The commissioning and first 6 hours with my first ever hearing aids (Jabra Enhance Pro 20) from Costco

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#85

I ride a bike (except that I’m not riding now because of a @#$%ed injury!), so I’m often in wind speeds of 25-35 mph from any direction. At first, the Outdoors program was great at suppressing wind noise. Then it was great for wind from some directions but not others. Now … it’s useless. No changes have been made in the programming. I just stay in All Around on the bike.

The 3rd mic is what is meant by ‘M&RIE’. I’ve had receivers with various types of molds, and the best domes I used was the tulip-shaped dome from Rexton; they were better than ReSound’s - but I have Pro 10s, and they’re different in some ways from the 20s. YMMV.

The M&RIEs are longer than regular receivers, so the domes need more space to be effective. The thing is: if you spend the $80 for molds at Costco, and they don’t work, they’ll give you a refund. Another thing is: molds are warrantied for 12 months, not 36, unless you get the molds that are not removable. Then they’re considered part of the receivers and get a 3 year warranty.

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#86

Thanks for the info, I don’t think I have the M&RIEs. My receivers in the ear don’t seem to be longer. I will ask when I have my follow up appointment.

#87

On the OUTER side of the JABRA 20s, if you have what looks like a very small diameter “hole”. I believe that is the 3rd microphone.

Jim G

#88

Hmmm. There is a very small hole on the outer side. (And 2 somewhat larger diameter holes on the top). Interesting. Thanks!

#89

I am talking about the piece that goes inside the ear canal. THAT’s where the 3rd microphone is located.The much larger piece that goes behind the ear has 2 microphone holes in it for the 2 “normal” mics used on BTE HAs.

Jim G

#90

Hi, Noreen

Here’s a link to a post in another thread that has a picture of where the M&RIE microphone is. The circular “dot” just below the receiver wire is the M&RIE filter that covers the M&RIE microphone hole. If you click on the picture, you can make it a lot larger.

ReSound Omnias with M&RIE Receivers - Hearing Aids - Hearing Aid Forum - Active Hearing Loss Community (hearingtracker.com)

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#91

MARIE

The M&RIE Microphone and receiver inside ear (MARIE) system have three microphones. One microphone is located inside the receiver part and therefore inside the ear. Two microphones inside the hearing aid casing sitting behind the ear.

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#92

Thanks for all the assistance with me trying to understand this. I don’t think my Jabra Enhance Pro 20’s have the micro receiver inside the ear. I looked at the rather skimpy documentation about the aids and I’m not seeing any discussion of it. Here’s a photo of what I have.

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#93

Isn’t the Costco US warranty for molds 6 months? Or is the warranty a year and the remake period 6 months?

#94

You have just a normal receiver without microphone inside , it is non M&RIE

The M&RIE receiver looks like this
MRIE

MARIE receiver is little bigger than the standard receiver
MRIE

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#95

Again, thank you. I’m still adjusting to the new sound of these. I’m mostly pleased. Hopefully the wind issue can be resolved.

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#96

I got molds with my EP10s. Then I got more molds because I wanted to test M&RIE about 2 weeks later; those molds came at no additional cost. Neither set did much for me, and I used Rexton domes that look somewhat like tulips.

Then a new audi suggest molds that are small and can’t be removed. She looked into the warranty(?), and I was told I had to pay because the 1st molds were made more than 12 months ago. That makes me think 12 months is the time period that’s crucial, but I’ve never gone into the details of the warranty/return period for molds.

#97

My Costco is 30 days for molds then no returns

#98

Please post if your audi has found a fix for the ridiculous amount of wind noise. With my gains, even my car A/C fan causes a loud rustling noise and thats after 3 follow up adjustments. Tnx

#99

My Jabra 20s work just fine when my car AC is blowing hard.

Jim G

#100

Yeah definitely a programming issue, I’d like to see what they have programmed down low for your loss, road noise is usually the problem, not your AC, maybe yours is just “noisy”?

#101

Im not refering to the slight noise my A/C makes, its the vent air blowing on my aids. Its wind/air noise, not fan noise. I can brush my hand on the top of my aids and get almost no noise. But just my car A/C on mid fan setting causes the rustling noise just like if you had a hand held microphone outdoors on a windy day. Its really bad and this is with the Noise Filter set to max. Are my lower feqs boosted to high? It happens on both aids. Tnx

#102

Oh I see I get it now, yeah I’d say your sitting just at the right position to have the air flow right across the microphone opening, if you tilted your head slightly it’s obviously not as bad right, and yes if you actually turned the lower frequencys down it’ll help (which is what the noise reduction does mostly anyway, i wouldn’t have this setting at maximum, it just muffles the sound quality anyway) it certainly sounds like you need a dedicated program set up for just your car, I guess you’ve tried tilting the air vents down towards the floor more instead off your upper body, if your interested in DIY you could actually set this program up on the fly, I mean you still want to be able to listen to your radio or talk to your passengers, worth looking into, and no doubt you’ve heard the Oticonians going on about the More/ Intent models being pretty good with wind noise reduction, seems the microphone opening/positioning has helped a lot for them.

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#103

Yes, i can tilt the vent but i was mostly just giving an example of how awful these handle even a subtle wind. If just my a/c on low is bothersome, just think how they sound outdoors on a windy day when the direction of the wind cant be controlled. Also probably some of it has to do with my loss and the gains i require.
And yes, as soon as Costco gets the 9050’s in, i will do a demo since i still have over 4 months with my trial on these and can exchange if better

#104

Just to let you know that the Phillips aren’t the same as Oticon Intent, seems to more likely to Bernafon or Sonic, but still worth the trial if the Jabra are not doing the job for you.

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