Ratings of discomfort not uncomfortable (not u.) to extremely uncomfortable (ext. u.) of the normal-hearing (NH) and hearing-impaired (HI) subjects for all nine stimuli as listed in Table 1. For the hearing-impaired subjects, the first condition is without hearing aids (HI), the second (HI, INR OFF) and third condition (HI, INR ON) with hearing aids programmed with the settings FIT INR OFF and FIT INR OFF, respectively. For the conditions with hearing aids, the results of all six types of hearing aids were averaged.