Sonova (Phonak's parent company) bought Sennheiser and you can now buy their Sonite R at Costco for $1600. If you have recent Phonaks, you'll recognize the design immediately. They also have an array of peripherals: https://www.costco.com/f/-/sennheiser-brand-showcase
Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
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Thank you so much for commenting. As a parent with a child with mild-to-moderate hearing loss it is heartening to know that the hearing aid technology is progressing, and progressing well! He's been using a pair of Phonak Skys since infancy, and while they can be tuned by the audiologist I sometimes wonder what it'll be like if and when he gets his next pair.
My son is 14 and has a moderate to severe loss. During his younger years we had a big clunky behind the ear type of aid and it was fine for a while. But tech progressed and we started noticing that he was having trouble hearing "s" sounds. I researched and got him the Oticon Real and it's been amazing and his speech dramatically improved with the new tech. There have been a lot fewer problems with wind noise and he c…
Any links?
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I would absolutely love for Apple to make proper hearing aids or license their chipset to a HA maker. Before I became completely dependent on HAs I had a set of Beats headphones with the Apple wireless chipset in it and the ease of switching between devices with it was amazing. With my current HAs I essentially only can use it for sound with my phone.
This seems like such an easy win for them, hopefully they see the value
The big problem is that I want prescription-level HAs and the regulatory apparatus around this is complex enough that they probably don’t want to bother.
Re: Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
#194I just replaced my Jabras (from Costco) whose microphones stopped working. I tried Phonaks and found that the use of Bluetooth to connect to my iPhone was painfully flakey (there were certain locations in my neighborhood that every time I walked in front of a particular house, I would lose audio). I ended up returning them and the only MfI hearing aids the audiologist I went to (I was limited by what was in-network b…
Losing audio in front of a certain house may be related to devices I’ve noticed my own neighbors beginning to use, which are those high pitched audio emitters that ward off voles etc. We don’t have that issue in our neighborhood and especially in front yards so I suspect it’s to keep dogs from pausing in their yard. In any case it’s a periodic high pitched burst. I wonder if that was what caused your issue with the p…
How would an audio emitter affect a bluetooth signal?
Re: Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
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This is the case for any Bluetooth microphone headset, it has nothing to do with the hearing aid “trying to mimic AirPods “it is because Apple refuses to give us fine-grained controls on our Bluetooth devices
Depends if the hearing aid presents itself as an audio sink (with no mic) or as a headset with mic. The phone will only use the mic if it's available (which is generally what you want if you're using an actual headset).
Right, and the hearing aid has a microphone, so it presents itself as a headset with mic. This is not new, the Oticon also does this.
The difference is that the Oticon supports the "Made for iPhone" hearing aid settings which means you get fine-grained control over which microphone is used.
Apple should give that control to all devices, including standard bluetooth headsets.
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#196Nuance has a unique offering: prescription hearing glasses built for noisy environments: https://www.nuanceaudio.com/en-us/c/hearing-glasses
A relative got these and really likes them.
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#197A relative got Nuance Audio Hearing Glasses and is very happy with them: https://www.nuanceaudio.com/en-us/c/how-nuance-audio-glasses...
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#198I'm not going to give a direct recommendation on the hearing aids themselves as my personal options have been pretty limited due to profound hearing loss. I can say, however, that hearing aids are not the only thing that helps - especially with meetings/noisy environments. I [recently wrote an article][0] going over my journey, but the recent technology that significantly improved my life has been live captions in gl…
Does Captify perform any diarization?
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#199Best hearing aid now is Starkey Omega AI 24
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#200I'm about to choose the Starkey Omega AI 24.