What is it about analog sound you like best?

[HearingAidHelper]

Originally Posted by Um bongo

It's an Oticon Tego pro, fine for moderate to severe loss, but if there's an increasing conductive portion, it's going to run out of steam pretty quickly.

Agreed.

[MachineGhost]

This looks promising if someone can get the guy to develop a version to boost the lower frequencies:

http://www.theearpod.com/approach.htm

[HearingAidHelper]

Theearpod... I looked over the product webpage, and I don't know what this thing is capable of. There isn't really any specifications. It claims to be louder than a high power hearing aid and presents a graph, but super power hearing aids are capable of more power than that.

If anything, this guy took an integrated chip which houses an audio amplifier and rigged up a mic and put it into an enclosure and bob's your uncle. I'm not saying this is a bad thing. Cudo's to the guy who stuck it to the man who couldn't deliver what he wanted out of his hearing aids. But this isn't a solution for everyone. Stuff like this exists already with the Williams Sound - Pocket Talker, albeit this guys amp may sound better.

If you get a chance to try it, let us know what you think.

[iceman0486]

Originally Posted by MachineGhost

This looks promising if someone can get the guy to develop a version to boost the lower frequencies:

http://www.theearpod.com/approach.htm

Not sure where he is getting his information. Standard RIC these days usually does around 40 gain. Power around 60 and super power around 70. If his device does what he says it does it can really damage hearing, since both power and super power hearing aids come with warnings about causing further damage to the hearing.

[ronfab1]

Originally Posted by flyingvee

Yes. (again) Which is why I sent back the Starkeys I trialed. I don't care how much gain the aud's computer said I had - in my ear, to my ear, to my brain, they were subjectively quieter - and as a result, I didn't hear as well.

And quantifiably - using my simple yardstick. My tv has a numbered volume bar on the bottom. I realize each show is different, but local news is pretty steady - and I watch that every morning and night. With the Starkey digitals, as opposed to my ancient GHI analogs, I needed the volume level around 15 - as opposed to 8 or 9 with the analogs. As a control, my wife can also hear quite well at a level of 7 or 8 - and she has just normal, age related hearing loss.

As for the audiologist gold standard, discerning speech, my numbers are high on that, in the test - 100% in my left ear, 75% in my right. But a recorded voice, in a headphone, in an anechoic booth, is a far cry from trying to pick out dialog from tv, let alone conversation in a public place.

I have ReSounds on the way; I also have a set of the Acoustitone Pros coming - can't wait to hear which is more useful.

And....how did that comparison work out, please? Very curious. Which are you more happy with?

Thanks

[Jagwhiskey]

Originally Posted by ambrosia

I have otosclerosis and cochlear otosclerosis so I have conductive hearing loss and nerve damage. The aide I have now, Oticon Tego pros I got 4 years ago, at the time I got them I had severe to profound hearing loss, since then I've lost more, I am now at profound hearing loss in that ear. When I say maxed out, I mean they can't make them any louder for me. But even when I first got it, and it was working much better for me, I found the volume control button pretty useless. Any changes in volume after adjusting higher or lower were almost negligible. You know some people are easier to understand than others, trying to turn it up for just certain people never helped, and turning it down didn't seem to make any difference either. I really dislike not being able to hear fire alarms and smoke detectors.....scarey!!! With the digital hearing aids you just seem to have less control over what you're going to hear and how loud you're going to hear it. Granted this is my first digital hearing aide, maybe I just don't know any better.

totally agree with you! I have Oticon Acto, only a month now - but a nightmare! I hear things that should be loud but they sound the same as something at 'normal' volume. It's so annoying and stressful!

[HearingAidHelper]

It sounds like your compression settings as well as your output may be set WAY too aggressively. You may want to ask your dispenser to increase gain for loud, and potentially increase the output levels. This 'opens up' the hearing aid, allowing it to make loud sounds sound louder rather than what you have now.



[QUOTE=Jagwhiskey;86414]totally agree with you! I have Oticon Acto, only a month now - but a nightmare! I hear things that should be loud but they sound the same as something at 'normal' volume. It's so annoying and stressful![/QUOTE]

[Jagwhiskey]

[QUOTE=HearingAidHelper;86433]It sounds like your compression settings as well as your output may be set WAY too aggressively. You may want to ask your dispenser to increase gain for loud, and potentially increase the output levels. This 'opens up' the hearing aid, allowing it to make loud sounds sound louder rather than what you have now.

Originally Posted by Jagwhiskey

totally agree with you! I have Oticon Acto, only a month now - but a nightmare! I hear things that should be loud but they sound the same as something at 'normal' volume. It's so annoying and stressful![/QUOTE]

and what if they tell me that they can't change it or that they've already reduced the compression by so much?

[HearingAidHelper]

[QUOTE=Jagwhiskey;86534
and what if they tell me that they can't change it or that they've already reduced the compression by so much?[/QUOTE]

I've answered this in another forum post, but for the benefit of the readers, the answer to this question is that you may be wearing the wrong hearing aids.

A more powerful aid may be required for continual benefit.

[elijahlovejoy]

i bought a nice $200 rexton body aid from lloydhearingaid.com.

good gear.

analogue, i believe

elijah