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Hearing Health and Hearing Aids

olbriar said:
I don't wish to live in a walled garden but the days of playing with Android is over for me. The last four years of poor communication between my aids and my phone wiped the memory of them originally working well for almost two years. If the new aids give me communication problems, I'll be seriously looking at the icrap. (rip my lips off for saying it) It wasn't that they flat didn't work. They worked for notifications and very sorry phone connections some.. but you never knew when they quit. The phone would send the notifications to the aids but the aids would quit receiving them. There was no knowing what phone calls or text I missed until looking at the phone history. And if I answered a phone call, I would have to tell them I'd call them back. I would then turn off the aids and make the call. Phone conversations were impossible for either party to hear over the background static if they actually stayed connected. I never streamed audio... the quality was terrible and would suddenly stop after a few minutes. In other words... I could have a functional phone or I could have hearing assistance. I could not have both at the same time. UNACCEPTABLE!
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I have Oticon and it plays nice with my iPhone, fwiw.
 
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I get my new ears Saturday. I'm excited to hear better and to be able to communicate via my phone. I'm excited to try the tv audio streamer. I'm excited to get all of my notifications.
My good friend that I talked into aids shortly after I got my first set had his hearing retested Monday and is getting new aids. Though his aids have served him better than mine, they are over five years old and starting to have problems. He went with the Phillips aids and I the Sennheiser. Both aids, like most all aids of today, have an added AI chip that helps manage environments and suppose to adapt to the user. We shall see....
 
These new Phonak made for Costco sales are amazing. I'm still trying to figure them out like most all new electronics but the enhanced hearing is crazy good. The first think I noticed is they reproduce music well. I can once again recognize a song after hearing the opening few bars. That's something my old aids ruined. Music was so poorly reproduced it was near impossible to know what song was playing... no matter the volume. It's the same with voice. I've had a terrible time with understanding some voices and my wife's voice was part of the group. I think the new aids will help me communicate better with my wife.... maybe :) Phone conversations are simply stellar. That is a wonderful improvement. As I sat here this morning I was amazed that I could hear a train whistle as it came into town. I never heard that with the last aids and I can't remember the last time I heard the sound. I hear the air traffic overhead. I hear a dog barking far in the distance. I hear my keyboard that sounds like a thrashing machine while I type. The bottom line is the Phonak aids are not only presenting sound at an enhanced volume, the level of realism of the sounds is off the charts. I look forward to being in a group environment that I have tried to avoid for years. If these aids will allow me to not seem a fool in a group and can follow conversations and join in... I'll be dancing. And if I can sit in a restaurant and communicate with my wife and not hear all the patrons and kitchen staff over her voice, these aids are ticking all the desired boxes.
 
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