Yesterday my audi told me that the Oticon rep had requested a personal meeting with him next week. The audi said that that might indicate that Oticon was about to release new HAs. I checked, and the current Oticon Intents were released in February of 2024. This would seem to me to be a very short time interval between new product releases. Has anyone heard anything about new Oticons?
This is of interest to me because I am in the middle of a trial of Phonak Infinio Spheres. I trialed the Intents, and they were a slight improvement on my current Mores, but not enough to justify the out-of-pocket expense of buying them.
My audi has been unable to get trial Spheres from Phonak, so I bought them outright in December in order to take advantage of an insurance benefit in calendar year 2024, with the proviso that I could return them for a full refund within 45 days. Now I have been switched to a new insurance plan, and I was pleased to be told that I could get another insurance benefit in 2025.
The Spheres are a major improvement in speech-in-speech-noise, as I expected them to be, but they sound unnatural to me. When I put on my Oticon Mores I feel like the world sounds normal again. The best of both worlds would be the natural sound of the Oticons with the background noise reduction of the Spheres.
I am hoping that new Oticons would give me that. I’m wondering if Oticon is speeding up their product release cycle in order to keep up with Phonak’s speech-in-noise breakthrough.
ok thx for reply… I’m actually trying out the nexia’s now but told audi I didn’t think I’d buy them because they’ve been out a long time… wish there was more info on possible new ones coming out
Agreed. It seems Oticon has gone quiet, and they don’t seem very interested in updating their lines. Another reason why I am going back to Phonak. We’ll see how I feel when I slip on my old Phonak NAIDA B90s this morning after my audiologist appt. I just had another reboot with my XCeeds…when it’s been completely quiet…not happy about that in the least.
