As a follow up, the clarity continues with my NAIDA Q50. Day in and day out. Absolutely no changes. Echoey environments are perfect. I can hear my voice very clearly and perfectly in addition to all other noise, exactly how it should be. It doesn’t matter where.
I will be testing this against my NAIDA B90 + CROS B when I receive it back from warranty repair to see what else needs to be changed.
With my NAIDA Q50: Vowels are clear. Consonants are clear. Zoom calls are perfect and clear. Everything’s clear. I can hear every single part of a sound regardless of its frequency. From the bottom part, the middle part, and the top part (I’m sorry I just don’t know the technical audiology terms for this…maybe peaks and valleys?). When I was at the store I could hear all across the store. The beep of the forklift (which was blocked by my NAIDA B90). Being able to distinguish between loud and soft sounds is about 10 times easier.
With my NAIDA B90 + CROS B: Vowels were muffled especially when coming from my own voice, but consonants were clear. Zoom calls were always muffled and I never had a single Zoom call that was clear with my NAIDA B90 + CROS B and had to turn my computer speakers’ volume up to 80 to get any usable benefit when on a Zoom call. I could only get the “middle” part of the sound. Sounds just sound flat, dull, and lifeless. Voices were just voices, without the rich texture of voices. The music sound was just the “sound” without the texture of the sound. And I could only hear about 15-20 feet in front of me, and not across the store. I am not sure how much of this is due to the degradation of my hearing instruments over a 3-4 year period.
I hope my explanation makes sense. My audiology term vocabulary is limited.