XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.design   
   From: HapilyRetired@fakeaddress.com   
      
   On 9/23/2023 5:22 PM, micky wrote:   
   >   
   >>> What brand did you get and about how much were they?   
   >>>   
   >>> Do you have to have them "tuned" by the audiologist?  Just once or every   
   >>> year or something?   
   >>>   
   >> I have a set of ReSound Linx Quatro hearing aids that were recommended   
   >> by my audiologist at Walter Reed.  I got them about 4 years ago.  Yes,   
   >> they were custom tuned.  Initially set to compensate for my audiogram   
   >> and then tweaked by my subjective comments.  They retailed at that time   
   >> for about $5K so I'm told.  Being retired military, I qualify for the   
   >> DoD's hearing aids at cost program.  My total cost out of pocket was   
   >> about $850.  The audiologist recommended an annual checkup or anytime   
   >> sooner if a problem develops.   
   >>   
   >> Reading some of your other comments in this thread, it seems that you   
   >> don't have a complaint of muffled sound when listening to other radios.   
   >> If that's the case, and the other radios have a similar audio frequency   
   >> response, your problem may not be your hearing.  Perhaps it is the   
   >> radio.  Good luck!   
   >   
   > I think it's the radio too, but I do have an interest in hearing aids. I   
   > hear about 80% of the people I meet fine,  but some talk so low I can't.   
   > And at meetings, but those are not as common anymore.  At home with zoom   
   > I can just turn up the volume.  And at movies.   
   >   
   > I have a $150 "hearing amplifer" and it works well at my current level   
   > of hearing. Although it has a good design, they seem to have used a   
   > cheap on/off switch and sometimes when I turn it off it stays on and   
   > vice versa.  It's just a slide switch, but embedded in hard rubber so I   
   > can't replace it. Maybe I'm getting more used to it, although... I can   
   > understand the voice when it says "Power off" or "Power on" but after   
   > she says On she says something else and I can't come close to   
   > understanding.  (In this casee, it is not about my hearing, but about   
   > the device.)   
   >   
   > I like the onse with a yoke, so when they fall out of my ears as they   
   > often do, I don't lose them.   None of the high quality hearing aids   
   > like yours or the Otikon that Clare mentinoed come in yoke form, do   
   > they?   
   I don't know.  Mine have never fallen out.   
      
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