Not just with mild hearing loss, I have a moderate-severe hearing loss and some pitches are pretty much a dead loss, others are painful even at low volume. I have to find that elusive combination of pitch and volume which I can hear when it's trying to alert me to something but it does not feel like an arrow in the head if it catches me at a pitch where I have serious recruitment. If it makes a loud sound into my hearing aid the combined output is going to be somewhat louder than a jet engine. Pitch REALLY matters. Just ask my husband who came staggering in with severe ear pain when I was innocently clicking on buttons which "didn't do anything" on a frequency curve chart. Apparently they produced a screaming tone. Who knew?