Plus Oticon offers an additional $50 direct rebate via their website.
Thanks for sharing this. I went on their website and searched for “rebate” but it came up empty. I didn’t see any obvious rebate link at their home page to click on. Can you put up a link on here for us to follow? Thanks again!
I contacted my local Aud. this AM and asked her about the Free Trial and the cost. She said they didn’t offer the Free Trial and also said this was they’re pricing.
There are three levels of technology: the medium for $3850; premium for $4850 and elite for $5850.
That’s interesting as the levels are known as OPN 1 (highest) OPN 2 (mid level) and OPN 3 (entry level).
As a data point I was quoted $6995 by one local Audi and bought them from another local Audi for $4665 after comparing price locally and checking with my Insurance company for an approved provider. A few phone calls saved me $2300 so my advice would be shop around or check with Oticon for their approved providers in your area and ask them all for a quote then decide.
Hi…again, thanks for your help.
Well, received a new pair of Alta pros…they just replaced instead of repaired. The first thing I noticed was they were so much louder than the opn1s even using the exact same program. Well have had the alta pros back and they are fine. Much, much better than the first pair. Too bad I had to suggest sending the original pair back and dealing with them for 2 years. I have one more year on the current warranty… then I will decide whether to upgrade. I must say, though, that the opn1s were like hearing before hearing loss. (sigh)
Glad to hear that you got brand new Alta pros as replacement. The loudness difference may be due to many factors like dome or mold fittings or programming, etc. but it can easily compensated for if it’s simply a volume difference by adjusting the default volume in the program. The more important thing is the clarity, not the volume. Especially clarity in speech.
FactoryDirectHearing.com is another online source beside BuyHear.com. They seem to be a little cheaper than BuyHear.com even. The OPN1 is $100 less, the OPN2 and 3 are $112 less.
One of our poster, Bob H, reported buying the Signia Primax 7 from them and got great service from them in doing his own programming on it.
I am currently wearing Resound Linx( the original or early version). I tried Oticon opn for a week and returned them because I did not notice any difference.
Super helpful thread.
1 Can either of these online sellers provide custom molds with the new 105db receivers? How does the process work for taking impressions?
2 Have people been able to find the fittinglink online to help do DIY or self programming?
If I remember correctly, one of our forum members who bought from BuyHear.com (abarsanti) mentioned that he’s been considering getting custom molds for the OPN1 he bought from them. You may want to PM him to see if he proceeded with it. Or simply call them up. I hear they’re quite responsive and helpful.
As for the FittingLink 3.0, I heard about a few forum members buying them from aurem.dk in Denmark for around $300 and have been successful in DIY programming. However, I think you can also buy the general wired type and it should work just as well.
But if you buy from the online places and require more adjustment after the initial one, they basically send you a FittingLink 3.0 to your house so they can do remote adjustment for you. After you’re done, you can return it to them. So this way you can experiment using it for your own programming before deciding to buy your own FittingLink module. But beware that Firmware updates need to be done on the wired programmer, however.
Thanks for the as always helpful response! I’ve reached out to abarsanti for more information. Also, FYI to all, as per one audiologist, Oticon is running a promotion in May “Better Hearing and Speech month Special”. However, the prices of BuyHear and FactoryHearingDirect are still much cheaper than the $5-6K price quoted by an audiologist.
Can you reference me to the wired programmer options and firmware issues as opposed to the Fitting Link 3.0?
Check out the DIY section of the forum to learn more about self programming. Here’s one of the links: http://www.hearingaidforums.com/showthread.php?21831-Hearing-Aid-Self-Programming-Help-for-Self-Programmers
Hi,
According to my audiologist, the new Oticon OPN PP will cost approximately £2,000 per aid. So £4,000 for a pair. They have now been released and my audiologist will be ordering a pair in for me to have a look in a couple of weeks.
Obviously the technology has been successful enough that Oticon have released a Power version, but I am interested to see how they will work for those like myself with a profound hearing loss and have been deaf since birth. I am sure I will not recognise many, many sounds that the OPNs will pick up around me so I fear it may be quite a difficult adjustment for me…
Seriously? They aren’t going to be magic!
Yes I know. But it is still a very different type of technology to the traditional directional technology I am used to.
You mention firmware updates. How often are they ordinarily done? I guess I would have to go back to my audi (with whom I am just marginally satisfied) for them, but how am I to know and, more importantly, how am I to know which ones are important and which are relatively trivial?
You can ask around on the forum and people can tell you which firmware updates are more important than which. But usually almost all firmware updates are desirable anyway.
The FW 2.0 was released end of 2016 and contained improvements to the iPhone streaming issues, but didn’t resolve them all. I’d consider this one not a major one.
There is no FW 3 update. The FW 4.0 release was in June/July’17 and is a major one. It fixed most of the remaining iPhone streaming issues (and iOS 11.0.3 helped fix almost all the rest), and it also has Tinnitus support and more importantly, the additional of the Speech Rescue LX functionality.
ICAM re: the OPN 1’s. My audi made a mistake and ordered the 3’s and I wore them for several weeks before she was able to get me the 1’s, so I have a basis for comparison.
In a word, there is no comparison. I cannot imagine a better hearing aid, really can’t. Everything is simply amazing and just blows the 3’s out of the water. If you can possibly afford it, buy them. Heck, buy them even if you can’t afford it!
And it’s not a matter of features as one other poster said. It’s speech clarity and comprehension not to mention brightness and lucidity. Moreover, the streaming is simply phenomenal.
They will have to pry these from my cold dead hands .
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Hi, On EBAY they are $3188.00 for a PAIR, of Oticon Opn 1 MiniRITE-T Receiver In Ear Hearing Aid For IPhone, 2 yr. Warranty included. When you buy them you will need to have them programmed at a local provider. You have to think that the hearing aid business is just like the optometry business in that you can get an eye test and then take the prescription to another dispenser to get your glasses. Who wants to overpay by twice or three times the amount to your local provider when another dispenser will give you a much better deal. I buy my glasses at Walmart because they have good quality and low prices. I buy my HAs from an audiologist on EBAY top service, top communication, he programs my HAs and they come ready to wear and function, and he saves me 50% of what a local provider would charge me. For the price you are going to pay I would buy a Signia NX7, or a Resound Linx 3D 9. Much better than Oticon line.