I am not deaf, but this is triggering a pet peeve.

It seems a pretty common occurrence that I will be walking into a restaurant, bar, airport, doctor's office, or whatever, and there will be a TV on a news channel with the sound muted or very low. For F's sake, put the captioning on! What's wrong with you?!?

I lived with a deaf man for a few months and one thing I noticed is he would often forget to turn off the water in the kitchen.

He didn't watch TV at all and was not at all respectful when someone was watching or listening to something. Just constant interruptions.

Pretty sure that depends entirely on the individual. Since being deaf (or blind for that matter) isn't as binary as it appears there are various degrees of hearing impairment. Perhaps one person is completely deaf, while another is still able to perceive certain frequencies, and yet another just needs it to be really fucking loud but if it is they hear just fine.

From my personal experience with a nearly deaf acquaintance they are using a special kind of hearing aid they can tie into their devices via Bluetooth. So they have the sound sent directly to the device specifically configured to allow them to hear.

I had a friend in high school who had an amazing sound system. He was deaf.

I asked him and he explained that he could feel many of the sounds. So while he couldn’t hear the finest details, there was a lot he could make out.

yes. you can feel bass.

I would expect them to watch at the lowest volume level. The "muted" icon on screen would me annoy too much.

My mom has quite severe hearing loss but is not totally deaf. She uses TV captioning and generally can't tell whether the TV sound is on or off. I generally want it to be off because it is annoying, so when she leaves it on by accident, I just shut it off and she doesn't notice or anyway doesn't care.

I imagine that for the sound to be felt by deaf people, they would have neighbours banging on their doors in vain to get them to lower the volume, unless they're only aiming for subwoofer sounds which begs the question, do deaf people invest in sound systems?

I'm Deaf and don't care for sounds or the bass most of the time. That's just me though. I know some Deaf people who love listening to music with headsets or playing video games with headsets. There's a spectrum.

My stepson is profoundly hard of hearing so he'll crank that shit up to 11. His Bluetooth hearing aides are excellent when he's listening to something privately and you often can't tell anything is playing over them (which he'll do pretty often while having a conversation because he lip reads) but if he wants to share a video or music he'll crank that shit way up.