My audiologist obtained a pair of General Hearing hearing aids at my request. We tried to obtain the "Musician's" model. The unit sent to us may or may not be that model -- the manual does not identify the model, and I've not been able to find anything that I recognize as containing model information or particular information about use in listening to music. In any case, the audiologist could not adjust the unit sent because of a computer program incompatibility. The audiologist has new computers with new software, and the General Hearing units we received do not respond to the software. I have been given to understand that General Hearing is aware of the problem and is working on it. In the meantime I've listened to to the GH unit without fine tuning. It does amplify the sound, but all four programs sound the same to me. I have also tried out a Widex Dream model, which was programmed and tailored to my audiogram using the software the audiologist has available. When I listen to my two channel audio system the Widex sounds much better than the General Hearing model -- greater separation of instruments, greater clarity, much better bass. The relatively new Widex Dream model has greater headroom than previous Widex models, and its four programs -- one of which is "music" -- each sound a bit different for different applications. Unfortunately, it is more expensive than the General Hearing "Musician's" model, but in addition to sounding better than the uncustomized GH pair that I have, it has some attractive features (such as a remote control device for altering volume and changing programs). I plan to buy the Widex units tomorrow.
