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If your hearing loss is only above 1000hz, 250-750hz are normal, you are not a candidate for a CI. When they tested you, did they have you repeat words like; an, your, bin, way, chest. ect ect ? How many of those did you get right in each ear?

Resound aids must be calibrated. When you first got them did he run the calibrator? To you the calibrator sounds like a bunch of pure tones. Are the aids whistling like when you hold your hand up to them or do you just hear a tone? Some feedback cancelation systems can give you false...

All financial woes were forseen in the Clinton administration, no body (Republican or Democrat) did anything about it. Clinton could have had Bin Laden. Oil last time I checked is at $68 a barrel, that compared to +$150 a few months back. The Iraq war is debatable. Pinning everything on Bush...

The ML9i comes in just mostly the beige and brown tones, Black, Silver, and the Gray's (light and graphite). It doesn't come in blue or pink or transparent.

The more they have to transpose, the stranger it can sound. It's hard for me with normal hearing to tell you what it should sound like with a given hearing loss. I will say this though, the feedback from a transpositional aid sounds like crickets as opposed to a whistle.

Yes I have fit them. My feeling on them is similar to that of a CROS or BiCros aid. If I fit you as a kid with them, you won't ask for anything else. Mainly because your brain doesn't know anything but the crunched (transposed) signal. Fit them on someone older and who's never worn that type...

No, I was speaking of hearing aids in general. The terms superpower and ultrapower in my mind are interchangeable. So on manufacturers UP is another's SP.

Correct, only the super-power and ultra-power aid require 675's, which isn't the vast majority of hearing aid users. In the 80's to early 90's most BTE's used 675's, now the BTE's have shrunk and most use size 13.

To the best of my knowledge no. The Naida is really a specialty aid that targets a specific group. Most manufacturers don't fight for small groups and tend to let one company have the answer for those patients (and they're happy to do so). AVR Sonovation is the company I'd look at if I were...

:D Make sure your ability to trade up is through Phonak, not that in particular audiologist that offered that to you. The exelia is nice and would suit you well cause your young and active, but it is expensive.

There are cheaper aids out there than what he has. Most audiologists won't charge him more than $80 to sit down for an hour and talk about his options (I don't charge anything). He needs to bring a copy of his audiogram though. If all else fails and he can't find something to suit his needs...

The two new aids offered are to fill in the product line. Meaning Exelia is still the top dog, Versata is there mid-level hearing aid, and the Cartena is the entry level hearing aid. They finish off the complete move to the new chip (CORE), prior you had the Savia, Eleva, Extra on the old chip...

I would wait 2 weeks. Phonak is in the process of launching 2 new aids. :D

What antibiotic are you taking and are you taking it orally or topically? Diuretics most typically cause ringing in the ears (tinnitus), but I've never seen someone with hearing loss as a result of a diuretic and that's after someone was given a mass dose of Lasix in the ER for congestive heart...

You and everyone else who's worn "Normal" hearing aids and tried to convert to a transpositional aid. It is a totally different way of processing sound and takes a good bit of time getting used to it (some never do). It's what I call a specialty aid that has a 50/50 chance of working...

You will always have difficulty in noisy places, that's the nature of the beast with hearing loss. Will the higher end hearing aids help more in noise, yes. But it won't eliminate it all and you will still have SOME difficulty. If your maxing out the Una then talk to your audiologist about...

55dB and you may possibly need the 65db with a mold if the 55dB isn't strong enough without feedback.

Power, that's the only main difference.

Electrophysiological testing (ABR, ASSR, MLR, LLR, P300, ECOG, VEMP, VEP) and balance testing (ENG, VNG, posturograghy, rotary chair, ect), and auditory processing to name a few. Perform the test, interpret the results, recommend a course of treatment, and in some cases provide the treatment...

Depends on you and what your inner ear does with the sound. Some patients ask me to adjust an aid 12 ways towards the middle, some as for only a slight bump in loudness of speech. The Pure 500 give me a greater opportunity to adjust it to your liking than say the Cielo 2.