More "hi-fi feeling"

[user920]

@user715

Is there a brand that offers a more hi-fi feeling?
For streaming, no. (Other than models’ distortion specifications.) Despite that HAs can produce better clarity, the streaming 16KHz resampling rate is a hard limit. For live performance/in-air playback/over-the-ear headphones, yes. The standard in-HA digital to analog conversion sampling rate is, understandably, 20-24KHz for speech. There are better specs for sampling resolution and processing lag varies between brands/models

The Widex Moment models use a 32KHz sampling rate and that does make a noticeable difference for listening in-air and over-the-ear headphones. However, unlike your Phonak’s using BluetoothClassic, Moments use BluetoothLE (not the same as LE Audio capability) which is more limiting for connecting to phones, TV, receivers, etc.

I hope all that helps clarify what your experiencing. It’s probably not what you wanted to hear.

Wow, that was an absolutely fantastic clarification and so central to what I was trying to describe.
This is exactly what I experience and what I mean when I wrote that the sound sounds broken, no wonder I was frustrated with the soundstage.
I know that the music services, such as Spotify, do not deliver linear sound and that bluetooth has limitations, but that the hearing aid itself also compresses the sample rate so hard… I didn’t know that and that explains everything.
The thing is that I may be a bit sensitive to bad sound and, for example, can’t cope with using bluetooth headphones in Teams, of course the cord is a pain, but I’d rather have a cord than it sounds bad.

Nah, you’re right and that’s not what I wanted to hear and I’m wondering what makes the hearing aid companies use such a low sample rate, is it technical limitations?