The Airpod Pro was what I thought of straight away. No hearing aid is going to match it for noise cancellation- or sound quality I expect. And if it’s set up with their audiogram, they should be able to get by if they need to converse with someone on their walk.
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I’m not sure if this is helpful, but I’ll chime in anyway, since I was wearing an earlier version of the same brand. With my Signia Pure hearing aids, which required the EasyTek to stream, it was wonderful at automatically adjusting the volume when there was noise while streaming podcasts. So if I was walking down a busy street, as a car passed the volume of streamed sound would increase. There was no need to do some of the things people are suggesting, like turning down or off the mics. I think environmental awareness is important while out on the street, and I wouldn’t want to be without the ability to hear what was going on around me.
I have Stylettos 7 AX, which I self program and initially they sounded horribly when streaming.
As already mentioned, you need domes/sleeves more on the closed side.
Secondly, there is an option, which is on by deafault, to auto-adjust streaming volume (and it’s terrible), and right beside it a one which allows you to set how much of the outside (meaning mics) you want to have mixed in (70% by default). On top of that you can have a profile set up to reduce noise from the outside.
You won’t get crazy bass with HAs but I’m shocked how much clarity, sound separation and locality I’m getting.
I’ve got a new phone which has BT 5 and android 13, and tested streaming with it. At 80% volume and with Noisy Environment profile lowered a bit, it easily drowns any background noise, windy weather and busy road, on the train, etc.
Thanks to all who have offered advise and opinions.
It has become obvious to me that my audiologist did not do any fitting beyond the bare minimum “first fit” configuration. In particular, she did not enable Adaptive Streaming, which would likely have gone a long way towards making my HAs functional for streaming on the street.
I will take this up with her in my first followup appointment in 2 weeks.
Adaptive Streaming is ON by default, you want it off most likely, otherwise, from my experience it will set loudness below what you want.
And yes, most of the audios do bare minimum, I had my audiogram done in 5db increments. After I redid it myself in 1db increments [which takes more time obviously] the HAs sound so much better.
I have phonak lumity 70, while streaming background noise is too high and I’m unable to adjust to Reduce background noise could you please help me with this issue
This can be adjusted in Phonak target software, it’s called microphone attenuation, I don’t use Phonak but do you use the App.
yes I use phonak, mobile app…but I don’t see any microphone attenuation in mobile app
It’s called ambient balance.Adjustment using a slider for stream/surround.
I wouldnt stream on the street. You need to be aware. In any other loud environment, mute the hearing aid mics.
@Gsk
While streaming, you normally also can use the HAs buttons to adjust the balance between environment and streaming source. UP: streaming source louder than environment. DOWN: vice versa.
This is the setting by default. Your audi might have disablef this, if it does not work.
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Right, Phonaks handle this very well (either using the HA buttons or the app). In the default setting I can both listen to a TV streamer or, when outside, to podcasts (over Bluetooth) and still converse with people around me when needed. Since the HAs are programmed not to amplify loud noise (like traffic) I rarely need to override this balance.