#14

This is the perfect place to share your excitement! There are so many good people here with hearing aids who have had their own experiences they have shared excitement about. Congratulations!!

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#15

Well I’m on day 5 with my Intents. Wow…what a difference, and I’m not even “tweaked yet”. I go back in 2 weeks after taking them out for a test drive. We will do the rem then and any other testing / tweaking required.

To be honest, I don’t know what needs to be tweaked thou. My place of work is loud, but I need it loud to know how loud I need to talk, if that makes sense. I had no idea the reason why I had to repeat myself so much (I’m considered a soft talker) was because I wasn’t talking loud…because in my head…I didn’t need to…now that I can hear…holly…crap….its loud in here (about 78 db) with spikes into high 80’s. No wonder nobody could hear me talk, so now I talk over the sound I can hear and now people hear me. Who knew they had hearing problems too…lol. But if it’s too much or I need a break I can always turn them down. I feel sorry for those hearing muggles with good hearing…lol. They can’t do that.

I have only had 2 other models/brands to compare by (miracle ear and siemens over past 20 years, but stopped wearing anything 10 years ago) but I have to say…wow! What a difference. I’m sure this isn’t really a fair comparison being those other two brands where old tech. But this excitement of quality is more about the lack of quality care I have had up to now…and…two ears are defiantly better than one being I always just had one hearing aid in the past to try to save money…omg…it is so worth the money to have two…if you need two…

• The head phones over ears works like a charm…no special tweaks or setting needed…I absolutely love it…games I have played prior now have new excitement in the true surround sounds I was missing out on.

• Tv adapter….omg!! ty ty ty ty!!! I don’t even know where to begin on that one…absolutely love it! And I don’t need head phones (it was like a ritual to watch tv getting my head phones out…taking them off to get up…putting them back on…it was a pain in the but, rinse and repeat every time I get up)…that part alone is incredible, just turn on the tv and your good to go…but I love how that if I’m streaming the tv…I can either keep the ha off or low volume for the surrounding sound while watch tv with direct streaming…so that annoying loud fan can be eliminated while you submerge into the deep quality sound of the movie you’re watching with no back ground distractions…omg…so nice! And.!!! I don’t need closed captions!!!

• SpeechBooster….works…works…works…love it….done!

• Streaming…so far not a issue…I love it.(I have galaxays24)

Its has been a roller coaster of emotions over the last decade and more so the last two years knowing my only good right ear was failing to fill the void of the dead left. I was in the process of thinking that I should start learning singe langue and or lip reading thinking there was no hope and at some point I will need to learn it. To my utter amazement, not just over all, but even being able to hear out of my left at all just blows me away!

Best decision I have ever made…Oticon are great…I love them…I don’t know how they compare to others out there…but so far I have nothing but good things to say.

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#16

I have been wearing my INTENT1 aids for just over 3 weeks, and just now getting use to them enough to spot minor tweaking that could help me. I have been wearing aids for 20 years and Oticon aids for 14 years. With each generation of Oticon aids i have noticed improvement but from my Real1 aids to my INTENT1 aids it is like they skipped a generation.

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#17

Ya, I’m still green in the hearing department, so I don’t even know what tweaks I need yet. lol…I just discovered the microwave in the shop actually beeps… I made a list of areas of concern prior to getting any ha…and so far…the Oticons have check each area with flying colors.

I do find myself on the fence with turning down the aids to* silent the back grounds. But without giving up too much at the same time.

I’m hoping the rem will fix/fine tune…in short…if I turn the down a couple clicks back ground is less intrusive…and voice are more clear…but…at a lower volume. this is why I like the speech booster…it really does work well in that very situation.

I don’t understand thou…why she didn’t do rem first, she intentionally waiting to the second sitting to do…I will ask her why. But wondering if the first fitting was just set up for me to get used to them and why rem as first setting wasn’t needed till my mind learns to hear again.

Any thoughts?

#18

Ask your audiologist to do speech in noise testing to find where to set your aids for better comfortable for speech in noisy environments. The INTENT aids have amazing capability to help with that.
I don’t understand why REM isn’t done either, that is the first thing my VA audiologist does.

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#19

Usually REM would reveal that the whole system underperforms more or less (more with folks with a larger than normal ear canal as well), so usually (but not all the times), REM adjustments tend to be boosting the real ear gain values in various frequencies upward to meet the target gain values. So MAYBE your HCP doesn’t want you to get overwhelmed by a combination of new hearing aids and up-to-target gains instead.

Usually an HCP might perform REM before releasing the hearing aids to the clients, unless it’s a trial period and the HCP doesn’t want to extend the effort to do REM unless the client decides to buy them. But then many patients might find the new volume level overwhelming, and they have to utilize the acclimatization setting in the hearing aids to start out with a lower volume in the first phase, then up to a higher level in phase two (maybe a week or two later), then finally up to default volume level in phase 3.

So another guess would be that instead of doing REM first then having to setup the acclimatization process up for you, by not doing REM first, your HCP does it this way so that the acclimatization setup can be avoided, and when REM adjustments are done 2 weeks later (usually with more gains more often than less gains), then you will have already been acclimatized with the lower gain volume and now are ready with the higher gains from the REM adjustments.

All of this is a guess, of course. There’s nothing wrong with doing REM right away, nor with waiting for 2 weeks to do it, as long as it’s done eventually in due time. Maybe your HCP didn’t have time to do REM in that appointment so decided to do it in the next appointment.

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#20

Volusiano…I was thinking same thing as well. Being she does fully intend to do rem I wasn’t concerned and didn’t ask. at that time, I was more excited about having them in the first place.

cvkemp…she did do some sample speeches in noise environments samples and asked me what I like better…a…or b…I think more so a general set up to get me started. she did mention more speech test when I go back…as well as the rem.

In the meanwhile…im trying to take notes of areas of trouble so that I can bring to her. other than loud work noises. I really don’t have much to say…but…I’m not sure of myself at this point…what I’m missing or not…what needs to go down or up so I’m completely relying on my hcp to get me where I should be.

I guess once I have more hearing experience can see where tweaks are needed.

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#21

It wouldn’t hurt to ask whether your HCP can do the ACT (Audible Contrast Threshold) test with her audiometer or not. It’s a new test just released late last year so chances are that many audiology outfits don’t have compatible audiometers to do it on, but it doesn’t hurt to ask anyway. You never know. What the ACT test will do is see how well your hearing is in noise so that it can take that measurement and apply the appropriate settings in the Intent for noise control based on that result.

In terms of loud work noises, the Intent has a Sudden Sound Stabilizer feature that can help subdue sudden loud sounds to a more comfortable level, if the sound is sudden enough.

You don’t post your hearing loss so we don’t know if your hearing loss might benefit from frequency lowering or not. But that’s another thing to ask your HCP about.

#22

I will ask about the act test…thanks for the heads up. I do have the sudden sound feature turned on…it does help with the occasional spike in noise. But the over all noise is consistent to what my noise app would say equivalent to busy traffic noise. to me its like being in bar and trying talk over the music…(not concert loud mind you, just loud)

We haven’t touched the tinnitus features yet either…wanted to get the hearing stuff dialed in first and not complicate things. (her call and I totally agreed)

#23

btw…custom molds are tons!!! more comfortable than domes…god I hated the dome on my last ha. My ear was always itchy and constantly pushing it back in. I find myself out of habit trying to push my receiver back in my ear…lol…but its not necessary and keep trying to break the reflex habit. They are not going anyplace…they are just so comfortable I don’t think there are in place properly sometimes I have cannel locks on them too…so they never budge a cm.

I will never go back to domes after these.

#24

I brought my right ear mold in to my audi, asking for another fitting, as it wasn’t keeping sealed. My audi subtly re-shaped the mold, and, Voila! It’s perfect. Ask your audi if he or she has shaping tools and feels competent about this.

#25

An unexpected update:
Had to return the Oticon Intents as my insurance had a different 3 year anniversary dates so will not pay their share until October.
So in the interium I am trying 2 different OTC HAs, the Lexie B2 plus and the Sony CRE-E10. My intial impression are the Sony’s are very good, the Lexie are not bad but have a few bugs. Both have a self test the app walks you through and Lexie improves the default setting significantly. There doesn’t seem to be a default setting with ths Sony. The sound quality, comprehension, music streaming and comprehension high noise enviornment all are excellent with the Sony, but less so on all counts with the Lexie.The only down side with the Sony is it is not the tradition look for a hearing aide but more like a Apple AirPod in that it is very visible in the ear. While this is a potential negative for some it is what makes the sound quality good. It acts much like earmoldes. This is only my 3rd day of tests but I would rate the Sonys a 9 out of 10. The Lexies a 7.

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#27

so sorry to here about that cjb4…I hope the new ha work out for you.

I’m absolutely loving my intent ha so far. I go back this Wednesday for my second fitting.

I did have a weird thing where my left hearing aid wouldn’t turn on after I turned it off. I tell you there is nothing more cruel than having more than 3 decades of hearing loss…then having it “restored” for two weeks…then losing it again…omg…it was depressive and awful.

I had a feeling my charger could re set the power, so I dropped them in the charger when I got home that day and it instantly came back on…oh man…so glad that worked. I was pissed and freaking all day till I got home.

Is this something others have experienced? I think I held the power on bottom too long, its the only thing I can think of. to re clerify…it wasn’t a NOT sound issues…it was a no power on issue.

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#28

No response from a button press with one of my Intents did happen to me. Short press, long press, very long press all with no response. Dropped it in the charger and the light came on. Left it for a few minutes and took it out, all back to normal.

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#29

Exactly what happened to me…thanks for following up on that. I wasn’t sure if this was common.

#30

I learned today that there a 3 differnt levels of technology with Oticon Intent. The Intent 1, 2, and 3 with the level 1 the most expensive. Is that correct 3 diferent chips in the Intent?
cjb4

#31

Same chip, different features “locked” so pay some more $$ arnd we’ll “unlock” for you.

#32

I could have sworn there are 4 tiers for the Intent while there are 3 tiers for the Real and More.

The tier 1 and 2 of the Intent have the Clear Dynamics and the 4D Sensors feature, both of which are important if you like to listen to live music (for Clear Dynamics) and take advantage of the 4D Sensors. If you go down to the 3 and 4 levels, you will miss out on them.

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#33

Here’s the chart with the 4 tiers:

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As @tenkan said only 1 chip.
As Mr V @Volusiano said 4 tiers

#34

Thanks Flash very helpful. Interesting business model.

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