For me, it would be inconvenient carrying the premium charge around to charge when needed. I often go a couple of days with aids in and not sleeping. I’m used to batteries and I have to put my aids in electric dehydrator every night if not wearing them due to moisture problems in my ears. Also, based on OTHER rechargeable experience, as time goes on the length they last before needing recharge again gets less so stated time between battery charges is only good to start with.
Why can’t they spell it out that if X is important to you, you might prefer this aid instead of saying they’re both great–just go to a great audiologist.
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I am just finishing up a trial of these and overall, love them. The improvement in my hearing has been crazy, to the point that my wife is joking about how she is now asking me to turn up the TV because I have it so low.
Here’s my only issue - something seems to be off with the charger. I put them in the case at bedtime and have to unplug and replug the case for them to start charging and then once they are done charging, in about 3-4 hours, they start chirping and 'fighting" with each other. It has caused my wife to leave to the guest room a couple times now in the middle of the night as she was afraid to unplug the case. Anyone else have an issue like this? Maybe it’s a bad case or just a flawed design?
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I don’t have the same aids as yours, but my husband could tell you all about my phonaks chirping in the charger! I have to make sure that I shove them into their spots as far as possible and then close the charger firmly, or they will keep making noise. Maybe yours are doing the same thing.
I have the charger which also has its own battery. I don’t get this problem.
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Here’s Dr. Cliff again.
Dr. Cliff has posted a new video where he praises Starkey edge AI denoising capabilities.
ZipHearing has also published new reviews.
ZipHearing has also compared two titans of the hearing world and stated that both Starkey’s and Phonak’s AI are good.
Dr. Cliff’s review video has a lot comments.
One of the comments praise Starkey:
I have been wearing my Starkey Edge AI 24 RIC’s for over a month. I absolutely love them! The clarity is out of this world and I love the long battery life.
Another Audiologist says that Starkey has unparalleled speech clarity and that they had a great success with this device.
Fitted quite the amount of EDGE AI now, mostly mRIC.
Pretty good overall.
Good battery time, good design stay well on users’s ears, and pretty good in noisy environment from what customers told me. (+ the speech in noise test I measure )
I have the choice to offer the Phonak brand too but 2 chips (sphere) are a bit overload in my opinion (also the size of it). The second chip is only in used when the noise threshold is high enough. So not all the time. Starkey did a way better job with their product.
The big issue I had with the Edge AI when I trialed them was that people complained about the sound quality of my voice when I called them with an iPhone.
Do you have thoughts on this?
Change the mic input to off so that your voice is picked up from the phone mic, rather than the hearing aid mics that sit behind your eatr and further away from your mouth.
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Where is the mic input to off setting? On the iPhone or HA?
It’s selectable in the streaming section of the app. You can increase the Bluetooth stream and completely mute the HA mics.
Isn’t anybody complaining about usability?
My mom is trialing the entry-level Edge AI variant right now, and I just know that she will never use the Edge+ mode because it’s so cumbersome to access.
It seems that you can only enable/disable it via the Smartphone App and even with the App it’s not straightforward. The steps are:
- fetch phone
- open Starkey App
- click on ‘Edge+’
- click on the desired Edge+ mode
- click on ‘save’ (why not call it ‘enable’)
- wait for a few seconds while the HAs assesses the sound environment and activates Edge+ mode.
- put phone away
Done! Wasn’t that quick and easy!?
I mean, seriously, how hard would it be to allow the user to toggle Edge+ with one of the buttons on the HA. Or to be able to have a dedicated Edge+ program which can be selected via HA buttons.
Please let me know if I’m missing anything, but when we mentioned this to her Audi, the response was just a shrug…
EDIT: @freezerman404 just posted that tapping the HA can be used to enable Edge+, and I subsequently found out that that’s indeed true for the top-of-the-line model Edge AI 24. My mom is trialing the Edge AI 16, which can not be configured this way.
I have the edge AI.
You can set up tap hearing aid to enable Edge+.
Unfortunately you can not choose which mode you want.
It will only enable best sound.
I asked my Audi if that could be changed she said no
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OK, that’s still much much better, thanks for that info!
Shame on my mom’s Audiologist for not knowing this! I will pass on the information.
UPDATE: I dug a little deeper and the tap option is only available on the top-of-the line Edge AI 24.
My mom is trialing the Edge AI 16. What I described above regarding activating the Edge+ mode via the phone app really seems to be the only way to do it unless you have the Edge AI 24.
My personal experience.
Audiologist do not always know a lot about what they sell.
Especially if it’s new.
@freezerman404, I agree, even though in this particular case she was right. Tapping is only possible with Edge AI 24 and my mom was trialing a lesser version.
Ok understand.
I have the 24.
Because they defeature lower tiers to incentivise upgrading. However, I agree that it is frustrating to give you a feature but make its access intentionally inconvenient.