Hi All,
I am a newbie to this forum and have found it really interesting and useful. I am suffering from sensorineural loss with the following audio gram,
I have been using delta 6000 since 2.5 years a go (chose it because it was the smallest at the time) and now due to some problems I am looking for an upgrade. The major problems that I have currently is, talking over the phone and mobile (can’t adjust the phone speaker near the aid and most of time prefer to take the aid out to talk with mobile), I struggle during the meetings, conferences and busy environments to talk with the people in long distance or behind me.
My audi says that they can’t give me the full gain because of the noise and they have to compromise. (recently switched from dome to mold to just stop bloody whistles)
I am currently thinking of a upgrade and spending some grands on a new aid. My Audi has recommended Oticon Dual and Agile and says that I can get significantly better sound and less hassles with them. I really appreciate if anyone has done such a upgrade (as user or expert) and share the results with me. Is there any other models and brands to consider? Are there many improvement on new models compared to delta 6000?
G’day Frank
If the phone is your biggest issue there are 2 options - either go blutooth (oticon, siemens, bernafon and Phonak all do this) with a BTE aid… or have you considered a custom aid? with the mic in your ear you don’t have to muck around as much. There are lots of options (including oticon which is what I’m guessing your audiologist is comfortable with) - so maybe you could ask if you could trial a pair:)
Me too, me too, not only am I a newbie, but also experiencing the same problems that Frank has had with the Delta 6000. Now about 3 years in for me and I’ve gone back to the Audio folk who look after the settings on my aids now so many times, it’s now ridiculous.
Only use the aids now for listening to TV of a night time, as business meetings, conferences, restaurant functions and using the phone has proved too difficult. I’ll look at the Agil Pro, but I didn’t expect the nearly 7k spend to have delivered such a poor result to the point of my needing to look elsewhere in such a short time.
Any and All advice is Very appreciated. Great forum btw and look forward to meeting you all.
I wore the Oticon Deltas 8000 for five years. I decided to upgrade mainly because I lost one but also because I had no volume control and had to take my aids out when talking on the phone. I now am wearing the Agil Pro Minis. They’re not as small as the Deltas, but I really like them. Much better speech discrimination, much easier to hear in a crowd and I can use them while talking on the phone. I got the streamer which I use as a remote to change programs and adjust the volume. I had feedback using the open fit domes, just as I had on the Deltas. So I switched to a tulip dome and no feedback to speak of.
Let us know what you think of the Agils if you get them.
Can’t comment on the Delta’s…never wore them but the Agil Pros
are simply (IMHO) thee best technology going if you can swing it
financially…they are expensive…but worth it to me…I have the Tcoil in
mine so using the phone now is simply heaven…most modern cell
phones have M4 compatibility with modern hearing aids with Tcoils;
Tcoils are also used in theater situations that have installed a closed circuit
loop that transmits directly to your tcoil in your aids; the Agils have an
automatic setting (which I use a lot) that puts the right aid into Tcoil
mode when I bring the phone close to my right ear…for theater mode I
toggle the program selector switch…this is helpful,say, when I’m outside on the
phone and it is windy…no outside noise at all comes into the aids while I’m
talking…in addition, I’ve found the Agils to be very good for music I listen to and
extremely well-performing in quiet settings…mornings before anyone is up,
for example, writing this…in my case no insurance help & no govt help in buying
them…simply giving up a lot of other retirement spending on other things to have
really good hearing for the first time in at least 25 years…