Have you managed to get yours updated yet Chuck? I have an appt for 5/23 but if they still don’t have new contracts I will probably cancel and reschedule down the road.
Yes I got it May 3rd. It has improved connectivity some but not completely. It seems to have improved the sound quality and my speech understand. I turned off the hands free because I prefer to continue using the iPhone microphone.
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Boy am I glad I have NoahLink Wireless. DIY baby.
I have no desire to do my own aids. After a career as an electronics technician/engineer/ software engineer, I am through tinkering with any of this stuff. I have a wonderful audiologist at the VA clinic that has as good as told me I will be getting what is next from Oticon that is fit for my hearing needs. There is no way I could even come close to fitting myself, knowing the time that my audiologist has spend on the phone and in emails with Oticon’s developers and audiologists. I am in good hands now and I know it.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not programming my hearing. At this point, I’m just juggling programs in and out of my HAs. I’ve renamed my user ID, too, so when it comes up as a connection on my phone for calls, I connect to More 1, rather than my name. My programmer also did a great job. In fact, he’s teaching me.
It is strange that you mentioned programs. Except for using the TV adapter I don’t even touch my programs or volume anymore. I don’t even have to lower the volume when wearing my helmet and riding my Vespa. I am feeling as close as possible to having normal hearing. I can drive or ride in our Jeep GC with all the windows down. No feedback issues at all anymore. Honestly while I can hear the difference between my default program and the MYMusic program I prefer my default program. I can hear and understand people that are wearing face mask. I still have to stream my calls and the landline is unusable except for using the speaker phone.
I original had 1) General 2) Speech in Noise 3) MyMusic and 4) Comfort
I moved #4 to Lecture, which is really good listening to sermons in church.
I don’t have a TV adapter at this time, but I’d like to be able to switch out a program number for that on occasion if I want to. If I get to go a Broadway Show or museum in NY, I’d be curious to be able to try the T-Coil. I’ve never used one. Don’t forget I’m new to the HA business.
It’s a hobby.
I think back over my 18+ years of wearing hearing aids. My first 2 sets of aids were ITE aids that had no controls, and no connectivity. So I only had the default program and the hard set volume. I survived okay but not great. My 3 set were MiniRite with no controls on the aids and only a single program, but it came with a streamer that controlled the volume and allowed for streaming music from an iPhone only. My next aids were ITE with a streamer that had t-coils for theaters, and worked with my iPhone and even computers with a special dongle. Then came the OPN, OPNS and the More aids. The progression has been great, with capacity to hear. But with that comes complexity that too many around my age can’t handle. When I do my volunteer work most of what I hear is can’t they make these things simpler to use and were we can hear out of them.
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You don’t need a Program slot for the TV Adaptor.
It’s like the ConnectClip Mike , where it’s automatically enabled when active.
I’ve never used t-coil, but @cvkemp can offer advise. Do you need a Program slot for t-coil, Chuck?
Yes the More does require a program slot for the T-coil
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When I was demo’ing the more 1s, I had a set program for t-coil, which was ridiculous because there is little use for it out in the real world. So, now I have the option if I ever go to a venue with it. I just looked it up… Yankee Stadium uses it. I’ll enable it when I take my son!
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I still have my t-coil program, but I told my audiologist that my default program is so good that I don’t need the t-coil program except for when I just have to use a landline phone. I have just about talked my wife into doing away with our landline phone and just use our cell phones.
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We migrated our landline number to a T-Mo sim, waited some amount of time, and then migrated it to google voice. All it does is collect calls we didn’t want to answer anyway. There is a voicemail if it is important. Listen to them on the app on your phone or tablet. Can even answer the incoming call if you really desire to…
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@WhiteHat, we did the same just to keep the number. Paid $20 one time fee to be able to keep the number alive in Google Voice.
TBH, it seems to me that TCoil is dead… or dying at least.
Nah. T-coil is super useful. Yes, it’s prone to interference, but typically, this isn’t an issue in most locations.
Everyone here is talking about landline phones, which is true. But also, consider that a set of telecoil headphones will give you high quality, no-latency, no battery drain analog stereo sound out of any standard audio jack. Which means you can connect to: computers, audio mix boards, museum acoustiguides, airplane audio, legacy auditorium systems (common in US), instruments and more.
Bluetooth will help you in exactly none of these situations. And even if you jury rig it, you’ll be introducing significant latency that can completely ruin the experience.
Don’t get me wrong, loving having MFI bluetooth on my aids— but it’s not perfect and it doesn’t even connect to a MacBook (Why not!??). So it’s not really a solve for even a WFH situation.
T-coil isn’t dead.
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I use a media cable with my Roger On mic and if it works with a headphone jack it feeds my HAs.
At this point I wouldn’t want to trade a program slot for T-coil. In eight and a half months I’ve been in precisely zero locations that support it.
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I agree. I use telecoil everyday to watch TV Altho I’m just about to get new hearing aids so I’ll be able to use the Phonak TV Connector so it might become useless to me in the end!
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I disagree I am finding uses for the t-coils at the local theater and our church. I also use them for landline phone calls.
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@cvkemp: I agree, Chuck - in fact, this week, I intend to ditch “MyMuzak” for T-Coil + Mics (which I have used before).
The T-Coil program works great with my iPhone and gives me crystal-clear reception when Bluetooth transmission quality is spotty. I used it frequently last year, with great results.
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