No, you missed the whole point. If you can't reach the triangle in all frequencies, you need to at least have your results shaped like the triangle. That would mean that you would need to turn down the lower frequencies, so they match the high frequencies. The lowest frequency sounds have more power behind them, so if you have them overamplifies they will completely overpower the soft sounds. The low frequencies need to be NO louder than 2000 and 3000 HZ.
It is simply impossible for some types of hearing loss/audiograms to have results shaped like the triangle or even reach the triangle. Since nearly all my residual hearing is in the low frequencies(left corner audiogram) reducing the gains in the lows causes me to be unable to hear. Normal converstation becomes too quiet to be audible and I also don't hear alot of sounds as well. When my HAs were reprogrammed, my current aided audiogram in my sig is the best.
Why should I hear less at any frequency, especially the lows when it's clearly helping me big time? By the way, my speech % is higher with just the lows on max without the mids than with the mids on the max and the lows reduced.
This also means if I were to lose what little hearing I have at 750Hz and 1000Hz, as long as I keep all the lows, my speech % won't drop much. If I were to lose several db in the lows, yet not lose any in the mids, my speech would get alot worse.
I finished reading an article of someone who has a ski slope audiogram where she hears(both ears almost identical) 10db at 250Hz, 50db at 500Hz, 100db at 750Hz, cochlear dead regions above that and her speech score is 58% and she can even use the phone with varying success in her slightly better ear. I read about another person who also has a ski slope audiogram with near normal hearing up to 750Hz, poor hearing at 1000Hz and no hearing above 1500Hz. That person's audiogram was "unaidable" but he made do just fine without HAs and yes he can even hear phones.
I wonder if those two people hear better(even unaided) than I hear aided? Yea I can get down to "normal" hearing in the lows but that's just for quantity, not quality. I am going to read more on this but my impression is that someone who hears 10db unaided, even at a maximum of 250Hz still has normal, good quality hearing that's way better than my aided hearing at the same low frequencies.
One can also conclude that the low frequencies hold the most speech information from the above results and how well those people can still understand speech despite having normal hearing only in the lows with a very steep drop down to nothing around 1000Hz. This is called a ski slope audiogram. I am currently reading more about this and learning. My own aided hearing seems remarkably good even at 1000Hz but drops rapidly down to nothing above 1500Hz. On a piano thud test, I may hear all the keys up to 900Hz loud and clear then 1000Hz is much fainter, 1100Hz is very faint and 1200Hz can't be heard.
Also, show me a single audiogran that has unaided results WORSE than the black line, and is aided into the triangle. It is impossible.
The most powerful HAs have a gain as high as 80db or so(depends on many factors) A loss of up to 105db will be aided to 25db. So yea you are correct. However there's always transposition. Also most of the speech letters/words are in the low frequencies. I hear every letter and if my dad says the F and S 6" from my ear, I hear and differnate those as well. The F and S have alot of energy at 4000Hz but some of the energy of those letters does extend to the mids and lows. I don't hear those letters loud enough at "normal" distance so they appear silent.
My audiologist says what's between your ears is more important than what's in your ears. He says I simply need to train my brain to understand speech and ill achieve big improvements. He says those, even with "alot" of hearing who never train lose their ability to understand speech and that includes those with CIs too.
do you have an audiogram with a speech test? What was his score again? Oh wait, you don't have one, do you?