Hi! Im new to this forum. I have a lot of experience fitting hearing aids

Hearing Aids
#104

Hi Mike,

I have been using hearing aids for 6 years. I don’t wear them all the time. Mostly to watch tv and in restaurants crowds etc. I have had balky Resound aids for many years. They worked pretty well to screen out unwanted noise.

In January of 2010 I got a new set of aids. Uticon EpoQs. They are interesting Hi Tech gadgets Pretty good at reproducing natural sounding voices but very bad ad screening out unwanted sounds in loud conditions. For example I can usually listen in to the conversatins around me at other tables quite well while not being able to hear and understand the people sitting around me in my own group at my table. Same thing in the car. Cant hear others nearly as well as I could with the old Resound aids. What are your thoughts? Is this a product problem common complaint? Or, is it is something an ontologist could correct?

Thanks for your help

Joel.

#105

Hi Mike J.,

I am new to this site. My wife has some hearing problem and Adiologist has recommended that she should use a hearing aid. I would like to know what kind and brand of hearing aid will be suitable for her. Her audiogram is as follows.

Fred

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#106

Hi Mike,

I’m looking for some advice. I need new aids and won’t be going back to my old audi for a variety of reasons one of which is that her group doesn’t offer any financing options and will charge 10% of the hearing aid cost if you don’t decide to buy from them. So I’m looking for a new audi and feel as if I’m going in blind.

I’ve been wearing the Oticon Deltas for the past five years. I recently lost one :frowning: and rather than simply replace it, it seemed wiser to look for something with newer technology. I have nothing to compare the Deltas to. However, I have had trouble distinguishing speech and have found music to have a tinny sound. I’d like some idea of what might be an appropriate aid for me, just so I have a guideline going into a new situation.

I’m a retired teacher who does home instruction for students who often mumble or look away when they speak. My audiogram hasn’t changed much in the past five years though I feel as if I don’t hear as well. (Hearing aids hadn’t been adjusted in about three years)

Thanks in advance for any help.

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#107

I’m not certain MikeJ is around anymore…I just wanted to give you all the ‘heads up!’

#108

Hey,

I am getting Phonak solana cic monday. My audiologist said I have very small ear canals and if they don’t fit how she likes she will order microtech axio st. My hearing is not the worst but it is worse on every point from 2 years ago. take a look. Input is welcome.

#109

Joel,

The problem you describe is due to a compression issue.

The audiologist can make distant/soft sounds less noticeable and closer/louder sounds more noticeable by adj the compression kneepoint/ratio.

By the way,

This is Allen, a so california audio;ogist

#110

This is Allen, a SoCal audiologist.

Alwood,

From your audiogram, your hearing loss is VERY slight. If it were me I would not prescribe hearing aids,not enough benefit to justify the cost/hassle of hearing aids.

Having said thathowever,if you are noticing a signifigant problem hearing people, then you might want to try aid sand see what they can do for you.

My guess is that you won’t find them all that helpful

#111

You might want to look into aids that have a connectivity system.

Oticon has the Agil, Acto and Ino aids that all do.

Phonak has the naida, Exelia

And I think Widex is going to be introducing their Clear line.

These all have pretty cool technology.

#112

Any good open ear bte with good noise suppresion and feedback management will work well with her.

If she uses the phone a lot you might want to look at aids with blue tooth setups,Oticon is great for this

#113

I’m curious Marina,

Why would you expect the audiologist to not charge for her time/expertise???

Do you work for no compensation??

#114

My aids have been helpful. I am on day 5. It is helping me in the classroom. For a lot of normal conversation they don’t change anything. But my daughter, students, and husband they have made a difference. They are low and soft. I am glad I got them. Plus I don’t think my loss is done and these will change with me.

#115

Hi Mike,

I am new to this forum, so any help or advice from anyone is greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

I have Moderate to severe hearing loss. I had a bad experience with my last hearing aids which were Sonic Balance in the ear model. I had a lot of trouble understanding speech as well as hearing the soft sounds. I disliked these aids with a passion!

I am due for new HA again:eek: as my work involves lots of meetings and conferences and making presentations. I have seen 2 different audi’s one has suggested the Bernafon Veras, the other has suggested the Oticon Agil. Which would you recommend? I would greatly appreciate your help and advice here.

My hearing has gone down since last year :(, so I am waiting for my latest report to arrive and will post my details next week.

#116

honestly before I made a decision like that, I would also see a hearing service specialist. They are usually less expensive in my opinion unless they work for a hearing aid manufacturer or dealer. But id still consider all options.

#117

Hi Mike,
I have a Hearing Aid programming question. I am trying to come up with a way that make one of the programs of the digital hearing aid sound like devices like Audio headphones, “Tv Ear” or “FM system” or even iphone headset. Although most of these days Hearing aids like Starkey, Siemens, Oticon, Widex, etc… have option of TV and audio program but they the quality of their sounds are not same as these devices.

I see all these devices just amplifying the sounds. My guess is the difference between most of digital hearing aids and these devices are the features like compression, noise reduction, increasing sound per channel for each frequencies. I am thinking if I undo all these features on a digital hearing aid and just increase the volume through all frequencies, would I be make the quality of sound like those devices?

#118

Hi Mike,

I currently am using widex clear 440’s with open domes and like them. I have an old widex CIC for my right ear as a backup if I have a breakdown, and I am thinking of getting a backup for my left ear as I need to use my aids to work. I don’t want to spend a fortune for another widex aid as a backup that will be used only for emergencies. Given my audiogram and the fact that I work in a noisy environment and need to clearly hear people talking, will one of the self programming aids from Hearsource or America Hears be adequate or will the quality be so far below the clears that it will be a waste of money and really not usable, or do you have another alternative?( by the way I tried Phonak smart 9’s and agil pros and really could not use either of those very successfully in my work environment and during my trials had to eventually use my old widex in one ear to really hear well enough, although the pros were not too bad) Thanks

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#119

I doubt Mike will be answering your questions, he has not logged into the board for almost a year.

#120

Hi Ho Mike J: I have just recently begun my search for hearing aid performance and am somewhat impressed by the Bernafon Chronos 9 fast AGC. This is different from other devices I have looked at, but I don’t know if the differentiation of phonemes associated with high frequency loss is actually better than the standard channelized frequency equalization schemes. Do you know anything about the actual algorithm that is used? If AGC were fast enough to amplify the fricatives such as k, t, f, s, th etc. associated with high frequency loss it seems that clarity and word understanding could be improved without UCL or LDL onset.

Is the Bernafon approach really a better way to go?

#121

I have speech recognition problems. In which frequencies does most human speech fall? Female and children’s voices are especially difficult.

#122

Hi
cfOULD YOU PLEASE GUIDE ME- WHICH ONE ISW BETTER UNITRON LATTITUTE MOXI 8 CHANNEL OR WIDAX FLASH?
TRHGX

#123

You have to try them out to see which one helps you hear better. One can’t tell that with specifications on a sheet of paper.

Your question is like asking, “Does the coffee taste better in the red cup or the white cup?”

Please do not use all CAPITAL LETTERS when you type, it makes you appear like you are SCREAMING and considered quite rude.