Hi.
I’ve been struggling trying to get a pair of hearing aids I really like. I have the old Rexton KS7’s and recently tried the new Jabra Enhance Pro 20s and now the Rexton Reaches. The Jabras had a wonderful feature in the app to reduce background noise. When I adjusted the noise suppression in the Jabra app, the noise reduction was akin to what I’ve enjoyed on my Apple Pro Airpods. It was quite impressive and it really did filter out a lot of the background noise in a restaurant. However, the Jabra domes hurt my ears and they didn’t offer a sleeve shaped dome, so I had to return them. While the Rexton Reach hearing aid domes work really well for me, the noise suppression seems to be non-existent when I switch to the noise program setting (I had the Costco audiologist set up a couple of different noise suppression programs for me in my initial fitting). I am also trying the Elehear Beyond OTC hearing aids, but I’ve found that they also don’t seem to cancel out any noise in a noisy restaurant like the Jabras did. In fact, I can’t hear any difference whatsoever as I adjust the noise suppression level on the Beyonds.
Are there any other hearing aids besides the Jabras out there that actually do provide noticeable noise suppression in a noisy environment like a packed restaurant?
When I first got my Jabra Enhanced Pro 20s last month I thought that the, “Hear in Noise” card in the app wasn’t working. When I went back for my follow-up appointment, I had my hearing aid specialist add the manual focus back to the app. The previous Pro 10s had this feature, but your hearing aid fitter has to activate it to make it appear in the new version of the app. This really made a big difference. I’m sure that the software folks thought that an automated function would be better than a manual adjustment. However, I was having lunch with a friend, right before the holidays. The restaurant was exceptionally busy with lots of screaming little kids. When I adjusted the focus to narrow, and my friend seated across from me, I was astounded by how good his speech sounded. When I switched back to the, “All Around”, card the level of the background noise startled me.
Another feature that I liked with the Jabra app, is that you can save a setting o a geographic location. Today, I took my daughter out to lunch at our favorite barbecue place. I set up the, “Hear in Noise” card to where it sounded good today. I named it and saved it. I’m not sure if the hearing aids will automatically switch to that custom setting when I return.
Yep. I had the audiologist add the speech focus feature via enabling the “autoscope adaptive functionality” in my Jabra app as well. When I used that feature, it didn’t quite work out well for me and seemed to accentuate some unwanted noises off the side and back when I had it set on a narrow forward-facing beam. But what really knocked my socks off was the Jabra noise filter. It has been the only hearing aid I’ve tried so far that could really tamp down much of the background noise in a place like a busy restaurant. I just wish that the Rexton domes would work on the Jabra hearing aids
Are you referring to the button on the card, “All Around”, labeled “Noise filter”? Or, the button on the card, “Hear in Noise”, labeled, “Noise filter”? I haven’t figured out tthe difference. The documentation on the app, leaves a lot to be desired. What’s the difference between, “Speech clarity” on the card, “All Around”, and, “Speech focus”, on the card, “Hear in Noise”?
No, I didn’t. I will discuss that option with the audiologist when I see him again this week for a follow-up session with my Rextons.
I’m also going to make sure that the noise programs were set up correctly on my Rextons. I seem to recall that he was just primarily lowering the bass frequencies when setting up the noise programs and that he was not adjusting the directionality and/or manual noise management settings. Thanks.
