Hi - Here is an update on my Phonak issues. I have been back to the audiologist a couple of times since I last posted. The speech-in-loud-noise program was disabled, and the gains were tweaked. This has helped some – I can hear fairly well in a quiet room, nearly equivalent to the old hearing aids. In noisy environments (restaurant, loud fans, city traffic) the speech still becomes muted and muffled. This did not happen with my old aids – speech tended to cut through the background noise. I suspect it’s a different program that’s automatically kicking in in those situations (comfort-in-noise, perhaps). I am trying to switch back and forth between the old and new in those situations so that I can better describe what is happening, and in what settings. If I can identify specific situations where they perform differently, it might give us a clue as to what is going on.
I was very happy with my old aids, and my goal was to have the new aids perform exactly like the old aids. But we seem to be having trouble even getting close (I realize the algorithms might be different, so an exact match might not be possible). We’re still missing something. Something is happening automatically in the presence of background noise that distorts speech.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Isosceles.