Are there any NHS hearing aids where you can save the audio settings when listening to streamed music/TV etc?
With the hearing aids I have whenever I play music or watch videos I have to open up the myPhonak app, wait for it to connect to my hearing aids, then alter the slider all the way to the right so I get balanced audio in both ears, and then sometimes adjust the volume too, depending on what I am listening to.
Is there any way to permanently change this? It is annoying. I literally always want the slider to the right.
I have NHS Phonak hearing aids. The audiologist added a music program. On this, I can change the settings and save them as a new program, eg Music 1. The settings remain the same unless I update them.
No, sorry. I didn’t notice that you were referring to streaming. Your NHS audiologist could adjust the streaming settings on Target, I think but I’ll check that and report back after my next appointment in a few weeks time. But someone else on here could probably answer.
Thank you. I am trying to find the specific instructions for altering ambient balance in the Bluetooth streaming setting, but so far I haven’t been able to find this one. I think it would be safer to have instructions I can email them!
this is the link to audiologyonline with instructions for:
How Do I Apply My Patient’s myPhonak App Adjustments to Their Hearing Aid Settings in Phonak Target?
I think you are confusing the app with Target , that’s the software that the audiologist uses to adjust your aids. For NHS it is locked so you need to stay with them unless you adopt Diy.
Show them the article @firenzel has quoted.
No, I wanted to have instructions which show my NHS audiologist how to make the setting permanent for me. I am not trying to make it permanent myself, I know I can’t. But my hospital is crap to put it bluntly and they will need step by step instructions. They have previously told me the setting cannot be made permanent.
for altering the Ambient Balance is no specific handle in the Target software.
i assume you want both
an reduction of ambient (surrounding) noises picked up by the microphones
increased volume of the bluetooth streaming sound
→ the the NHS audiologist can change the following in the fitting software
In the bluetooth streaming programms the microphone input could reduced
If you want to have an attenuated (toned down) ambient input from the hearing aid microphones during streaming, then the NHS audiologist should reduce the microphone input in the bluetooth streaming programms.
increase overall volume of the bluetooth streaming programms
During streaming via Bluetooth (via phone, or other Bluetooth devices) you can alter the volume on the source device. So you could increase the loudnes/volume on the phone, Tablet, PC etc. to amplify the streaming volume.
Ideally I would like almost no mic input – I listen to audio at home – it’s the sense of one ear having more ambient sound/not so much music which is utterly maddening.
The NHS aids are “Not” always locked @michael1, I have a set of Naida Marvel 70 SP’s, given to me when they were less than a year on the market, REM was done, so I imported those settings, into a set of Naida Paradise 90 UP’s, via Target software, I still have those very same settings in the Naida Paradise aids… Like most folks, I thought they would be locked, they weren’t… Cheers Kev
