Not sure about echo-y places. If the person who is talking to you is close to you (i.e. 6-8 feet away), you will hear them quite well…even in an echo-y place. Where the hearing aids don’t do so well is in a large hall with someone speaking on a microphone with speakers all over the hall. I think the hearing aids get mixed up when the sound is coming from many different directions (i.e. speakers all over the place). There might be a program or setting for this but not sure.
The best advice I can give to you and everyone else is to test these hearing aids yourself. Everyone’s hearing loss is different and what works for me might now work for you. I will say one thing. The Spheric AI noise reduction program really works and really works well. This is not marketing spin. I have been in multiple very noisy situations where I could hear the person I was speaking to and they kept asking me to repeat myself. In other words…a situation where people with normal hearing could not hear as well as I could hear with the Spheric AI program active. Crazy but true.
Jordan