That is a dream that I hope comes true
@AbramBaileyAuD , the way I see it, the potential benefits I listed don’t even require a hearing aid protocol. Those benefits are for the general population with their hearables. Low energy creates a level playing field for our hearing aids which then become our ‘hearables’. With our special needs we benefit most.
What benefits an actual hearing aid standard will bring to the table I really don’t know.
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Told ya it was coming 
I told you first. 
Haha, love it. What can I say I had a busy December.
How does it impact the price of hearing aids? Will they become more expensive?
Who knows? The cost of accessories might come down. A TV streamer for my current aids costs about 300AUD. A generic streamer from ebay might cost 40AUD. A future generic streamer with Bluetooth LE would probably be about the same. No need for a proprietary solution any more so that’s 260AUD in my pocket. If my future TV has BLE built in that’s 300AUD in my pocket. It may be a similar story for remote microphones. The connect clips that I keep losing are about 240AUD. If the future hearing aids with BLE audio include a microphone that’s another 240AUD in my pocket. It adds up.
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Sounds like we should be very patient. They’re predicting for it to be on product within the next 2 years. Such predictions are usually optimistic. Still exciting though.
Do let us know if you hear anything more.
Yesterday, I was watching a series on Netflix that was in Norwegian with English subtitles. All was fine until they started talking in English, which had no subtitles. I dug out my Marvels, put in new batteries, hooked up the TV Connector, and could understand the English a bit better. Today, I started watching a movie in English, with subtitles, but wanted to hear it better. I got a pair of Bluetooth earbuds recently and wanted to try them. I have a regular Bluetooth TV streamer and with the earbuds, it worked well except for latency. Since I was the only one home, I turned down the TV volume and it was OK except for the voices not matching the mouth movements. If I had a setup that didn’t have latency, it would make things better for me. I don’t really like using the Marvels as earbuds. Their sound quality doesn’t cut it.
I am loving the TV streamer after years of closed captions.
By not looking at the closed captions it is helping me to hear speech and learn.
I saw where Monster has some sort of bluetooth broadcasting system that lets multiple people stream bluetooth.
Ok
From https://www.embedded-computing.com/home-page/5e1361a12c6e1
Version 5.2 of the Bluetooth Core specification introduces support for isochronous channels over Bluetooth Low Energy between the source (e.g. your phone) and the receivers (e.g. earbuds). Left and right audio channels are transmitted and picked up simultaneously: Quality at the earbuds is as good as it is at the source. Furthermore, an additional channel can be supported for voice control, coming back from earbud-microphone pickup. You can have simultaneous TWS and voice. While answering a call, your music can still play in the background, at reduced volume.
and
Multi-source is supported, which means that you can connect to audio sources from a number of music playing mechanisms, switch from one source to another instantaneously, and allow any one of these to dominate while others are turned down but not silenced.
Edit: Thinking about this, you would have like a mixing desk on your phone. You might have microphones on 2 or 3 friends at a gathering. Make one in your left ear, one in your right, one straight ahead. Mix their relative volumes so you can still hear the outside world. Not sure the world needs more people playing with their phones at parties though.
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This was thing I was talking about from Monster: Monster Introduces New MultiLink Bluetooth Technology at CES 2020
Sounds completely unrelated to Bluetooth 5.2 Sounds like it does some of the same thing though.
Ancroid Central:
Official press release:
https://www.bluetooth.com/press/bluetooth-sig-unveils-le-audio-the-next-generation-of-bluetooth-audio/
Bluetooth SIG: Low Energy Audio
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It does. It’s probably dead in the water at this point.
I almost beat you to posting a link to your own article. fig jam. Maybe I should go and get a life. Nice article.
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