AmpCROS using the Phonak phone program

Hi there. Caught this question while Googling. It’s from 2 years ago, so not sure if it’s relevant anymore.

Yes, the V70 products are capable of being set up for AmpCROS. The audiologist needs to set up the binaural acoustic telephone setting in the hearing aid, and set the routing from the signal to go from bad ear to good ear – much like a regular CROS system would. The difference is that she still might benefit from some limited amplification on the bad side, if there is any residual hearing in that ear. The volume on that side should be reduced, however, to prevent the amount of amplification presented from distorting the signal sent up the auditory nerve to the brain.

Note there are some downsides to AmpCROS, most notably being battery drain. She will go through batterie twice as fast using AmpCROS. Also, certain automatic features in the aids will be turned off when using the AmpCROS setting, most notably directional noise reduction. She should have a manual setting set up to overcome this.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.