AlleyCat
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Deborah, I don't think you indicated your daughter's db loss. That might make a difference in how people notice a difference between analog vs. digital. My db loss is at 100/105 so maybe I'm a little too deaf to notice a difference between analog and digital. Both of my old analogs (they were 14 years old) happened to break in the same week 3 years ago so I went from wearing 2 to 0 all of a sudden, so I replaced one with a brand-new analog (because of the cost difference), and only one. I don't know if my 14-year old aids (which is ancient for HAs!) had lost so much power or if they were just not as powerful at all to begin with compared to the new analog I got, but it was like WOW! Wearing one analog felt the equivalent of the TWO analogs that had just broken. So I didn't even bother to get a 2nd HA until about 6 months ago when I was offered a new digital aid at no cost. And in the past 6 months with that new digital aid, I still can't tell a difference between the two except for the battery-low beeping. All in all, when it comes time to replace either one of these 2 HAs (which shouldn't be for a good while yet), as long as analogs are still being produced and carry the same power (or more) of the analog one I have now, I most likely will stick with analog especially because of the cost savings. Just my 2 cents.