Thanks for replies, I’ll let you know what the audiologist says.
I had my ears tested and as expected at 61 and attending motorhead gigs when younger, there was some hearing loss on higher frequencies.
However, I also have a Samsung phone that can play wav files via a dragonfly DAC.
The phone has an app for equalising your hearing to different sets of headphones via tones - just like the audiologists.
On my Beyerdynamic T5’s the result was flat - I’d heard every tone, I have3 wondered about taking them to the next tests for a comparison, especially as the ear pieces just seemed like basic ear buds…
Having read this thread- looks like a great opportunity for Focal to develop and market some hearing aids for their aging customers. (Me included).
Focal already have headphones technology, and partnered with some of the ‘Naim for Bentley’ technologies……
Could be a whole new market segment
I volunteer to be a beta tester , as it is my idea.
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We use ReSound DURR1 hearing aids fitted with open domes. They have two main programmes installed by the audiologist, one for general use, and one optimised for music.
In normal use they work pretty well, although the asymmetry of my hearing interferes if there is a wall close to our left side and there is a lot of environmental noise. In other situations they are an improvement that ranges from useful to very good. In crowded environments they have a switch (via Bluetooth app) to further enhance speech clarity at the expense of overall tonal accuracy, this can make the difference to being able to hold a conversation or not when there is a lot of background noise or many conversations going on around us.
The dedicated music programme is remarkably good, although some minor tweaking of the frequency response (again achievable through the app) can be needed with material that has a lot of HF energy, otherwise the top end can sound a little ‘crunchy’. With material that had less HF energy or after switching to a user defined programme with a slight HF cut, the response is better than we could ever have imagined a hearing aid could achieve.
This was our assessment:
Many years ago when my mum was alive I got her a set of headphones that she could plug into the tv as the neighbours were always complaining that they could hear her tv over their own…anyway called in on her one night as I always did and walking up the drive I could hear mums tv are clear as a bell, walked in and found the tv volume flat out and mum sat there with the headphones on but bless her they weren’t plugged in 
always makes me chuckle when I think back to that night, bless her…just thought I would share 
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I had a Raleigh bicycle in the early 1960s with rod brakes. They were pejoratively referred to as “National Health Brakes” by my friends!
If you have one ear with reasonable good hearing (i.e. only ‘mild’ hearing loss) some ICBs won’t allow prescription of hearing aids unless there are specific additional reasons.