Not necessarily. A t-coil offers crystal clear reception when tied to a hearing loop. They where included in every hearing aid I have used. They also tie into land line phones that are commonly used in business office. They just have to have a t-coil rating 4 is best. It needs to be turned on by audiologists or fitter. Hearing Loops are found in movie theater, convention halls conferences. Some have a device that hangs on your neck to allow the t-coil to form a loop. There is a video that shows this and the difference in sound.
I run a small independent cinema in the UK and we have a system that works as follows. The customer is given a small receiver which hangs around their neck. This receiver picks up any sound track that goes through the cinema sound system via a radio transmitter. The customer will have their own personal loop system as the device will transmit the sound to their T-Coil enabled HAs. It works much better than our older system of the wire around the auditorium.
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That is becoming used more in the states. I was at a theater before Covid shut everything down and they used that system it is awesome. I glad you brought it up. It does work great. Thank you.
The ship apparently has a Sennheiser wireless sound system. You should ask for a Sennheiser receiver with a neckloop or a 3.5mm jack to which you can connect a neckloop
If you have a streamer with a 3.5mm jack for your HAs, you could connect it to the appropriate Sennheiser receiver in the same way as I connect my ReSound (MultiMic) streamer to a Sennheiser receiver
… or Monacor receiver:
Update: Sorry, just found out that it’s a very old thread.
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I seen this setup it Is different. I had good results with it. I not sure how it would work with my new hearing aids.
I use a phonak loop/compilot. I have got it to work perfectly on three devices, all streaming. I cN hear voices perfectly when they are streamed through the look from, say a phone or laptop. I struggle to hear through my hearing aids, which is deeply frustrating. I cannot accept how sound through an induction loop can be so superior I am looking at possible solutions to listen to voices, through the loop. Tried is 14.?, but there is still a lot of latency which makes it unintelligible.
Any ideas out there?
Rgds
Geoff
You might consider getting a Roger receiver to plug into the Compilot and get a Roger Pen to go with it. That way anybody who speaks into the Roger Pen woud have their voice streamed to you.
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I have a roger select. It sort of works, but I get a lot of distortion from it. Tend to lock onto loud voices which you are not even trying to listen to. What is your experience of the pen?
I just mentioned the pen because they can be obtained for less money than the Select. I’m thinking your Select may need some adjustments in the settings.
Geoff:
Can you clarify?
- Do you have a telecoil that your specialist has “activated”?
- Did he/she demonstrate hearing through a loop in their office?
- You should be able to hear the clarity that people above have mentioned. Also, there is no latency or battery drain.
- If not, Verifying telecoil levels - 2 slides.pdf (616.5 KB) ask that he/she “verify” your telecoil level, per these slides from HLAA.
Hope that helps.