Big decisions and all of research can be daunting - good work reaching out. This forum along with Facebook groups for each brand were helpful. Zooming with each brand rep very helpful to me. It was important to me to have my CI and HA work together, and I liked the electrode expansion capacity in the AB array.
I am one month post activation for my AB CI and am having excellent early results. I was borderline for approval with steep ski slope hearing and decided to do it sooner rather than wait for more hearing at deteriorate.
I find the CI and HA work very well together from one app. I stream a couple of hours daily and wear mine for about 15-16 hours daily and have never depleted beyond 50%. I have the medium size battery. The large will go longer. I have the option of carrying the physical battery accessory with me as backup but haven’t needed it.
Another factor to me is that my AuD locally has a lot of experience with AB mapping for follow up. I did my surgery at Vanderbilt five hours away and wanted quality mapping close to home.
Always happy to chat via PM.