It does. You hear more of everything, including background noise. But because you’re hearing sound that’s not been as specially processed as it can be in the other 3 “default” program settings, All-Around, Restaurant, and Outdoors, it sounds more natural (to me). A great suggestion made by Mark Chambers is that if you’re in a car listening to music over the air from your car radio, turn down your HA mic volume a bit and turn up your car radio. You’ve increased the amplitude of what you want to hear and turned down the volume of what you don’t want to hear, i.e., the road noise. For music listening, where one can keep background noise down, I much prefer the Music program.
Your audiogram is different than mine. I have Quattro 9 61’s. Unless I really turn my volume up, where I get a little bit of tinny reverberation on loud sounds, the Quattro’s sound perfectly natural to me. I am not aware of when I have them in vs. when I don’t have them in if I’m not missing the high frequency compensation that I need. These are the only HA’s I’ve ever worn and I’ve been delighted with them since the moment I put them on. Don’t know if it’s true of all HA’s but I do feel that soft noises are amplified to be louder than they should be a bit. I don’t have any problem with sudden loud noises, though. The software handles those pretty well for me.
Strange that the audi did not insert all the 4 basic programs or ask you whether you wanted them or not. The ReSound Connectivity manual depicts those four basic programs on a number of illustrations so it would seem ReSound expects them to be present and active. I vaguely remember that all four default programs are shown in the DEMO mode of the app, too.
