Thank you all for taking the time to respond. It seems I wasn’t clear in my question.
I have a Resound Mini-Mic for my Resound Forte. It is excellent for talking in the car with my wife, or talking across a “quiet” table in a restaurant with one person. Placing the mic horizontal on the table yields little sound. If you add three other people to the restaurant conversation, it is useless! You absolutely cannot hear the people across the table. You cannot add additional mics for each of the other people – the system will not allow it. Resound uses streaming.
I also have a Phonak Pen system: pen, MyLink, and 3 mics. Uses telecoil. You can place the Roger’s pen horizontal on the table, omni-directional, and the sound response is minimal. I have boosted the sound on the MyLink, have my Resound HA on max, but the volume response on the mics, is also minimal – half the sound of the Resound mic. If it’s noisy, the mics are also useless.
So, the problem is basically 4 people conversing in a noisy restaurant equals: “I can’t hear anybody!” And I have to shake my head like an idiot faking understanding.
Is there anything out there that will work?