Good to see you on the forum still @Nikita 
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Lol. Covid and 3 kids has taken me away from pc!!! Lol. I love this forum!!
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I asked on a Facebook group who has found adaptive gain to be beneficial and they all came back to me that their Roger was useless in really noisy places.
I’m yet to try my new hearing aids out in a really noisy place with my Roger. I’m hoping my directional settings on my Roger program is beneficial to me as well.
The Roger pen in really loud noise becomes Omni and its really hard because everything is just amplified. But i was able to hear my 4 year old while she skated in a rock loud music arena.
It would be interesting to know how people are using their Roger devices in noise. As mentioned above, the adaptive gain is based on the assumption that the Roger signal has a better SNR than the HA mic. That assumption is not always true.
As distance to the sound source is the most important factor to improve SNR, it could be that the hearing aid has an advantage over a Roger Pen in some situations. E.g. if you are sitting at a table and are having a conversation with the person next to you, with the Pen in the middle of the table, the person next to you could be only 50 cm away from your HA, while the Pen maybe 100 cm from the person. The Pen would then be at a 6dB disadvantage.
A side note on the Pen is that over a certain noise level (can’t remember which by heart, but I think Nikita posted a nice cheat sheet somewhere) it will switch from omni to directional automatically. It does this on the assumption (all these assumptions, sigh) that the omni mode is no longer adding any benefit. Directional pick-up is in principle better than omni, but if the Pen is not pointing at the person you want to listen to it will not help you at all, rather the opposite.
In general, the louder the noise level, the closer the mic should be to the sound source. Directional mics and other tech will increase the useful distance, but only to an extent. In the end it’s your own hearing that will set the limit. In really loud noise the lapel mode is what you want to use. Then you would have the closest distance possible, plus the directional pick-up.
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2 x people said they use the Pen in the middle of the table.
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I guess using the Roger with your HA Mics on is more beneficial as they you can use both.
I know a lot of my friends have their HA Mics turned off.
Can I ask a question please. @RogerPM
I’ve got new Phonak Sky B90 HAs which use the Roger 18 receivers and I’m using the RogerReady as I’m lazy and hate changing programs myself.
What I’m finding is when I turn my Roger Mic on, the Roger 18s don’t always connect at the same time but they are only about 2 seconds apart. Is this normal?
The reason why I ask, is because I’m wearing 1 x brand new Roger 18 and 1 x second hand Roger 18 and wondered whether that was the issue. Altho both are on firmware 2.0!
Yes, that is normal. To conserve battery the Roger 18 only checks for a Roger signal at certain intervals. There is not synchronization between the receivers, so they can be at different points of the cycle and detect the Roger signal at different times.
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My work have just agreed to get me a Pen and a Select. They’ll really help me at work as physically I can’t let anyone wear my Roger equipment. The Pen is good for pointing and then the Select is good for when I’m at a table.
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Because of covid? That’s awesome. The pen is really pretty cool. It’s been so helpful with the plexi glass mask everywhere. This store has music support loud, plexi glass and a mask. I did not hear anything. Took out pen and voila. Although ppl find out awkward so if i see them looking at it i day is a microphone i don’t hear well.
Good luck!!!
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I work with people with learning difficulties and they won’t cope with having a mic attached to them.
Thats so cool! My son wants to do that too. 
Proud of your job 
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Thanks. Thanks
I use a small network of Roger mics with my Phonak’s.
I am trying to help a friend try this too right now and it’s not working so well for her. I sent her several Roger Clip on mics to use at her weekly work meeting. She tried a single clip on mic with a friend recently and reports that the Roger mic sounded horrible.
The specifics are that she is using a Roger Mylink in her T-coil program and is setting the My Phonak app set like this to hear from the Roger Mic.
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I am not familiar with the app. Does she have it set correctly to get sound from the Roger Mic only? IE is this setting the same as if her audiologist turned off her hearing aid mics within Target?
She tried moving the volume up and down on the Mylink and it didn’t help. What is the Volume on the Mylink actually controlling? My understanding is that if her audi programmed her aids with a T-Coil + Mics setting, that she is changing the volume in her hearing aids, and she should try turning the Mylink down to reduce some of the background noise. Is that correct?
The myLink sound quality is awful compared to the actual receivers.
@RogerPM, does newer Phonak HAs works better with Roger Select? For example: Phonak P90-RT vs Bolero V70-P with RogerX?
@Bimodal_user the P90 have to use a Roger X as well but you install it in to it rather then attach it on the bottom of the HA.
I know it, it’s Roger Direct feature, which requires Roger Installer and proper serial number in RogerX. I mean other differences, such as e.g. signal processing, effectiveness in noise, etc.
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