@drcrandon I got Allures earlier this week, and yesterday I spent some time doing speech-in-noise testing. I posted in another thread last month about how I go about testing.
The short version is that the Allures work as well for me as the two best speech-in-noise hearing aids I’ve tried (Phonak Spheres, Apple Airpods Pro 2), at least for what these tests measure. These 3 models all perform much better than my old Oticon Opn 1 hearing aids, for reference.
Based on my limited experience in real-life noisy situations so far, I’d say that the Allures are not quite as good as the Phonak Spheres in complex noisy situations, but close enough that I’ve decided to keep them over the Spheres. I just like the sound quality much better (especially for music). The main difference with speech-in-noise is the Spheres seemed to do a better job in with voices around the restaurant table, even if someone wasn’t directly in front of me, and quieting people at the next table over.
Details on the percent of words I correctly identified with each hearing aid, using the two different approaches mentioned in the linked thread above:
| Oticon Opn 1 | Airpods | Sphere | Allure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNR -2.5 | 36% | 48% | 68% | 60% |
| SNR +2.5 | 68% | 76% | 80% | 84% |
| AVERAGE | 52% | 62% | 74% | 72% |
| % Words Correct (72 dB speech) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Noise Level | Airpods | Sphere | Allure |
| 74 dB | 48% | 52% | 54% |
| 72 dB | 62% | 56% | 56% |
| 69 dB | 72% | 66% | 72% |
| AVERAGE | 61% | 58% | 61% |