I tested these hearing aids in real-life conditions: on the subway, at work. I admit they don’t meet my needs.
Cons: Lack of comfort, robotic sound. I don’t feel any improvement in speech thanks to the artificial intelligence in noisy places. Pros: Small size, long battery life. Excellent app.
Have you had a fine tune appointment? I am currently playing with a pair and finding the opposite! Its possible that the settings aren’t right for you.
I wore Resound Vivia 9 for two weeks as a test and I didn’t like the sound. I returned them yesterday. From today I will try Oticon Intent 1.
Okay, but I don’t see where in response to PC’s question, you say you did go back to the audiologist and gave them a chance to improve the settings. Maybe you did. But there are people who expect plug-n-play performance from hearing aids, like eyeglasses. You know, you go to an optician and get new glasses, and 95 times out of 100, once they fit the frame to your face, you’re all set for a few years and don’t need to return for eyeglass adjustment.
It’s great if that happens with new hearing aids, but it’s not nearly as common. It’s much more common to need several appointments, each one where you go back and give very specific feedback to the audiologist about what isn’t working ideally for you, and they change the settings, and you do it again.
Part of the reason for this is that it takes time for the brain to adapt to the new input and change the way it’s processing the aid-assisted sound. The longer you waited to get new aids when you needed them, the greater the adjustment and the longer it can take. Some people who waited too long even need cognitive training to really get the most out of hearing assistance so that speech comprehension is working.
So if any of this resonates, and if you did only have one fitting session with the ReSounds, give the Oticons a fair trial with several adjustment appointments if needed before you bail. Of course you have to keep careful track of the return period. You would need a written agreement from the clinic to extend the return period, even if you’re having issues.
That’s a flat 90 on the better ear and worse on the other side. There’s not many standard RICs that will deliver enough power to an average or larger canal and fulfil that loss properly.
Definitely. I would trial the Oticons* or Infinio R/Sphere with UP. However, as Um_bongo mentioned, with larger ear canal it could be insufficient.
The Naida could be probably bettet option. Maybe Phonak will release the Naida Infinio lineup soon.
*Oticon Intent was released at the beginning of 2024, so it’s possible that there will be a new HA generation soon.
I have Oticon Opn 1 and Oticon More 1 with powerful 105 dB receivers. I adjusted them myself using Genie software and they sound great in all conditions except for the noise in the subway. So I will use hearing aids with remote receivers, they sound better than behind-the-ear hearing aids with a tube
it’s just that the Resound sound didn’t suit me, it took me a long time to get used to the Oticon sound
That’s fair enough - the 105 is usually a custom order though. It’s not a ‘Standard’ RIC as in something you’d get off the shelf. Don’t get me wrong: I’d try to make it work on a demo, but it would likely be squeaking a bit at the edges. Also good that you can tweak it yourself to make best use of the available gain.
I agree that they are a better looking package than the equivalent BTE.
You might struggle to migrate to a different manufacturer now: your ‘hearing language’ is very much tuned to how you’ve got the Oticon’s dialled in.
