I have recently moved from Oticon Opn 1’s to Phonak Paradise P90-RT.
I was hoping that they would also help hearing over my home phone (Panasonic KX-TG153CSK) but not so. It’s still no better than two cans attached to a string. Using the speaker phone is better, but not great.
I’ve heard that the Clarity phones are good but to stay away from the XLC8. Can’t find decent reviews of the Clarity phone lines. Have written to the manufacturer but they have ignored me.
Just don’t know.
I need to share with my wife and so for the two of us, we need: answering machine / speaker phone / memory buttons / the ability to support extra handsets / call block and above all clarity of the caller’s voice.
Does such a device exist?
I recently upgraded to KS9’s which are the precurser to the paradise. I now have my home phone also ring my cellphone and answer on my cellphone whenever possible. I have unlimited minutes and the voice quality coming through my KS9s bluetooth connection to my cellphone is excellent. I am able to “co-ring” both my land line and cellphone with all incoming landline calls because I use Vonage VOIP for my landline service (currently). Because of the cost though, I am thinking about transitioning my land lines to google voice and having all landline number calls ring on my cellphone through google voice. In any case, you may be able to work something similar out to get your landline calls through your cellphone direct to your hearing aids. Highly recommended!!
Yes and thank you. I get excellent voice comprehension through my cell phone and through Bluetooth to my HA’s. But, most but not all calls are shared with my wife over speaker phone. I’m beginning to think this isn’t fixable. Want to have a sharable home home and still be able to understand. My crummy Panasonic phone has BT that will connect to my HA’s. But if I use it, then my wife can’t join the conversation when she needs to. No good solution.
If both you and your wife have cell phones the easiest solution might be to do a conference call when you both want to be on the same call.
Jim
Thanks Jim, but my wife won’t use a cell phone.
I use roger select as a mic when my hubby and I are talking with someone, video call goes to loudspeaker and I put select hanging off the phone (I have a stand for phone), and I get it directly in my ears whilst he’s listening regularly.
I’m using select because I have it (mode is 'around the neck, so, catching from sound upwards from it).
Partner mic should work good for that as well, since that’s the only mode it has anyway (and is a lot of cheaper, especially if you catch used one on ebay).
And you don’t need special phone 
Maybe you can build own contraption from some mic, some mixer or something and tv connector… But no clue which mic or mixer you’d need for that.
Thanks Blacky. But I think it’s the speaker in the phone that is the problem. Well that and my comprehension of what is being said. Beaming a crummy transmission directly to my ear won’t help. The phone sound is loud enough, I just can’t understand anything being spoken. My word comprehension on the hearing tests is around 90%. But not on the Panasonic phone. Also, I’ve just read a bunch of very bad reviews of the Clarity phones so they might not be the answer either.
Yeah, it could be that it’s about phone lines cutting out some frequencies. I doubt that in that case any landline phone will work?
I don’t know what’s about mobile phones, it seems like they transfer sound normally. Yeah, granted, I use mic with mobile phone, I didn’t use landline phone (nor have one) for like a decade or so.
But still, if I put my phone to my aids (classical usage or loudspeaker) vs if I use mic to stream, mic sound quality is better in terms of comprehension. At least, that’s how I feel it is. So my guess is that mic’s mics are better than aid’s mics for extracting the most out of such type of sound. Or it’s all in my head 
Anyhow, I do know that aids only with loudspeaker isn’t easy for me, whilst using select makes listening much easier, and of course, direct streaming is still the best.
Now I’m wondering if it’s actually the phone or the fact the we switched the home phone to VOIP. I don’t think that would make a difference but I’m not a hundred percent sure.