One variation of a method for augmenting sound includes: at a mobile computing device and a connected audio output device, outputting a tone in a hearing test based on a response to the tone entered by a user, generating a hearing profile for the user and corresponding to the mobile computing device and the audio output device receiving an audio signal qualifying the audio signal as a particular audio type from a set of audio types selecting, from a set of sound profiles, a particular sound profile corresponding to the particular audio type at the mobile computing device, transforming the audio signal into a processed audio signal according to the particular sound profile and the hearing profile of the user and outputting the processed audio signal at the connected audio output device.
