substituted.To identify a voice click the name and a country flag will be shown with the voice playing. The speed slider should be maximum right for the slowest playing according to what I hear but you can verify that. The Master slider will adjust the speed for all voices.The default slider positions are left to reduce the "robotic" sound of voices.Sara Thompson has a southern US accent (Memphis) as does John Dekker (Atlanta but less of a drawl - jd). Doug Thompson is a retired controller now living near Memphis but is from Ohio with a lower Midwest accent. Doug is the voice of the critique person. Francesco is Italian as I recall. Burgess and Proudfoot are UK. I'll let you investigate the rest as we have additional international accents. Just pick the best voices for you as their natural spectrum varies.To assist with my hearing problem I use an amplifier on my PC and use headsets adjusting the equalizers as necessary. I do not use a hearing aid with headsets. You might want to try a hearing aid with your headsets if it has that capability. I don't use that feature. You might want to investigate a ten or fifteen band equalizer from these lists:http://www.mcmelectronics.com/browse/Equalizers/0000000109 - most are rack mounts but you could still use them.http://www.mcmelectronics.com/search.aspx?C=0000000001&K=equalizers&T=R a complete search under audio for all equipment related.In your area there may be other sources. You can see the cost gamut gives many choices.

Hi Ron, thanks for the tips. I explained above your helpful comment that it really isn't really a particular sounds set, but the way certain sound clips are. Again, this isn't something that is an RC issue, but my hearing issue isn't really technically a hearing issue. Haha, I know this must be confusing, I will explain a bit since you took a great time to explain the above and I appreciate that, but now feel guilty, haha.I have a "Form" of insomnia. Some nights I sleep great, a whole 4-6 hrs. Most nights I average one or two, and some I don't sleep at all and just go into my next day. Of course the body needs sleep and will effect the body in weird ways when it doesn't get enough. One downside to sleep deprivation isn't really sound but the way my brain seperates frequencies. Most people hear things at their set volumes or frequencies, if I am on say my 4th day with 2hrs of sleep total in those 4 days, then all sounds/frequencies are pretty much interpreted or presented at the same volume. It's hard to really explain but in example of the sim I hear the engine sound, evironment, ATC equally, or a better way to describe it is more like annoyingly. One last example is I was sitting on my couch yesterday watching a movie. There was a boat on the pond right near my house getting their last few hours in of fun before winter weather hits and no matter the volume of my TV, I couldn't drowned out the volume of the boat. My sister was also talking on the other side of the room, but for me at those times, it all mixes together as just combined noise.It doesn't pose any real life issues for me, and is just an annoyance. Overall I enjoy it since I get more done in a day than most would like to :)Thanks again, Ron!

Hi Ron, thanks for the tips. I explained above your helpful comment that it really isn't really a particular sounds set, but the way certain sound clips are. Again, this isn't something that is an RC issue, but my hearing issue isn't really technically a hearing issue. Haha, I know this must be confusing, I will explain a bit since you took a great time to explain the above and I appreciate that, but now feel guilty, haha.I have a "Form" of insomnia. Some nights I sleep great, a whole 4-6 hrs. Most nights I average one or two, and some I don't sleep at all and just go into my next day. Of course the body needs sleep and will effect the body in weird ways when it doesn't get enough. One downside to sleep deprivation isn't really sound but the way my brain seperates frequencies. Most people hear things at their set volumes or frequencies, if I am on say my 4th day with 2hrs of sleep total in those 4 days, then all sounds/frequencies are pretty much interpreted or presented at the same volume. It's hard to really explain but in example of the sim I hear the engine sound, evironment, ATC equally, or a better way to describe it is more like annoyingly. One last example is I was sitting on my couch yesterday watching a movie. There was a boat on the pond right near my house getting their last few hours in of fun before winter weather hits and no matter the volume of my TV, I couldn't drowned out the volume of the boat. My sister was also talking on the other side of the room, but for me at those times, it all mixes together as just combined noise.It doesn't pose any real life issues for me, and is just an annoyance. Overall I enjoy it since I get more done in a day than most would like to :)Thanks again, Ron!

HelloI can Identify with how you describe lack of sleep with hearing.I work 12 hour shifts 6am-6am and if I don't get sufficient sleep I lose the ability to tune my guitar by ear, after a good sleep my pitch recognition is spot on again.I guess something has to give as the body tries to cope.

Understand, Dan. Been there!RC uses the wave channel directly in the Win mixer. In the FS mixer you can turn down distracting sounds as needed. Headsets will keep room environment noises down. This leaves you with one really dominating sound (RC ATC) to contend with.On really troublesome days with RC you can turn AI chatter off. I assume you already have the random pre-recorded chatter off. That just leaves you and the controller and no distracting sounds. I'd keep the aircraft engines at a very low sound (not unrealistic for many swept wing aircraft where the cockpit is well ahead of the engines).Play with various audio balance settings for best fit. If your PC audio synthesizes surround sound even with two speakers disable that feature as it will aggravate the condition of concentrating on a single source even if you are using headsets.I'm a retired TV broadcast technician and when analog TV sets added that synthesized surround sound option to their stereo output I and many listeners complained about the lack of speech comprehension of the main subjects.