Been lurking around here for a couple of weeks since getting My Vigo Pro Connect Powers. For your house, get a bluetooth phone such as the one I bought (Vtech DS6321-3) which works pretty much flawlessly with the Streamer. Pair it once, then never have to pair it again, its automatic and very slick. Your bluetooth cell also will pair with the V-tech and you can use the home handsets to make and receive cell calls too. The thing comes with 3 handsets for your house and you don’t need but one phone jack. I paid just over $80 shipped for this phone. To answer incoming calls, all you hae to do is hit the Streamer’s phone button. To make calls, you dial on the handset, then hit the menu button twice to transfer the call to your Streamer. Very easy.
Then for the office, I got a Jabra JX-10 headset with Jabra A7010 bluetooth hub bundle for $110. Didn’t need the headset so I sold it for $40. So for $70 this took care of my issues at work. The reason I got the Jabra bundle instead of a A7010 hub by itself is because the A7010 is discontinued and getting very hard to find. Anyway, at work, you have to lift the handset and set it down on the desk, press the phone button on the streamer, then dial the phone. To answer the phone, you have to pick up the handset and hit the button on the streamer and begin talking. This part is a bit awkward at first (due to the pause from the time you lift the handset to the time you press the streamer button and it initializes), but overall works well. I usually answer on speaker phone, and if I want privacy I ask the caller to hold for a second while I press the Streamer button and turn off the speakerphone.
So for $150 and change I have my phone issues taken care of. Cheaper than the $200 my audi quoted for the Connectline phone setup…and I don’t have to carry it back and forth.
Regarding the Vigos. I am fairly happy with mine. I need some tweaking. Whenever I am driving in the car with the radio on, the aids seem to hunt for a program. Sound goes up and down and up and down continuously. I need a “music in the car” program that shuts off the noise compression entirely. I can manage the sound so as not to damage my hearing. So far my programs include a phone program (loud in right ear muted in left), and T-Coil program. My audi set the “individual” setting on “Dynamic” and I don’t think I like it. I would rather the aids react more slowly to changes in noise levels, or not at all in some situations (like the car).
Also demo’d a set of Epoq’s. I did like them better. More low tones and crisper highs. But my wallet will not allow the $2200 price difference for the XW’s.
