I’ve worn hearing aids for almost a decade, my hearing loss is pretty significant and has been caused by a number of factors; my love of heavy, loud, rock music (listened to for too long through garbage cheap headphones (or live concerts)), gunfire, the percussion effect of too many days on rifle ranges (24 years of none (at first) or garbage ear defenders, courtesy of the British Army), my Trade in the British Army and of course, the one thing none of us can control, age.
My vanity took me down the route of ITE (in the ear) which were/are great. The ones I have now are tiny, hardly visible. They’ve also been very problematic, I’ve had them 6 years and this is the longest (almost a year) they’ve not had to go for repair, repair caused by the fact I’m actually not suited to ITE aids. Hearing aids also last around 5 years, these are living on borrowed time so I’ve been lent, for a couple of weeks, the latest over the ear aids.
They’re automatically adaptive. They make (from what my audiologist said) some 500,000 calculations a minute working out where I am, the noise levels, the type of noise, what I’m doing and adjust themselves accordingly. Yesterday, Carole and I ate out, I looked in the App on my phone (everything has an App now doesn’t it) and could see it had put the aids into Restaurant mode. I still thought it was too noisy, so I manually reduced noise to the sides of me, behind me and narrowed the aids to directly in front of me, so I could better hear Carole’s conversation and not the hub-bub of a loud restaurant. Brilliant!! I can stream my iPhone music to them, I can answer my phone with them, and stream the call to them, I can also (with another box connected to the TV) have the audio streamed to my ears at a volume to my liking whilst not deafening Carole or others.
I’ve got ‘em for a fortnight so will see how I get on with them, but so far (16 hours) so good.
Oh this interests me as I wear them too. Mine are just Siemens (now defunct) over 6 years old now, use batteries and have no bluetooth so out of the ark but very good natural sound. They will need replacing at some point so your experience interests me. Wondering how long a charge lasts on rechargeables like this?
@casablanca End of the day, you drop them in this box and they charge overnight. Wax filters you change every 6 weeks and the little rubber thing you put in the actual ear, you change every 6 months.
Sounds as though they are all singing all dancing hearing aids. They sound very similar to ones a friend of mine has just purchased and he is very pleased with them.
Fingers crossed they suit you and also that they don't cost too much
Wow, never knew you could have such complex aids. My wife tells me I should have my ears tested but like a lot of men I don’t think I have a problem. Sounds like your pair are as complicated as driving my dashboard on the car!
I have worn hearing aids for years. In those years, I have only had two pair that have amazingly clear, natural qualities. The latest being my new Phillips hearing aids.
Fingers crossed they suit you and also that they don't cost too much