General (doesn’t specifically apply to Starkey Edge) advice to extend battery life:
1)Leave HA in automatic or general program
2)Minimize streaming
3)Try to avoid noisy environmments
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That is not my experience.
My loss is different maybe that’s why.
I wore mine for 24hrs.
Slept in them with the TV on.
When I checked
the battery level I had 40% left in each aid.
I know different losses use battery power differently.
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This may be a dumb question, but isn’t correcting speech in noise much easier for people who don’t have a hearing loss? As I understand it, the technical complexity is made orders of magnitude more difficult when aids are trying to help someone with moderate to severe hearing loss hear in loud environments vs someone with normal hearing?
Not a dumb question. Normal-hearing people require a lower Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) to achieve comfortable speech understanding than hearing-impaired people.
There is a term called SNR loss for measuring hearing in noise.
For example, a Roger mic can achieve even a 20 dB improvement in SNR.
From ~7:45 Dr Cliff shows marketing presentation of Starkey potential.
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Okay that is what I thought. It’s frustrating then that Zip Hearing have someone that doesn’t need hearing aids reviewing them. What benefit is it to us if he says it works for him?
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I knew from Phonak that there is limited battery power, but not from Starkey, I think you may be right.
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There is a default program on te Starkey devices, it is called “Personal” on my hearing aids. But how does it compare to the Autosense from Phonak? Is it similar?
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I think autosense adjust the sound for the environment your in .
If I’m wrong someone
will correct me.
I have the Starkeys.
My experience is when you are in personal program the aids do not adjust for the environment.
They are set for what they think is best for you.
If you go into the app and tap the three dots you can see what they are set for.
You can adjust the settings. You can, like most of the aids set your own program.
On mine I have personal, auditorium, tinnitus and music.
When I’m in a bad environment I use the edge plus program.
You can adjust it too best sound, enhance voices and noise reduction.
There maybe a program that can do like autosense.
I’ll ask at my next appointment.
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I have just found the datasheet of my old Widex Inteo-9, and there are even technology process infos:
130 nm 
The HA was released probably in 2008 or 2009.
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" https://youtu.be/jq6mW4KXmYU?si=1S_dGVZ91zklS8L2 "
Matthew Allsop has made Starkey Edge review.
(I noticed that forum doesn’t show the YouTube links, hence I rewrote it in quotation marks).
Dr. Cliff has published a short video on Instagram.
I hope for an Youtube video soon.
Sadly I am not on Instagram. So no use to me.
I clicked the X “close this box” button that came up when it asked me to join/sign in and then the video played. Annoying that audio from videos always seems to play when you don’t want it and when you do, you have to find the unmute button.
WH
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Nice promo video for the Christmas!
Here’s Dr Cliff review.
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I have had Genesis AI Edge for a year. Also one very bad ear and one good. I have a CROS in bad ear so only a Mike on that side. Closed earmold on good ear helps. Edge helps in noisy rooms but yes a tinny sound. Not so bad in regular mode. May switch to Sphere in a couple years as AI seems to be better in noise than Starkey from what I read here. Bottom line: better than the Resound non AI I had previously but not as true sound as previous Phonak I’ve had.
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Dr. Cliff posted a new comparison between Starkey Edge AI and Phonak Sphere.
Some commenters are raving about Edge’s denoising capabilities:
My hearing has improved enormously–impressively in normal situations, and dramatically in background noise. I can now participate in cross-table conversations in noisy restaurants that, previously, I just had to sit back and be left out of. I’d pretty much reconciled myself to a life of poor hearing, but with the Starkey Edge AI devices, that’s no longer the case.
I was able to hear, respond, and talk across the (10) person table in a crowded banquet hall with a DJ blasting 90’s music, something I could not have enjoyed in the past! Thank you Dr. Cliff and Starkey, you both really care about everyone’s hearing!
I have found that the edge AI aids have been an amazing upgrade and have been very capable, even in high noise environments. The edge plus mode just takes that capability up a step.
The sound quality of the Starkey Edge isn’t as natural as that of the Phonak Sphere.
I also found another review stating that Starkey did not do so well in extremely noisy restaurant while Phonak did cope very well.
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