Interesting discussion and much appreciated. I’ve used Signia hearing aids for almost two years now and while they do an excellent job where speech is concerned and an acceptable job with tinnitus, they just don’t work with music. They do have a music setting but after numerous efforts by the audiologist they still make music shrill, edgy, often thin. I’ve resorted to listening to my system with no aids and just let my brain make its adjustments. Not bad, not great … I’m considering a speaker upgrade but that’s 10-15K I’m not sure I want to spend, especially since I’m wondering if my old ears can discern speaker improvements. I’m also wondering — and this is just wondering out loud as I’m not a technician or engineer— why I should expect a microphone/speaker as small as a hearing aid to be able to take the information from my system and transmit it into my ear/brain? I realize technology is amazing and vastly improved over the years, but this doesn’t make sense to me. Am I overthinking? Not thinking correctly? Not thinking at all? Still trying to figure this hearing-loss issue out…
Hearing Aids
I have used hearing aids for 20 years, but primarily for understanding voices in movies and TV. I was considering selling my Merlin TSM speakers, but in the meantime, my wife and family were starting to complain about my hi fi levels. I put the aids in, and...WOW....what a difference in clarity and depth! Why the heck didn't I try this sooner? This was one reason why I decided to stick with the Merlins. Well, as luck would have it....I have lost one of my aids. They (Phonak) were going on 10 years old so maybe it’s time to upgrade those. However, my insurance plan will only pay $1200 towards new hearing aids. The Phenol, at least 10 years ago, were quite pricey. Any thoughts from this sage group?
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