When Sony said it was sending me a pair of its hearing-enhancing earbuds (the CRE-E10s), it was as if the acoustic gods finally answered my prayers. Cue the heavenly choir sound effect — after all, I can finally hear it in all of its divine glory.
Now, I’m not as deaf as Hellen Keller, but I don’t have the best hearing either. My Netflix captions stay turned on because I often miss every other word without them. All I hear is a garbled mess when it comes to people muttering gossip under their breath. And I always seem to encounter whispery speakers who make me wish I had a made-for-humans remote control to turn up their volume. As it turns out, Sony manifested that wish into reality (you’ll see how later).
