Ah OK, EduMic vs ConnectClip. There are quite a few differences, even both of them support the remote mic feature.
- ConnectClip:
1.a The only streaming sources you can get from the ConnectClip is either via the Remote Mic or the content from a device that connects to the ConnectClip via standard BT like a laptop or Android phone, or actually any device that can be used as a streaming source and sends audio via BT, including the iPhone/iPad even if you can already use MFI to connect directly without the ConnectClip.
1.b You don’t have to change to any special program to use the BT streaming from the ConnectClip, you’d just start hearing it stream when there’s content. You would have to put the aids into the Remote Mic program (which gets created when you pair your aids with the ConnectClip). This program is the one that preceeds program 1 or after the last program in the chain. If you do have a TV Adapter program, this Remote Mic program will follow the TV Adapter program, but still preceeds the P1.
1.c You can also use the BT connection to your Android (or even iOS via BT iPhone if not via MFI) as a mic/headset for a phone call. In this case, the mic on the ConnectClip (which is used as a Remote Mic) will act as the phone mic.
1.d You can only pair the ConnectClip to 1 pair of hearing aids at a time, unlike unlimited hearing aid sets pairing with the TV Adapter or up to 10 hearing aid sets with the EduMic.
1.e You can use the ConnectClip as a remote control for your hearing aids for volume change and program change and to mute the aids.
- EduMic:
2.a Unlike the ConnectClip, you cannot get a streaming audio from a BT wirelessly connected device (like a BT laptop or Android phone of any other audio source that can send via standard BT connection. You can only get your audio source from a mini plug hardwire connection. Beside that, you can also get a hard connection from a standard Europin wireless FM (DAI) connector for an existing mic system in the classroom.
2.b You can also get sounds picked up remotely from the built-in mic of the EduMic, which will function similarly to the Remote Mic feature of the ConnectClip.
2.c The difference is that you can pair up to 10 sets of hearing aids on the EduMic, while you can only pair with 1 set of hearing aids on the ConnectClip. The Edu Mic program will be automatically created for you when you do the pairing of the hearing aids to the EduMic. The TV Adapter allows pairing to an unlimited number of hearing aid sets. The (up to) 10 paired sets of hearing aids to the EduMic will automatically activate and go to the EduMic program in those 10 sets of hearing aids when they’re within 65 ft of the EduMic.
2.d Although you can only pair up to 10 sets of hearing aids to automatically go into the EduMic program within 65 feet for the EduMic, you can actually pair more than 10 sets of hearing aids with the EduMic. But the 11th set of hearing aids and later will not be stored in the EduMic and therefore will not be automatically connected to the EduMic within 65 feet. But the act of pairing will add the EduMic program to the set of hearing aids, so that you can manually select the EduMic program on these 11th set and on in order to connect to and hear from EduMic’s mic.
2.e This EduMic program is incidentally the same program as the TV Adapter program, so I don’t really know what happens when you need to pair your hearing aids to both an EduMic and a TV Adapter. I don’t really know which will take priority and snuff the other one out. Or maybe they’ll both come through and get combined/mixed together. If anybody who happens to have both and knows the answer to this, please share.
2.d There are no volume buttons on the EduMic, unless the ConnectClip which has 2 volume buttons to help control both the streaming and hearing aids’ mics volume combined. There’s only 1 general purpose button on the EduMic.
2.e The EduMic can also be used like a telecoil to pick up the magnetic audio loop in a theater or church or from a neck loop. You must specifically push the general button for 10 seconds to activate the telecoil mode. Once in the telecoil mode, the mic in the EduMic is disabled. You can mute/unmute the audio in the telecoil mode. Long press for 2 seconds to exit telecoil mode.