I have been wearing Signia AX demo aid for about 3 weeks and am VERY impressed with speech in noise. I basically have stopped attending functions where there will be more than about 8 people because I could only “nod and smile.”
However, I attended a large “pot luck” dinner with the Signias and deliberately sat in the middle of a table of 10 - 12 and by using the “focus” feature, I could understand any speaker I was facing!!!
I also attended a party of about 70 in a large room with seating at tables for 8 and again, with focus feature had good success at understanding everyone at my table!!
I will be attending a large backyard Quincenera this weekend where much of the conversation will be in Spanish which I do not understand and I am looking forward to being able to pick out the conversations I CAN understand!!!
I have been playing with a lot of demo aids over the last year. Of course, NOT in noisy situations!! But my impression so far is that these are far superior for those situations!!! And the price here is reasonable!