Added my audiogram data .I wear phonak sky V sp hearing aids
Neither one (SR1 or SR2) is likely going to do much for you. They need someplace with better hearing to shift the high frequencies down to. Your loss is pretty flat. You’d need powerful aids (you’ve got them) with custom molds (I’d assume you do already)
Thanks. I have custom soft silicone earmolds .
They may, if the highs are being impacted by feedback issues. That is, his hearing loss isn’t better at lower frequencies, but the hearing aid’s ability to provide gain may be better.
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Good point…
I went to my audiologist last week. She suggested me that the default soundrecover setting is the main source of my problems and changed some settings. Soundrecover 2 is set to a much weaker cut off and comfort setting , I think it’s about 4 khz. I made her add a speech in calm program without soundrecover and I’ll see if it makes any difference at work. For now, the difference is very slight. I played some high frequency sounds on the site (Online Tone Generator - generate pure tones of any frequency) . It was interesting to hear the sound around 9800 hz. I don’t know if it’s the real frequency or some artificial sound depending on the computer hardware. I just want to hear cruical sounds and speech information.
I cannot think of a reason to ever move to SR1 if you have access to SR2.
Also, theoretically, the audiologist should be verifying whether the SR is set appropriately on ear or at least in test box.
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My aids have soundrecover 2 only. Strong default sr2 settings made it difficult for me to understand speech. Current settings seems a bit easier for speech.
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For new users of SR2 it is always difficult to understand speech using “strong default”. But you (your brain) need time to get used to the sound and benefit from that. On the other hand you DO hear the sounds at higher frequencies without soundrecover anyway.
And of course everybody’s hearing is different.
The main reason why I use sr2 is that i want to hear more sounds not being limited to 5000 hz
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I’m going to have to have SR 1 activated to see if I pick up more birds etc. I never knew my HAs only went up to 5000 htz.
Anyone else wlth experience …
I have 2, Phonak Brio 3 (Costco) and we have it set as strong as I can stand, starting at 1500hz. I tried starting at 1300 and 1100 and I get some problems with s sounds and sh sounds. At 1100 everything had an s sound to it. 1500 is very comfortable, clear, and effective for me. I can hear things I haven’t heard in a while.
I think this is something you have to try and experience for yourself. It could definitely take some trial and error. Note the significant difference between your audiogram and Don’s.
Don, your audiogram tells me that you should at least try to use different starting points for your left and right ear and then give your brain some days to get used to the (different) sounds. Of course it may be too late if you are already used to your actual adjustments.
I tried Sound Recover 1 starting at 4900htz and compressed as little as it can go.
I personally only got SR activated as I didn’t know my HAs only go to 5000htz so wanted to see if I heard more?
I’ve found I still hear better without SR, does anyone know why?
It looks like you have a reverse slope in the higher frequencies so you would be moving better hearing into a worse hearing range.
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@Zebras is it word comprehension you are not hearing properly? My first aud just activated the icon and told me it was on.
When I watched my 2nd aud fully set up my SR2, it improved my word comprehension by 80%. He dragged all the consonants and vowels over into the range of my residual hearing. I don’t know how to explain it technically sorry.
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I’ve given SR another go as I want to hear more then 5000htz. The more I wear my HAs with SR activated, the more my ears are getting used to SR. I’m definitely hearing more birds now, I’m happy.
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I have to revise my statement. These versions ARE different. In fact there is an advantage to use SR2 but for me SR1 is more comfortable.
My statement from November was based on the fact that the cutoff and destination frequencies for SR2 in my HAs were too high for my loss: 1.1, 2.5, 3.7kHz (“9a”) instead of 0.8, 2.0, 2.7kHz (“1b”).