I had a very brief try at fit4speech instead of NAL2. It was not my suggestion but the fitters. It made my own voice sound loud, metallic, sharp, etc. She tried some corrections which did not help and reverted back to NAL2. The fit4speech drastically reduces high frequency but increases low to mid especially right around 1k to 2.0K which I think really made my sense of my own voice pop out in a negative way. Back to NAL2 with no changes and all is well. I also wanted transient noise control to go from medium to max to take care of things like my wife sneezing close to me, slamming doors, kitchen utensils and plates, running water, paper sounds. I had to lead my fitter there without really asking for this and she came to the same conclusion luckily. I’m trying to get used only decreasing the volume to -1 for now and we’ll see how that goes. I do have the open bass domes, 8mm and they seem to fit well. If anything I need the high frequencies dropped a bit with NAL2 but I am going to work with this for a while. I don’t use my iphone and HA for phone calls since the speaker on the iphone is really good to my ears but I do occasionally stream music and did some of that tonight in CostCo while my wife shopped. It’s not too bad adjusting EQ a bit and using a program that also adjusts the EQ. Not as good as Airpod pros though but still not bad in a pinch. I did plot out the differences between NAL2, fit4speech and fit4comfort shown below for my correction (pre-REM)
When we went to fit4 speech all I really wanted was to try high frequencies turned down a bit, maybe 2-4 dB. Now I’m sort of back to square one without the high frequencies turned down. I still think that move might help me adapt easier right now. The high setting on transient noise seems to do what I expected and the sharp startling sounds are not longer making me cringe so maybe I can set the volume to zero without the high frequency reduction after all.
