To the people talking about compression: Compression and digital does me absolutely zero good if:
- Zoom calls are always muffled.
- I have trouble hearing on the phone because that is muffled.
- The overall sound of the hearing aid is muffled.
- I can’t even hear my own voice well because half of my voice is muffled (vowels).
- Muffled muffled MUFFLED is absolute horse crap.
If the overall reputation of Phonak is the fact that they have a muffled sound, then they have declined in quality significantly, and it’s time for me to look into Oticon hearing aids.
My current set of NAIDA B90 hearing aid + CROS B is out for repair and we will see how well I hear with it when it returns. But my suspicion is that it may not, because I haven’t had any Zoom calls that were not muffled since I got them and I’ve never been happy with them regardless of the tweaks we have done for the past 3 years.
The NAIDA Q50 I’m wearing apparently is the last model that had full digital linear, so its settings wouldn’t really benefit me all that much in the new B90s. All hearing aids since the Q series have done away with that and have wide dynamic range compression without the ability to do digital linear or turn off compression entirely, from what I’ve been told. Even a compression setting of 1 is the least compression (which is where I’m already at), but you still have some compression.