Posted on 04/29/2025 9:45:33 PM PDT by Red Badger
So true... (Sigh)
Do they have an app with an equalizer that ets you adjust the level of each frequency?
That *sounds* pretty frustrating.
Yes, you can do that with your smartphone app and save it.
The only thig about it is it’s not saved in the device itself, just on your phone. So every time you turn off your aids they revert back to their permanent program from the audiologist’s data. You can reload any of 4 programs you store for different locations, like ‘WORK’, ‘RESTAURANT’, SPORTS GAME’ etc...........
And each ear is separate.................
Why hearing aids are 96 frequencies. I get a detailed hearing test and then the audiologist adjusts the individual frequencies according to the results of what I can hear at those individual frequencies.
So in answer your question it’s done by the audiologist
I’ve been working with the same guy for 8 years and I think there’s a bit of an art to the adjustment
That’s a dumb design. Why can’t they store the setting in the device?
Probably has something to do with the available space.
When I go to the audiologist to check up she has to take them into another room to permanently program them with the data chart of my hearing test frequency response. So I don’t know how it’s done..............
You should be able to adjust it (tweak it) yourself for the particular environment you’re in.
If certain frequencies are coming in too loud you lower them, if too low you raise them.
You don’t need an audiologist.
“Probably has something to do with the available space.”
Are you kidding? It’s probably no more than a thousand bytes. With the gigabytes you can store on a tiny chip that’s nothing.
These aids also have 12 levels of volume controlled by buttons on the top of each aid as well as button for changing up to four programs that are permanently programmed. Plus see my post 20 for more info...............
It needs the ability for the user to choose which voice to focus on. Otherwise, you’ll be hearing the wrong person well, and the right person poorly.
I don’t go to cocktail parties for many reasons. One of them is that most of the conversations that are going on are not anything I care to join in on.
If there is more research on improvements to current technology then great, proceed with my blessing.
However, some currently available hearing aids do a good job filtering out unwanted sound with multi-mike arrays and software. Jabra and Rexton, to name two.
I called the tinnitus help line, but it just kept ringing.
LOL!....................
*** I called the tinnitus help line, but it just kept ringing.***
So funny!
My hubby needs hearing aids. I have been wondering what is a good option currently available?
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I was watching for suggestions, too. What served me well for many years until my hearing got a little worse was Unitron. Then I read in Consumer Reports that Oticon was great, but I don’t like them. So the search continues...
My hearing aids are almost 8 years old. They are programmed for quiet or noisy environments and I can switch between those two settings. I can also adjust the sensitivity, the sound volume by six decibels in either direction.
I have no desire to sit in a restaurant and play with dozens of different frequencies in my hearing aids when the reality is my discrimination is so bad it doesn’t help much anyway
The cheapest hearing aids with the best quality come from costco because the best models create costco brands at costco prices from the same factory.
Costco is my source now. Incredible savings.
If it requires binaural hearing, I am SOL.
Only one ear sort of works,
The background yammering is a very real thing.
The aids just make everything loud, not more comprehensible.
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