Hmm, I’ve heard “Rumours” to that effect 
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I have Oticon mini rites and when using JBL OTE headphones, it just sounds as it should. No interference of any kind.
My HCP advice is to try to get used to the white noise of the 0 dB level and not to adjust the volume depending on the circumstances. When I was alone in silence I turned it down to -5 and when in conversation up to -1. This didn’t work out it fine in the grey area of exchanging just a few words or sentences.
I didn’t have any occlusion effects with the semi-open Signia domes nor with the Widex tulip domes. Isn’t it strange that Oticon doesn’t offer such kind of dome? I haven’t thought enough about molds, yet.
Idk if the Widex or Signia domes would fit the Intent receivers, but it’s woth looking into, as most are interchangeable.
Start thinking about those moulds!!
Seeing your comment and other threads around here - I must be the odd one out, because I really do enjoy the default Demant-developed Music mode (on my Philips 9040)!
But now I think about it, back when my hearing was a lot better I always used to set a custom equaliser up with boosted bass and highs anyway for the music I listen to; so perhaps I happen to be the exact type of person they were targeting when deciding to use this Harmen Target…?
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You are not alone, as 70% of listeners prefer the Harman curve, but for the 30% that do not, we should have been given the option to use the legacy music program, which was less processed, and easier to fine tune.
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I think this is very location dependent. It makes me wonder if your neighborhood happens to have lots of power transformers nearby overhead on the poles, whether this might be a factor.
I used to have the Oticon OPN 1 and it doesn’t have the Tcoil option, but it cleverly uses the NFMI inductors as mini-Tcoils to offer an AutoPhone mode which works very well with my headphones, yet not very sensitive to other inductive noises around me. I use it when practicing on my hybrid piano. Then I recently upgraded to the Oticon Real 1 and it has the full-fledged full-size Tcoil option. Boy, it’s a lot more sensitive to inductive noises around me than I realized. For example, turning on a small table fan that’s very quiet sound-wise would reveal that it’s not so quiet inductive-wise with its motor. Or if I walk pass a certain section of my hallway, I can start hearing a buzzing, I think it’s picked up from the compressor coil of my refrigerator from behind that wall. Even the big bass speaker of my hybrid piano projects a hum in a certain spot as well. Luckily where I sit to play at the keyboard, there’s no hum there, so I can enjoy the sound of my piano through the headphones very nice and clean. The bottom line is that I didn’t realize that there’s so much inductive noise pollution around the house and having a full-size Tcoil makes it extra sensitive to those noise pollution.
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Yup, I live in downtown NYC, so there are electrical mains running all over the place, not to mention massive HVAC units, elevator motors, appliances stacked up in neighboring apartments, etc etc!
Maybe ask the audiologist. Could just be feedback from patients. Enjoy you ha’s.
I tried out the Tcoil program while driving my PHEV yesterday out of curiosity. Oh my, I didn’t realize that the motors make so much noise until I’m in this Tcoil mode. I hear whining going on up and down as I step on the gas pedal. But beside the main motor, there are all kinds of noises from other inductively generated gadgets that also caught my attention.
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Do people with normal hearing, hear those motor noises?
Electric motors are a lot like T-coils.
I have Eargo 7’s (which I see very little comments about in the forums?) and Airpods Pro 2’s.
I am starting to feel pretty good about the Eargo’s overall (still experimenting with the Eargo’s between using the Audiograms from Eargo’s test, from the Airpods test and a recent Costco hearing test).
For music best is the Airpods Pro 2’s - either streaming or listening direct through speakers.
However the Eargo’s (using their music setting) also sound pretty good with over the ear headphones and with no feedback. Eargo told me that using the music setting cuts down on the noise filter which would reduce any chance of feedback.
I don’t think so. What I heard through the Tcoil program was the induced electromagnetic field of the various things in the EV that got translated to sound, which is different from the actual sound of the EV motor noise make that travels through the air. So no, the induced electromagnetic field that got translated to sound by the hearing aids cannot be heard by people via normal hearing.
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With the Airpods Pro 2’s with hearing assistance on and in transparency mode you will get good quality audio and hear your surroundings.
My understanding is most HAs aren’t really designed to pass the frequencies for high quality music. Before getting my Eargo’s (which can’t stream but that’s fine as I will explain) I tried Jabra Pro 20’s which seem fine as HAs for speech but with the tube into the ear will never pass the frequencies needed for quality music listening.
Quality headphones should work better if HAs are open and can pass some of the other frequencies. I use the Eargo’s with open petals.
Streaming over Airpods Pro 2’s (set up with hearing assistance) works even better as they can pass frequencies needed for quality audio better than most HAs
With Airpods Pro’s 2 you can also use noise cancellation and get great audio streaming quality with total peace. I used this on flights last week and music sounded great and there was almost no background noise. If I needed to speak to an attendant I could easily switch to transparency mode and and have a good conversation
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My hearing loss is too severe for the airpods to even come close to working for me.
I get total noise cancelling from my hearing aids.
Don’t need air pods or over the ear headphones.
Do others not get noise cancelling from hearing aids?
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Some of us get little noise cancelling from hearing aids. I have rather typical ski slope loss, with usable low-frequency hearing. For this kind of loss, the usual thing is to have open or partially open domes to let in sound naturally. That means letting in noise. The “noise reduction” in hearing aids is really a process of “amplify the speech but try not to amplify the noise”. So I still get the full effect of the low-frequency natural noise, and I also get a lot of higher-frequency noise.
When I go to noisy environments (basketball games mostly) I wear noise-canceling over-the-ear headphones for comfort.
I’ve wondered about going to a closed (occlusive) fitting. I think that would help with noise, but it would come with other downsides.
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As the hearing aid microphone is on the outside of the ear, the headphones would have to have it’s speakers in a position to be picked up by the hearing aid microphone. If aligned well it should be the same quality of your room speakers assuming the headphones are of equal quality frequency response. The hearing aids aren’t going to allow you to hear above 8k and presumably you’ll hear the same high frequency on the room speakers as the hearing aid. A tip is to close your ears with your fingers and see if the bass response gets way better. I have put foam ear plugs in with the HAs also in, while listening to music.
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Hi, sorry I’m late to the party on this subject but I’m looking for a decent pair of headphones to use while flying, I have Starkey Edge AI ITC’s, I would normally buy a multi mic but Starkey have not brought out one compatible with Edge yet, I have the last one (got free upgrade to Edge)…
So the question is do the Headphonea with great Active Noise Cancellation work ok with HA’s or do the electronics interfere with the HA’s?
I travel a lot from UK to States so really need to get the best for the job…
Would appreciate any comments…
I’m a new HA user. Got the new rechargable Rexton Reach inoX-CIC 80’s (similar if not identical to Signia Silk iX, Sony CRE-C20)
I use both my decent quality work WANTEK headset-mic combo, and also a high quality Sony headset at home.
No issues. If I have slight feedback I just turn the volume down on the headset, or the CIC’s.
I didn’t think the Sony headset would get much better with the HA’s since they are right on my ear and turned up, but it’s surprisingly clearer with the HA’s in. I have high-freq moderate-severe loss.
That said, some specific frequencies give me some feedback, but that happens without headphones too.
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