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Free hearing tests are OK so long as you know what you are getting. Not sure about the US but in the UK they can only use the words "Hearing Test" if they are going to perform a full standard pure-tone testing with bone conduction testing. Other places offer "Hearing screening" and "pre-testing"...

They are never directly equivalent otherwise private dispensers would be able to get in an program them. They always make a slight adjustment to them to ensure the system won't recognise them. The Nathos range, for example, are almost exactly equivalent to Audeo V, Versata Micro, Versata M...

Probably RNID Product forum is the best place to ask, seems to have the quickest turnaround of people who know the NHS coding and features.

How about "You seem to be understanding me OK just now" in a quiet room with a closed door with good lighting and no distractions face to face about a metre apart "Why would you not understand me in a massive lecture hall with the lights off to show a slide show over a dodgy microphone system...

LOL I was having the opposite problem before, my hearing improved a bit as I got older (then started getting worse again) but mostly technology "improved" and alongside that smaller batteries. I went from 675 to 13 to 312 (which were a disaster cos they lasted about 2 days), then back to 13s...

Just wanted to add that any parents who have not asked their audi to set up a special program for listening to children it is definitely worth trying. I've always struggled the most to understand my little girl and I asked the audi to set up a kiddy-listening program on this trial pair and what...

I used to use Tcoil regularly until I discovered Direct Audio Input and since then my Tcoil has been retired. I still have one available on some of my hearing aids (I keep all my old ones!!) but tbh I rarely find them useful. There is an extra dimension for me, as I am a wheelchair user I am...

Yeah, there's probably some special way of asking you have to comply with. If I just ask my doctor to show me my medical records he doesn't have to, but if I write to the practice manager and tell him I want to see them under the Data Protection Act 1998 Subject Data Access Request regulations...

Not for me!! But interested if anyone has this kind of system and what advantages it (potentially) offers over things like frequency transposition hearing aids. Is it clearer than something like Soundrecover? I'm guessing it would be more appropriate for music. I've seen the ads for the Med-el...

Not personally, but my mum did. She was given only one hearing aid when she was much younger and had much better hearing. When she moved to a new area they had a different policy and she was given two, but could never really get used to having both ears aided as the one which had not been aided...

THIS is the particular post I found objectionable, not any of the ones about accidents or contact with water as per the guidelines from the manufacturer: This is a clear disregard for the warranty terms becuase it shows the person is aware it is not for this situation, the person uses it...

I guess it's a question of attitudes. We all pay more for things because they are misused by other people. Are these warranty replacements free for the company? No, the price is built into what other people have to pay for them. Everyone pays more because some people feel that warranties are a...

Yes, but those are ACCIDENTS you are talking about. Others are talking about deliberately going outside of the warranty terms by swimming in it when it specifically says don't swim in it and then saying that's what a warranty is for. It isn't. If they replace them out of goodwill then that's up...

Eep! Thanks. That's scary but useful information. Now I am going to be in a panic cos I will have a pair on loan and am already worried about dropping them and things. I had the battery lock put on my Siemens ones to stop me catapulting batteries at the wall, then I broke the battery lock off...

Stunned at so many people who think a warranty is meant to cover this stuff. Warranty is for using the product for the intended purpose and within the described limitations. If the limitations say don't swim in it then if you swim in it the warranty is void. They aren't supposed to clear up...

Officially it is termed MicroP I just contracted it to P cos most folks are familiar with the M, P, SP, UP designations, sorry when I said P I meant MicroP. Directly above the SP in the Solana/Ambra fitting chart. Interestingly, Phonak did this on the previous generation Naida but only on the...

Sorry you have lost me completely there! What are we talking about? Does what mean Petite? Which product?

I understand that, though the loss pattern is not that relevant with a Phonak because we are going to Soundrecover the HF off completely cos it's becoming clear with more detailed testing that my HF is not any actual use, but the question remains that if this is so, why would the Naida be the...

I don't know how many times over they immerse these things in water before saying they did it and everything was OK. Drop it in water once and find it still works and claim it water resistant? Did they get an international standard for it? If anyone does accidentally drop such things in water...

Hey, when I was at uni and I could hear that bit better I made a phone call home for a profoundly deaf girl across the hall cos she hadn't got her TTY set up yet. Her mom actually thanked me for agreeing to be her friend "what with her being like she is" - that kind of family "support" you don't...