Comments on ‘‘The negative effect of amplitude compression in multichannel hearing aids in the light of the modulation-transfer function’’ [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 8 3, 2322–2327 (1988)]

According to Plomp [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 83, 2322–2327 (1988)], fast multichannel amplitude compression has a predictably negative effect on speech intelligibility for both normal and impaired listeners. The following letter is a response to that conclusion.