It appears that hear advisor put Vivia through their process and it does not screen very well. I wonder if they activated the AI functionality? Just thought I’d share
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In a sea of marketing language thats full of delusions of grandeur, it’s refreshing to see third-party, unbiased testing. I admire the work that Hear Advisor is doing.
That said, I remain somewhat skeptical about using loudspeakers with recorded speech as a proxy for real-world conversations in noise. As a scientist myself, though, I recognize that real-world environments could introduce too many confounding variables into the tests.
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Strange, regarding the very positive comments about Resound Vivia under Matthew Allsop’s video (and other channels).
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I do not think they used the Edge+ mode when evaluating speech in noise for the Starkey Edge HA’s so it’s very possible they didn’t use the enhanced mode for the Resound Vivia’s either.
I mean I don’t think I’ve ever seen negative comments on a hearing aid from almost any big time reviewer. Every slightly negative comment is always hidden in layers of fluff 
OTCs get the crap kicked out of them but all the new big names it’s pritty much fantastic amazing bla bla bla. Serously if you were to take starkey, Phonak, Resound and read about them on paper, you’d be really hard pressed as to know the differences between them. Oticon and Widex are a little bit different, Widex especially, but the other lot are all run by Terminator AI and wil reduce the sound of a passing croud of 5000 people so you can hear a whisper from someone 40 miles away… or something
To be clear, I don’t really know what the alternative is, I’m just saying marketing has gone a bit mad
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To be clear, what I’m saying is, when everything is positive, it all becomes a bit meaningless. as a society we do not enjoy giving people feedback which is not positive, whether it be constructive, negative etc etc. The problem with that mindset is that it doesn’t allow for growth. The hearing aid reviewers are often the people selling the products. The makers need them, and they need the makers. So you have this eternal loop of positivity from which no one really benefits. Ultimately you go to an audiologist and if you’re luck, the audi has enough experience with a particular brand, or several brands that they’ll do a good job fitting you. we talk about “step backwards” on this forum a lot, we’re just talking about things like battery life when the truth is, the job of these things is to get you to hear better and since that is subjective and driven by so many variables, then bring the marketing into that, it’s no wonder everyone is so confused
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They tested the hearing aid under a set of test conditions that may not be a good test of the hearing aid.
So their testing may be better then nothing, trying the hearing aids in one’s own ears is the best test.
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I couldn’t agree more with @Xonic83 regarding vendor marketing and the fact that one should treat any review with caution. The reviewers might be independent, but they need to stay in the manufacturers’ good graces to get continued priority access.
I don’t know whether Vivias are good or bad, but I noticed that ReSound’s marketing proclaimed that “[their new AI chip] can perform 4.9 trillion operations per day”.
Nobody measures computing performance in ‘operations per day’. Is that intentional obfuscation?
That’s like a car company saying their new car is so efficient that I can do 2000 miles per barrel. WTF?
However, I think it’s also true that hearing aid performance is extremely hard to measure and depends on a lot of factors.
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