Day 1 going from OPN1 to Jabra Enhance Pro 20 Micro

Hearing Aids
#1

I picked up my Jabra’s today from Costco. I felt like the tuning session was the most through I’ve ever had. Measuring my ear canal, going through a voice program and watching him flip back and forth from two different programs to make adjustments until he was satisfied.

First impression was that everything was louder, and I told him that. He asked me to try not to turn down the volume and to let my brain get used to things until we meet next. He gave me 4 different programs to play with, All-Around- Hear in Noise-Outdoor-Music.

I can definitely hear speech better. While driving home with my wife and then stopping at a semi-loud restaurant with a speaker that seemed to pump music too loud (or maybe it’s just because I can hear better) I could still understand 98% of what my wife was saying. I only said “What?” one time! lol.

I could hear squeaks in my car I didn’t hear before, I heard my shoes when walking on our tile floors (I thought I was a really soft walker), went outside and heard birds chirping, heard the pool waterfall and water fountain outside my office and realized I’d never noticed them before while in my office.

My wife is REALLY Loud, I don’t know if that’s just because I’m still getting used to these or if she’s just adapted to talking to me louder over the years :smile:

I stream a lot of audio books (Audible.com) and tried the streaming thinking the sound would be so much better. I was surprised it sounded, slightly distorted? The BT will go much further. I would sometimes lose signal in one ear with the OPN’s when putting my phone in my pocket. These don’t lose connection until I’m pretty far away. But I don’t think they sound as clear while streaming from audible. I will have to play around more to be sure.

I do have a headache, might be related to fasting the day before or me getting used to these new HA’s. Anyways, so far I notice a definite improvement with speech recognition and I’m pretty happy about it!

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#2

Congratulations :tada::confetti_ball::gift::balloon::champagne:

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#4

My right ear can hear better, when I listen to someone talking on the radio in the car and pull my right HA out I can hear the difference.

I am having a big problem with the right dome plugging me up, no air. Going to have to switch to something else so I can stop messing with it, bugging the heck out of me.

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#5

Yeah looking at your audogram you should be using a custom mold, fitted with the correct vent size and you’ll have the best of both worlds, the plugged up feeling is known as the occlusion effect, some get used to it and for others like yourself it’s intolerable.

#6

I’ve always wondered, who are the folks that “get used to it”? Severe cases? It’s hard to imagine for me

Also, the plugged up feeling for me, spells troubles down the road. As I got the worst infections due to lack of ventilation.

#7

I was used to the occlusion effect of wearing Jabra. ear buds for streaming and for conversations with their slightly amplified, to my ear test, ‘hearthrough’ mode.

My power domes I do not feel in my ear, since I started putting on a drop of ProEar to lubricant the dry domes.

Still I am interested in peoples responses to various ear molds.

In some ways I prefer the occlusion effect as it improves my streaming so much… I can ‘hear through’ fine with my hearing aids.

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#8

I can’t handle it. For me it’s the pressure build up. Sometimes it’s fine, then it completely seals up and feels like there’s water in my ear and pressure so I can’t hear as well and I constantly have to break the seal with my finger or pull the dome out under suction to break it. When it seals up it instantly builds pressure, can’t hear much and even walking sounds like my head is bouncing around. Tried punching a hole in the dome but I can’t seem to vent it to get rid of the pressure build up. Put a tulip dome on, fixed the occlusion but I get feedback if something comes close to my ear now.

Guessing a custom dome will fix things. I have an appointment to get it done.

#9

Yeah it’s usually the severe profound cases that “have to get used” to it, as @RSW mentioned most of us can tolerate ear buds for a while, there’s also a lot of ear plug use in most engineering workshops, so even some people with normal hearing can get by, I’m also one that cannot.

Yes this should fix your issues, getting the correct vent size is the important thing here.

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#11

I can also say without a doubt, the Jabra’s are VERY disappointing with audio streaming. No matter how I adjust them through the app, they’re terrible for phone calls, audio books and music. My 8 year old Oticon OPN’s smoke them in this area. They sound like the cheapest set of airline earbuds you can imagine and I just can’t understand why they’re so bad. Very "tinny and they sound like small cheap speakers compared to my old OPN’s.
Listening to an audio book from my car speakers sounds fine, but streaming from phone to HA’s is crap.

At times in regular hearing situations, it sounds like there’s some distortion, like the receiver can’t handle the power. I wonder if I need the larger receivers, or at least for my right ear where the distortion happens most.

I’m going in to get an ear mold, would I need to ask to try the larger receiver prior to the ear mold fitting?

#12

What level has your HCP set Streaming Bass Boost to in the streaming function? They are mild by default. This made a noticable improvement for me.

#13

Wanted to follow up and say that after some adjustments, the Jabra’s now sound almost as good with streaming as my 7 yr old OPN’s. I’ve also been cutting one slit in the right ear power dome to relieve the occlusion/pressure and it’s been working well. I may still get a custom mold, they’re cheap at Costco.

Overall I’m pretty happy with the Jabra’s. There are some things that bug me…the app gets disconnected often and it’s difficult to re-connect the phone/app to the HA’s without a restart of the phone or the HA’s. My old units would rarely disconnect, but all I had to do was turn BT off and back on to re-connect them.

Jabra’s don’t handle hair in the mic well, at least I think that’s what it is. Never had the issue with my old HA’s but almost daily a hair starts scraping around on a mic and I have to move things around to get it out and stop the noise.

I can hear them adjust for noise at times, for example using a yard blower, it will soften the loud noise. Other times they do adjustments I can hear and I wonder why. I’m still getting used to the on the fly adjustments they make.

I do like all the adjustments you can make in the app (when it’s connected). When I switch to “Hear in noise” I can make more adjustments within this program for speach clarification, reduce noise, etc. All of these adjustments really do make a difference in being able to understand people.

I would say with the old OPN’s while in a noisy resturant, I could probably get maybe 60% of what people were saying at our table. I think I’m probably at 85-90% now with the Jabra’s. Not perfect but a good improvement for $1,600.

I would like to try and new Oticon’s one day, but for now I’m enjoying the better hearing with the Jabra’s.

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#14

It sounds like you have an Android. If so:
Search for “never auto sleeping apps” in settings. Add the EnhancePro app there. I had a lot of problems with my app disconnecting until I did this.

The EnhancePro app runs in the background even if you kill the app. The system would sleep the app and I would get disconnects.

There is a place where you can see the app running in the background. Press the bottom left key of your phone screen. Then in the upper left there should be a couple words about background apps. Press that and you will see the apps that are running in the background. From there you can actually stop the app and it will stop running. I had to do that at first before I found out about “never auto sleeping apps”. It would save a reboot by stopping it.

I hope this helps.

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#15

I have an iPhone:( but I’m going to look and see if there’s something similar in settings👍

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#16

Under the More section of the app, try turning optimize for Mifi to off. Seems counterintuitive but if I have that turned on I constantly lose connection, with it off the connection is rock solid

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#17

I have similar unequal loss and just picked up some Jabra’s yesterday from Costco. I also had them make a skeleton mold for my right ear. I have the Resound One and the sound is really similar but better all around, especially in a restaurant setting. I agree with OP that im now catching about 85-90% comprehension in a nosey setting. I went to 2 pretty loud place with lots of background noise and voices and could actually carry on a conversation without asking to repeat.
I also have the same issue with hair rubbing on the mics. I had the same problem with the One’s and found that if i adjusted SmartFit to remove the hair sound, comprehension went down with many words and sounds.
I use a power receiver in my bad ear, at OP’s loss on bad ear, i would think one would be beneficial along with a custom mold.
I have zero feedback with my One’s even when cupping my hand over my ears. With the Pro 20’s i have slight feedback on right aid when placing hand next to my ear. I have a Noahlink and SmartFit but im gonna let Costco do their thing for a few adjustments until I start tinkering around. I have my setting from the One’s saved and eventually might transfer them over and see how it sounds since it took alot of tinkering to get them where i was really happy with them.
But giving Costco a chance to impress me.
Next adjustment ask to max out bass in the streaming program.

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#18

Odd, not sure what the default setting is, but when I checked mine was turned off. I turned it ON to see if it makes a difference. I have an iphone 12, might be getting a bit old but everything else works for me and I haven’t seen a reason to upgrade (yet). Thanks for that info!

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#19

I just got my Jabra Enhance Pro 20’s two days ago. I have a Samsung S22 Ultra. I am going to try the Never auto sleep like u suggested. I really hope it helps with all that I have been experiencing in the last two days.

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#20

I looked in SmartFit while being fit and the default does look like it was OFF. I asked the HIS to max it out

#21

I am having the same issue. The sound is constantly changing and it happens in one hearing aid at a time. I work out of my car and this happens mostly in my car. It’s so irritating. I have the resound ones and they don’t do that. I like the aids otherwise but I cannot put up with this shifting sounds. Have you found any way to reduce this ? Tnx

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