In Reply .—We do not believe—as Berliner and Edgerton seem to believe—that there is one correct way to set the level of the signal during speech reception testing. Our own procedure for obtaining a patient's most comfortable level (MCL) follows the sequence suggested in the Minimal Auditory Capabilities (MAC) manual. The patient sets his hearing-aid volume control for comfortable listening while the tester talks with him in a face-to-face situation from about 1 m away. None of our patients to date has employed the highest hearing-aid volume setting in this situation. At this volume-control position, and with the patient sitting approximately 1 m from a speaker system in a standard test suite, the tester presents live, rote speech consisting of such items as numbers and days of the week, pegging the VU meter as close to 0 as possible while manipulating the intensity dial. The patient is asked not to