I’m not by any means saying all reviews should be like this or that this is a fantastic review, but it really does make a change to see people actualy using the devices and talking about their pro’s and con’s as they experience them, rather than the usual suspects parroting all the same marketing material that the company has again and again. If you take some of the reviews on HA’s and actually analyse what is new compared to what has already been stated on the website, you could cut a 20 min review down to about 4 mins.
So here then, is a rather unusual review:
I think a review like this is a welcome breath of fresh air @Xonic83. It doesn’t feel like an advertisement and they react to the hearing aid with off the cuff, spontaneous remarks. It feels like an authentic review without a goal or motive. Just discovery. We get positives and negatives and they almost never use the marketing speak nomenclature of the various features.
Unfortunately, that means it probably won’t get very many views on Youtube! Its not slick enough
It would be wonderful to see reviews like this featuring various folks with different levels of hearing loss. Perhaps another small group of people with hearing loss that respond to various sounds in their environment together “Hey did you hear that awful Kenny G track in the background?!”.
I think I felt especially connected to this review as I recognised the descriptions of the sounds they were hearing from wearing Widex myself. Doesn’t sound like the sound profile has changed much not really sure why Pure mode seems to still be using omni directional (by the sounds of it) and not universsal which is a lot more comfortable to wear in a noisy situation. I guess they have thei rreasons though.
BTW, I love the amount of time people spend on talking about the shape of hearing aids. OH it’s curvy. oh it rounds at the back. It fits so snugly on the ear. It’s a beautiful concept,look, here’s the speaker wire and see how it lays so snuggly against my ear. OMG people, it’s a little box that sits on your ear, probably if you picked 2 HA’s up with your eyes closed you’d struggle for a moment to know which was which. Now if they said this one weighs a kilo, then I might take notice, probably buy a set of them
I don’t think someone with normal hearing can evaluate and review hearing aids when set to a mild settings … any more than I can do that with UP BTE aids for someone with profound hearing loss.
A younger person with normal hearing does not have the cognitive loss that I have after 50 years of hearing loss without the use of hearing aids .
Some reviews are based on “objective measurements” …the problem is, the ‘object’ being measured is, in real life, a moving target. WHICH of our hearing profiles is being measured? Mine is different than yours, etc.
in other words, what counts as being “an objective measurement”? Maybe a machine that records sounds on a template. but none of us hear that way. Our 'objective" isn’t so much to aspire after what a computer tells us is ‘proper hearing’. Our objective as hearing aid wearers is to find the most functional and rich sound experience while wearing our aid.
those on the Self Programing forum know this. there is no algorythm that will resolve my or your hearing issues, which anyway are changing from day to day.
other reviews are based on adjectives. these last come closer to describing the lived experience of wearing any given aid. But that experience is constrained by the parameters of the individual user’s hearing loss, sound preferences, etc. in other words, adjectives tell us something about how one individual experiences a hearing aid.
The “objective” camp wants information that will apply to everyone, just as math does to physics.
the “adjectival” camp tends to be more modest, and only reports as best they can how a given set of aids sounds to them.
In short…(too late!!!) there is no review of any set of aids that will predict how any individual will love or hate them.
Is there a better alternative to Verifit, @Neville? I want to find an audiologist in my region by contacting the REM manufacturer to ask which audiology practices purchased their products.
The verifit is “better” for the clinician because of how it refines our process and gives us effective tools. But from the patient perspective, any REM machine used correctly will give similar outcomes. So there’s no better machine for patients, just ANY REM is good. Europe is probably going to have more of a European brand. I’m not sure what. Interacoustics maybe.
What I need to know first of all is what type of HA is this you are telling me about. I can only wear BTE with a custom earmold. I have wasted a great deal of time listening to/viewing videos that are about something else. I cannot wear them, I do not need to know about them.
A quick google would tel you what kind of hearing aids the Widex allure’s are. I just did it myself, brings up the Widex site and then shows you they are RIC. By the way, Widex do offer custom ear molds I’ve used them myself and they are good.
Should I sell my soul to Satan now? or wait for the review credits to role?
I think I could just write the words OMGOMGOMGOMG!!! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayaaaaaaaaaaa! into a text field and get the same basic effect as that review
not really sure why Pure mode seems to still be using omni directional (by the sounds of it) and not universsal which is a lot more comfortable to wear in a noisy situation. I guess they have thei rreasons though.
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