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Audiologist's testing benches are measured to a certain standard decibels. Unless you have a decibel meter and a lot of expertise there's no way this is going to be accurate.

I only use T-Mics unless I'm in AquaMic mode, so meh. I don't know why anyone would use anything but the T-Comm unless they're going waterproof... I had a friend in the Naida trials and she wasn't a fan of optima, so your mileage may vary.

I would jump at having Vanderbilt as my CI clinic actually, they came out with a new CT-scan based method of CI mapping this year which is supposed to improve fidelity quite a bit. I have a CI and it has really improved the quality of my life! I don't want to subject you to anything that...

If Cochlear won't sell you the parts necessary for your current processor anymore, that is a pretty good reason for medicare to cover a new processor.

That depends on many factors. How long you've been without hearing, how much auditory memory you have, were you born with severe/profound deafness, brain plasticity, age, et cetera. Took two days for the beeping to turn into recognizable sounds for me and two weeks to understand speech...

Glitter is that important, huh? I hope you don't end up dipping any CI processors in glitter down the road. :P

Well the Neptune is totally waterproof in the waterproof configuration. No other CI processor is designed for complete immersion for long periods of time. Literally you are able to just jump in a lake with it.

Nope. I originally thought they would as well, but Naida CIs can only pair to other Naida CIs, so the bilateral features aren't going to work with the combination, sadly. There's really nothing hardware-wise that prevents them from linking the two. Hopefully they will fix it in the future so...

What's so different? The mapping options are the same, other than fancy features. I wouldn't think they would alter the baseline sound much at all.

HAs will last for a decade or more if you take care of them. I have some Phonak aids from the 1980s that still work. I also still have a 9.5 year old Widex that is still functioning, though it has been repaired several times. I upgraded from it just this year to a Phonak Q90 because I have...

This whole thread is a giant troll thread. Original poster asks a question and presents their own answer, then jumps on someone who disagrees. A lot of users of this forum just like to get their jollies by coming into this section of alldeaf and posting anti-CI FUD. It's pretty obvious...

I am not familiar with the N5 or Cochlear processors, but if it can take DAI with a standard audio cable you could probably hook up some microphones with a Y cable yourself. Whether you'd want to deal with all the cables that would result in is another matter!

Finally! :D

This is a function of the IDR (input dynamic range). Any sounds louder than the maximum limit are compressed to the maximum. AB implants have a maximum IDR of 80 dB, though certain tricks can raise it to the mid 90s. It centers at about 45-50dB so really you'll never perceive sounds being...

I just got a canal lock-style mold... I am really happy with it. I have severe-profound loss in one ear and I don't know why it's supposedly unsuitable for higher losses, the mold seals just as well as my regular earmolds ever have. Better, actually, I have never had a mold fit as well as this...

I think he's just protesting because more power isn't really the thing we are talking about, it's more clarity. We can use analogies all day and the problem is mostly that yours isn't wrong, it's just a little clumsy for the situation. It's more like needing a certain power tool in your...

It sounds like your stim levels are too high, to me, if you can't handle being in a noisy situation for several hours. Maybe you should have a 'low volume' setting for noisy places? I wear my CI almost every minute I'm awake, no matter how noisy or loud the environment is. In very noisy...

Bumping for trolling purposes? It's abundantly clear most of the negative comments here are from users who are biased against CIs.

I wasn't getting much out of my HA (one ear was dead, so no point in wearing a HA in that ear) anymore, so I looked into CIs and decided to go for it. No one ever recommended it to me as a solution. That's kind of sad, because it's really improved the quality of my life. I can communicate so...

That isn't recruitment. That is the AGC being in a quiet setting and suddenly loud noise. You can have similar symptoms to recruitment but it isn't recruitment. Recruitment is the entrainment of hair cells where the neural response is nonlinear. It's all semantics. The Naida CI has sound relax...