I eliminated the warble–comb effect?–from my Signia AX7s by creating a music program that turned OFF, not down, feedback management feature. also I turned off compression and wind in noise and some other feature that I forget.
Good the hear that Puresound has less processing. I’ll trial Widex for my next pair of HAs, which won’t be for several more years. By then Widex and others may have changed their formulae yet again!
kiki, thank you for stating the impact of the comb filter effect so well, on people for whom sound quality matters immensely. With my first HA (Costco Phonak’s), I would go into a deep depression after two weeks, resolved by not wearing them for a day or two. To have the quality of a valued sensorium continuously destroyed by my HA was intolerable to my being body. I had lost my god, as you put it. Recently got Widex Moment Sheer 440 HAs: too early to say conclusively yet, as they are not yet dialed in by the audi, but they sound so much better that I don’t want to take them off.
Just to follow up, at last was able to try PureSound and given my HA setup and profile I get a lot of squeeking feedback, so it isn’t working for me. I have to set high frequencies way down, which kind of defeat the purpose of having HA in the first place. Oh well, at least I tried and satisfied with the Universal program.
I was struggling a lot with the SmartRic for a while and HA in general. It was just way too loud for me in all modes. My 2nd Audi at HearUSA said I should not be set up as “experienced” but could stay at the adaptation level of 4. Wow what a difference for me. Yes maybe my hearing is not optimized for speech but what good are they if I’m uncomfortable with the loudness all the time? I might not ever be set to “experienced” and don’t care.
And I’ve been wearing HA about 2 years now and my brain is probably not going to eventually get used to the loudness. For the first time I really enjoy what my hearing aids are doing for me. And Puresound is also now useable and actually preferred most of the time. Yes it can feedback if my ear is close to something and in fact I was able to even bump Puresound levels up a step in volume in the app. Voices, especially my own voice, just sound much more natural with PureSound. In the car or extremely noisy places I use the Universal program (since I have the transport option set up for max noise reduction and the SmartRic does automatically switch to that in the car). I will sometimes use a ZEVOX headset with mild ANC cancelation while watching TV and that will make Puresound feedback a lot so I just switch to Universal.
I’ve recently been experimenting with using the Puresound mode, adjusted down a bit with EQ in the app for my live guitar playing. The music program is different than Puresound although both have much of the noise and feedback options off or very low. I wish there was a way to set up a Puresound music program (maybe there is?) but I don’t see how and will ask my audi next visit. I am not doing any DIY with this new audi since I’m pretty happy with what she’s done for me so far but I have played with the compass software in demo mode to know that you probably can’t make two music programs, one using PureSound and one not.
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