If fitter didn’t adjust the aids properly, so thinking about which level of noise cancellation you need for each environment, or do you want to hear soft noises in quiet, or what you want to hear when streaming
I’m talking about features that modify hearing experience, not basic gain, but also, basic gain per program can be set up - afaik only with phonak/unitron, everyone else just build on top of one gain graph.
We were talking in forum about how that’s called, I think it’s something like ‘single base’ vs ‘multiple bases’ for programs. So basically, for phonak, each program can be totally differently set up, like you could have one where you have no bass, another where you don’t have any treble, third where you have no mids (ok, depending on your audiogram and curves, but general idea) - such stuff can’t be done by features, it’s about gain per frequency.
Just a tip, in case you have insanely different environment which could need different gains per frequencies, and not just adjusting features like - noise reduction, protection from sudden noises, hearing soft noises (like fan), changing directionality of microphones and so on.
One more thing. New aids are connected with BT to programming device that is called Noahlink wireless. I didn’t bother my fitter with so many things, I’ve adjusted bunch of those features on my own, sitting in my room with my noises and removing those I don’t want to hear.
It would take a bunch of notes and visits to get it to that point. Like I guess he’d do it in steps, I did it also, but it took me 30 seconds to realise I need it maxed out. One example.
Also, test how I handle noise is easy, I just open my kitchen window while I stand up from my computer. I can test, and sit back and readjust.
Since you’re digging so deeply, maybe you want to look into that
I definitely don’t have problems with hearing autosense switching to wrong programs all the time.
Yes, I do hear when it switches from quiet to noise when I wash dishes because everything is quieter. If that’d bother me, I’d remove noise cancelling for autosense noise program and create manual program for noise when I really want high noise cancelling eg when I’m outside.
I also hear when it switches between streaming and non streaming since I don’t have same options enabled, but a lot of that can be resolved if you either take detailed notes and your fitter knows what they’re doing, or you just do it yourself. I was lazy to make notes so I’ve learned how programming sw works.
I’d also highly recommend getting sw for all aids you might be interested in, without programming device, and just check what’s available and how it works. Since there’s not much data available especially how things work, and some of us learn faster when they see what’s really happening when you move this or that, even without hearing the change applied to HAs, you’ll still learn a ton about different possibilities with different aids and/or manufacturers.