This is my first set of non-Kirkland hearing aids, and the MARIE has been a revelation for me. I’ve had several receivers that developed mike failures, but when they’re replaced its almost a “Hallelujah–I can hear!” experience for me. BUT . . .
. . . none of the other hearing profiles do ANYTHING for me. It’s almost like when they’re on it’s like wearing ear plugs. I know the aids are working because touching the external mikes causes the usual scratchy racket. So this means I ALWAYS use the all-around setting.
. . . When in a noisy environment–especially when I speed up on the freeway and the wind and tire noise increases–the hearing aid automation (in all-around) kicks in and turns down the gain so that I literally can’t hear what the passenger is saying. If I stop the car, then after 30 seconds of low-noise the amplification level returns to normal. I can “force” the gain to renormalize by using the app to switch away from all-around and immediately switch back. In a noisy environment it takes 10-15 seconds for the automation to jump in and turn the gain back down again.
Is this normal and by design? Or is something off that my audiologist can fix? Or are they just defective?