@Abarsanti I realize this thread is from awhile ago and I haven’t read all of the posts in it yet but I wanted to thank you for sharing your experience with the Philips 9030. I too have reverse slope hearing loss and fittings have been a problem for 30 years. Today I made my first ever trip to Costco where the fitter recommended this Phillips aid. Which is why I’m searching posts about it.
I’m very reluctant to buy a Costco-only hearing aid but finding out that DIY programming can be done on them at least gives me some comfort that if Costco fitters can’t get what I need with the aid maybe I can. Not that I want to, but I probably have enough tech background to do it if necessary.
I’m also happy to hear that these Phillips aids seem to work well with low frequency loss. That’s what the Costco fitter told me and was one of the reasons she recommended them. The other is speech in noise. Background noise just wipes out almost every other sound for me.
I also appreciate your advice about reducing the gain in the high frequencies. I’ve always been highly sensitive to noise in general–prefer quiet environments–and those high frequency sounds are often startling or grating.
Reading the rest of this is on my weekend to do list. Again, many thanks.