There is no guarantee that I will get new aids these are less than a year old, but they do have static in the t-coils so that option isn’t available to me without either repairing these aids or maybe upgrading them to the More aids. I guess that will depend on the VA or Oticon or both. I am happy with my aids, I still have issues with female soft voices and females wear mask, I do much better with male voices even with masks on. I would say over all I am understanding about 85% of speech with my aids, which is better than I have ever had, and with the latest adjustments maybe even closer to 90%
Good on ya! I almost pushed back against my audiologist’s recommendation of More3 and insisted on OPN S, based on the outstanding reviews of the latter that I had read.
I’m glad I trusted him - so far, no regrets.
In a way, I’m glad I ended up being an “early adopter” of More: I couldn’t find any objective end-user reviews. In my quest for same, I happened on this site, which has contributed to my successful use of hearing devices in unimaginable ways.
I’m extremely grateful for the Forum, and for members like you who take the time and make the effort to help guys like me out.
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Sorry: I’m only posting this to vent off some steam. I really am not expecting a reply, as such.
Although I like the ON app for giving me easy access to the controls for my More3s, and also for allowing me to keep precise tabs on my battery status, the Hearing Fitness feature is useless.
I’ve been up and “plugged in” since 05:30h. It’s now 17:30h in my time zone, but ON is saying I’ve only been using my aids for 3 hrs 25 mins.
I haven’t fiddled with any of my iPhone connectivity settings, and I haven’t any idea when my aids were not connected to my phone.
As a consequence, I won’t be able to demonstrate my pattern of usage to my audi. What is annoying me is the unreliability of this app in maintaining a connection, and not the lack of precision in the relatively useless data it’s collecting.
So - there it is - my rant for the day. I honestly don’t think it’s worthy of any serious reply, but it feels good to whinge for a bit!
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The hearing fitness needs a rebuild, but I have found it most times catches up the next day for the previous day. I have it enabled but I realize it will not give me today’s information until tomorrow or even the next day if ever
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I’m interested in tracking my usage because I was using my (ill-fitted) Unitrons less and less, and I noticed the corresponding decline in my word recognition.
Since March 3, I’ve been assiduous in wearing my aids for 14-15 hours a day, and I have already noticed an improvement in my word recognition - even when I’m not wearing the More3s.
That further reinforces in my mind the correctness of Oticon’s notion that our brains learn to focus on and decode the sounds of speech, even when the neural signal sent to the brain by the ears is less than perfect.
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Another reason to have a journal.
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I have gone digital with my journal with “Day One”
It is available on IOS and macros not sure about any other systems
I still prefer my fountain pens and good vellum, thanks!
[Not real vellum! Paper vellum!!]
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My hand writting has always been very bad, I am left handed and my first grade teacher tried to force me to write right handed, until my dad put the fear of God into her.
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Left handers who try to write with fountain pens end up a MESS!
[Good for your father!]
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Your hearing loss looks a bit more severe than cvkemp’s so if you both had the same listening environment, your aids (if they consumed power at the same rate for the same amount of input and amplification) would require more power. But if you listen to more sound than cvkemp, that would require more power, too. Usually on the standardization datasheet for a HA that gives amplification under standard reference input conditions and battery usage hours, there is a disclaimer that usage hours a user can achieve depends on hearing loss, environmental sound levels over time, etc. OTH, cvkemp does more streaming - so it is a pretty qualitative comparison between users. I don’t know whether you can tell the difference but your left ear requires a little bit more power than the right (less hearing loss there) so it would be interesting, since they both have ~the same listening environment and they are both the same model HA, I presume, whether the right always does a little bit better on battery drainage than the left? (I have a slighter loss difference between ears and my audi claimed my left would drain faster - but in my experience it’s more a function of the individual HA body I’ve been given - some left Quattro’s have done better than others).
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@jim_lewis: You’re exactly right, jim, and I’m very grateful for your reply. I’ve read many of your posts, and I understand why you’re considered a respected community member.
I haven’t fully digested your input, because I am in town and busy with appointments.
But I wanted to make a quick reply because I was so pleased to see that you responded to my query.
Thank you, @jim_lewis!
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@SpudGunner. Thanks for the compliment, not sure I deserved it but hearing loss is debilitating and it’s great that this forum exists to help us learn from each other how to cope better - although at my age I think I am forgetting faster than I am learning!
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My right hearing aid always uses up the battery faster, I know my right ear needs more of a power push for one, and everything I have read seems to point to the fact that the right hearing aid is always the master hearing aid when it comes to communications, with bluetooth and even the communications between the hearing aids. Also if you monitor the connection of the ON app to the hearing aids I have noticed that it is always the right aid that connects first then the left. That is also true when watching the connection to the TV connect the right one will always connect before the left aid.
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“@SpudGunner. Thanks for the compliment, not sure I deserved it.”
… umm - I think you did, @jim_lewis: I envy your understanding of the technical details of these little “ear roaches”! 
My answer about Oticon On App - I use it ONLY for OpenSound Booster switching on/off
I think for the OPN S or the More, you no longer have a Mute option to program on your hard buttons on your hearing aids. That would be another reason (beside the OpenSound Booster) to resort to the ON app.
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There isn’t a mute on any of the rechargeable aids from Oticon, to my knowledge. And with the native app on the iPhone you also can’t mute the aids. Only with the ON app or the connect clip can you mute the aids
I started school I believe in 1954, so about the same time as your mother
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