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I'm not sure this is the best fit with the hearing aid section, if you know of non-wearers who you think could be helpful maybe you could funnel them into this section for a bit. :lol: If people have broadly or totally given up on hearing aids, why and what did you do next? Did you have any...

The difference between SP and UP depends on frequencies. The maximum output of the Naida UP is 144 compared to 141 on the SP, Max gain of the UP is 85 compared to 80 on the SP. BUT, if you look into it in more detail sometimes the sustained capability of the SP exceeds that of the UP just...

This does happen for sure, I was often given moderate power aids during the analogue era because the difference between my best and worst hearing frequencies was 40dB so they aided for the best hearing not the worst. Sometimes, unbelievably, this still happens. Don't know if it's inexperienced...

Those are so cool, gives me some inspiration for mine. I still can't decide on colour choices. I am fighting my hospital on the colour point at the moment, not so much because I want a nicer colour (even though I do) but that they issue beige hearing aids to people of every ethnic background...

They can conduct lightning into your brain during a thunder storm. Presume that is a myth, in as much as pretty well anything can conduct lightning if you are unlucky. I've heard that static can undo the map in some (not sure if current processors are still affected) but people take it too far...

In the clinical world there is rarely such a thing as "will happen" and "won't happen". It could happen. It's all a question of timing, if someone with normal hearing put on mild-moderate aids for 12 weeks they might do damage. If they put on a pair of UP aids for even 30 seconds in a loud...

For continuous exposure (hours at a time) the danger level kicks in at 85dB for someone with normal hearing. That's not even restricted to UP hearing aids, most of your mild to moderate aids are going to output at that kind of volume cos otherwise you don't get any useful gain. The first bits of...

Yes.... does anyone HAVE one, and what advantage does it offer over frequency transposition? I know that CI sound is not necessarily very natural, so what is the advantage of an unnatural implanted sound over an unnatural transposed sound? I've seen more articles about them being in trial in...

Unfortunately they aren't, it's the colours of the ML13i that are listed, not the AS13 audioshoe. They always do that. :mad:

Hey thanks for that, sounds like the system has actually just gone live, but the FAQ doesn't tell you a lot about it, and their Facebook page shows that current costs are £1 a minute (!!!) because they are yet to get any funding to help defray the costs. I don't entirely understand how it works...

I believe that Starkey's labs make earmoulds with variable vent plugs so you only need get one set of impressions and one earmould made and then the audi fiddles around with different sized plugs. They will make them for other brands, you don't need to have Starkey hearing aids, they just happen...

I am trying to decide which colour to go for as I'm pretty sure I will go ahead with Phonak Solanas if I can find a mould which doesn't make my ears bleed. Stoopid ears! This picture is of the demo colour and I need to choose which one I will go with. I tried the MicroP and the SP and I do seem...

To chat with your friends! If you and/or your friends are non-signers, if you want to be a swimming instructor, learn something swiming related like learn to surf, waterski, things where being able to hear instructions would be an advantage. I'd particularly love to be able to hear the alarm...

You may be able to put that through as self-employed, depends if you sell enough stuff year-round. CI is tricky to know because you have to invest in the sugery and everything to know if it's going to work, but hearing aids if you want to try them then they are pretty easy to go and try, and...

Too true! Wearing a hearing aid means you can now magically hear - how many times we hear "But isn't that what a hearing aid is for?" and my mum hears "Why don't you wear your hearing aids?" - because she still can't hear! You're still going to have to make an effort in communication with us...

I've been asking around about this format but there is nobody seems to remember it. I think they existed for about a year as an interim between fully BW and fully BTE. The (massive!) BTE part did go over your ear but then there was a long string down from it and a thing you wore around your neck...

Denmark is practically local, thanks. :ty:

I've a drawerful of old hearing aids which I keep for backup but in real terms I don't use them. I figure they could do some good to someone somewhere instead of being in my drawer but don't know who I can give them to. Some are very old so unlikely to be wanted by anyone in the UK, but...

VCO is not the same as Captel, or at least not the same as the version explained to me. In our relay version you cannot listen to the person's voice as well as getting captions, it's either or. If you have a certain amount of residual hearing it's very comforting to hear your mum's actual voice...

And an address in the United States. We don't have it.