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I know that they set a max range that you can adjust within, so nothing, +/- 6dB or +/- 10 dB. The number of times you can press volume up doesn't change and it certainly seems like it's still giving a +10dB range. So say you keep turning it up by 4dB every day, eventually it will set that as...

Sorry about this thread hijack but is there any limit on this, or could someone potentially fry their ears by turning the volume up and up and up every day? Just interested. I can imagine my mum turning up and up because her aid is blocked with ear wax, then I clean them for her and it blows her...

Make sure you consider the battery life on the phone. Bluetooth uses a lot of battery power, I bought the Smartlink to try to be able to use my mobile but having Bluetooth on all day on my phone meant it needed charging in the middle of the day, sometimes more than twice in 24 hours depending on...

Depends on how you look at it. If you are a true candidate for a hybrid then you are both HoH AND deaf. Deaf in the frequencies to be implanted, HoH in the frequencies to be aided. While SoundRecover is a great first step to allow people with steeply sloping losses to perceive high frequency...

I live in the UK so I have to go to a hospital for hearing aids. The parking for every other door is just normal open parking lot, drive in, park, walk away. The parking for two departments is served by a push-button intercom thing where you drive up to a barrier and talk into a post. One is the...

You got any problem with the delete or backspace key? Use the edit function to, ya know, maybe take them off?

Incidentally, I hear that AB are working on a hybrid implant like the Cochlear Hybrid and Medel EAS 2. That's potentially exciting news for people with a huge sloping loss, I think (personally) that the Cochlear one is a bit of a cop-out, maybe to get around first stage FDA trials by using...

I'm going to try not to get into a whole thing on psychology here, but this sounds like a justification of a gut feeling she cannot explain. Who could be bothered to get hearing aids and put them on in the morning but then couldn't be bothered to spend 10 seconds every 5 weeks dealing with...

No. For example in the Phonak hearing aids if you have two (premium) aids then you can use something like Duophone where the sound from the phone is played into BOTH hearing aids, not just one side. You can use audiozoom so that if someone is talking at your left side then some of the signal...

What I'm trying to find is any evidence that the Phonak partnership is leading to any binaural features between a Phonak hearing aid and a CI processor. I know many people who wear both, a Phonak Naida UP on one side and a CI on the other, and they are unable to work together on features like...

Sell it! If it's from the latest range for the manufacturer you get around 70% back, previous range 50% back, the range before drops to around 30%, but those are still numbers worth having. It will only continue to lose value.

I use the Rayovac pen style one where you click the magnet out to pick up the battery and then click it away again like a standard ball-point click pen and it drops the battery. I use it because I cannot pick up an object as small as a battery. If you can handle the batteries then it's probably...

You will need enough money to keep travelling back to Australia for updates, repairs, remaps, etc. You can't send away your head like you can send away a processor, so you have to return in person for follow-ups. Also beware you need the correct type of visa for that kind of travel, you must not...

Yeah, ear hooks do suck, but remember that you can plug into your FM instead. You can use the 3.5mm to 3.5mm lead they use to plug mp3 players into car stereos and plug it into the audio input on the FM transmitter, then you eliminate the problem of changing back and forth. Problem solved! Then...

They have been the best in the past compared to the other contemporary technology of NiCd, but now we have lithium it doesn't even compare. They don't go on forever, though. They do not have a memory effect, but they do have a limit on charge cycles. The faster you charge them the faster they...

It does mean a target launch date into post trials, however targets are extraordinarily rarely reached, and part of the approval process can only take place when a device exits clinical trials and becomes commercially available, so even after something is launched it's still hard to get. Then...

Why would they need to be neutral to work with a future hearing aid? Or do you just mean a colour that goes with lots of other colour choices? Neutral to me means beige and brown and all those sick colours you have landed with whether you like it or not. Remember that shapes change, though...

Hmmm, good luck with that, some of the modern ones are not as clear as the ones I had at school! But then I had a wired DAI body worn in school, which is always clearer than the ear level. If you had an ear level MLX before then the new MLXi is *much* better. If they are going to be integrated...

I use FM only for situations where there is significant background noise, like in a restaurant with the family, or even just doing the ironing and wanting to watch TV. The subtitles are truly appalling, I need as much sound as I can get to try to follow what's going on. I don't get a lot of...