Sconato, odd observation … but your audiogram is like several I’ve seen for happy Oticon rechargeable wearers. What brand were you looking at?
Now me? I’ve got a snake-belly audiogram and opted for Phonak Lumity Life rechargeables 2 years ago. Way back then, I got a scant 12 hours per day of use. Yep, not even a full day’s worth! So I’d swap in my old Marvel 13-battery aids for TV viewing at night.
I talked hubs into letting me buy an IDENTICAL pair of Life rechargeables so I’d have the same aids with same settings & programs in case one pair fail. I have literaly zero margin for hearing without aids. Now I could switch from one pair of rechargeables to the other. Even better, after Samsung released OS 13, I was getting up to 17 hrs per day of use from a SINGLE pair of rechargeables.
Not to digress, but I then bought a pair of Roger mics so I never had to mothball either rechargeable. I could put in either pair and use either Roger mic. Still only got 17 hrs a day of use.
I felt constrained by the whole rechargeable clutter-puck tho. I now had 2 pairs of aids, their 2 charging bases, 2 Roger mics and their 2 bases. If I traveled, camped, or even took a long flight, I’d face two serious hurdles: 1.) would I find a place to plug my aids’ bases in? 2.) if both rechargeables lost their charge, how would I manage unless I brought along a third pair of battery-powered aids?
Well I recently decided to de-clutter. I bought a single pair of 312-battery Life aids. My backups will now be an older pair of 13-battery Marvels. I will NEVER travel with rechargeables, and I look forward to clearing the clutter off my nightstand. I will only need a single Roger mic and I get more than SIX days of use on tiny 312 battery aids.
I will likely sell my 2 rechargeables, their bases, and a Roger mic and its base.
You may get just about a FULL DAY’s use from new rechargeables, and there will likely be improvements. But I doubt rechargeables will last 6 days like my tiny batteries. You’ll need to travel with charging base and power cord. I’ll put a single pack of 8 batteries in my purse. You won’t be able to hike or camp for more than a few days - coasting on your rechargeables base and keeping fingers crossed it doesn’t die mid-trip.
Some motels, cities and countries simply do not have convenient options for plugging things in. You may end up putting your rechargeable base on the floor across the room and hope you don’t step on it or trip on the cord.
When things go sideways with rechargeables, you’ll have both the base and aids to trouble-shoot. I can eliminate one of those with a change of batteries. Plus your aids AND their base need firmware updates that you’ll never know about cuz even audis aren’t informed in a timely fashion.
I could drone on, but I DO appreciate the many folks who prefer rechargeable aids. I’m just in another camp with batteries and VERY glad Phonak finally released the Life aids in 312 version a couple months ago.