Wow, a K-AMP, that takes me back!
A K-AMP was a fairly early (mid 90s) Starkey compression amplifier, designed to cushion a user from loud noises. It’s too late for me to remember what the compression ratio was, but I could probably find out.
In any case as a compression amplifier you’d probably like the NAL-NL1* program best on your Destiny. That is a compression program. The NAL-R formula is linear so if you liked a K-AMP, you’d probably not like the NAL-R.
So the first thing I would do with you in run the integrated hearing test that your aids have (after I did all the regular calibration your hearing professional should have done).
This option called Audiogram in the menu on the left of the software is like a mini hearing test that measures the threshold of your hearing. But the test also offers a ULL test, that measures the loudest sounds you want to tolerate. What you are left with is called your dynamic range, the actual hearing you have left at each frequency from quietest to loudest.
By running this test properly at every frequency the software and therefore the aids will have a very good idea as to where you’d like the sound to be.
As for aids cycling on and off, you can adjust the attack and release time. To make them more or less sensitive to sound and make them react quicker or slower.
Those would be my first suggestions. Other than that it would be a matter of me sitting down in front of you and figuring things out. It’s hard to verbalize everything I’d do without seeing a patient, the audiogram, the settings currently in the aids, and a variety of other factors.
But the hearing test idea, that would make a lot of difference, because the software takes a lot of the guesswork out of it.