Dear Everyone,
I have the hearing aid mentioned above, about which I would like to share my observations and experience.
I have been using HA continuously for almost 3 weeks. I previously wore a Sonic Balance Bliss BTE HA for 17 years, and I can say that I have never had such a well tuned and adjusted HA.
Unfortunately, those days are over, after a heavy sweat, the left side HA’s microphone broke, the HA can no longer be used… Although with tears in our eyes, we said goodbye to each other.
This is how I got to HA above (on both sides), which I am learning.
We are beyond the initial steps with the audiologist, I have already made several rounds for fine-tuning, but I feel that the perfectly polished “diamond” is still a long way off.
I wake up with HA and go to bed with it, so I’m really addicted to it, forced to wear it if I like it or not. I wear it for 14-16 hours every day, so the training time is also very fast.
I can listen to music, watch movies and have online conversations without HA without any problems, but I have to wear it for everyday activities, otherwise a bicycle would easily hit me.
As a basic program, I use the “Music” program, for me this is the setting with which all sounds sound complete, there are no filters and other artificial “silliness” that is lost from natural hearing. I feel this is the closest to natural.
However, there is one thing that I cannot place.
According to the audiologist, even though the SoundRelax option is completely removed, I still feel that certain strong/sudden sounds would be suppressed by the HA.
What am I thinking?
For example:
- the wind slams the door/window,
- clinking of plates/glasses/trays
- joyful exclamations/screams of children
- applause
- the sound of cutlery during lunch when dipping from the plate/pot
- it will be funny: flushing the toilet
These are all sounds that we experience and hear during everyday use, and (for me at least) it gives a kind of clue, a sense of security that yes, they should be like this.
I have also experienced that after a while talking with a colleague, the HA starts to drown out his voice as well as mine, even though we are sitting in a quiet office and there is no ambient noise, at most the clicking of keyboards.
However - even though it’s completely disabled in the setting - I feel like there’s still some distortion/overshoot that I’d like to get rid of.
There are situations in which I know how loud the sound is (e.g. I put the glass on the glass table), it actually sounds like a single tap, but on the HA I hear it as if I hit the glass on the table with force.
Sorry if I made it long, I think it is important to illustrate my question along this background.
I wonder if anyone else has experienced this? Is there a specific solution for this?