Well, thought I would revive this thread as I recently became a hearing aid patient. I had a hearing test conducted at the local Veterans Affairs office and they said after the procedure, well, you qualify for hearing ads….huhhhnnn?
I knew I had some loss from years ago, military training, deployments, artillery, gun fire, and loud as heck, being civil, jam session in the barracks and at home playing concert level rock music. Yeah, the audiologist also said it was my rigjt ear more so as when I shoot rifles, machine guns, my left side is farther away from the barrel and my right side is closer. So much for those 3M hearings protectors, those yellow squishy ones that now are known to not work at all. I think there is a class action against 3M now. Long story short, VA approved my hearing aids after the tests.
I went back to VA last week to get fitted and test the settings they had programmed into the hearing aids based on my specific hearing loss. There is loss on both sides, but right side is more.
The first thing the audiologist did was place them on my ears and insert the little tubes with what looks like a dome with a tiny speaker. She ran the initial fitting tests and did balance, tone, and speech clarity checks. While she was doing the tests, I took note that the hearing aids were Oticon Intent. I asked the audiologist about those hearing aids and she said VA has a contract with Oticon because the hearing aids have such a vast range which is beneficial for the military population that the VA serves.
The first thing I noticed that I could hear my voice in a different way. She said that was always what people heard mostly at first. Your own voice, lol. After that, conversation was just more crisp and balanced. I could hear more minute noises such as when the audiologist shuffled papers. After all the tests were done, she helped me download the Oticon app and showed me the settings in the app and user preferences, and she also said that these are the latest Oticon Intent with AI like sensors, increased sensitivity to the environment but with algorithms that sense how much the environment is affecting hearing and with this tech, makes the sound more natural for all environments. I asked about music, she said especially with music since it is so complex. These newer Oticon Intent hearing aids have an increased frequency range as too from 80-10000hz.
Of course after the long drive home and getting used to having things on and in my ear, what does and audiophile do? I warmed up the system and waited a little bit to warm it up. I was not sure what to expect with the first note. Oh man, I felt like my system played really well before, but with the hearing aids, I could hear more intimate and intricate details…more subtle things. Where before, I had to to turn it up to hear these details, now, I could play at a lower volume. All the notes were there and bass and cymbals were crystal clear. Spatial separation was just like before. So clarity is there without loss or musical experience; however, I did note that in some music the voices seems to be a little recessed until I turned it up. The audiologist did state that they did not want to adjust frequencies where I had good hearing and mentioned that I ever need to change a certain frequency range, I could use the burial in EQ. Guess want, I used the built in EQ and raised by 2Db the mids and the vocals I though were recessed were back. So, I guess it is possible that my particular hearing loss, I was used to playing the stereo so loud to hear the cymbals and finer sound that I was just overlooking vocals to get to that point. Not a hearing aid issue but a personal issue as one gets used to the real listening environment. Overall, the listening experience was greater, with far more information and subtle information with awesome spatial resolution. I think these hearing aide by Oticon are home run. These are my first ever hearing aids so can’t compare but I and more than enamored and happy with these. They don’t take away or detract from my listening pleasure and I can still play music as loud as I want without db limiting or whistling or whatever issues people may experience with hearing aids. The fact that they built in a smart neural processor that enables the listening environment to shine through, or be heard through by the user, is amazing. I am excited to have the ability to hear music in greater detail than before. It’s a whole new listening experience. I will be taking out records to just hear the music with these finer details in mind. The difference is not like night and day, but seems to me a more harmonious and increasing sense of finer details. As others stated, each person must obtain hearing aids which suit their particular needs. I think for my first set of hearing aids, I found my new way of listening.
Deep Neural Network 2.0 processing
Sirius is a brand-new platform with a chipset that’s purpose-built for hearing aids, complete with our embedded, second-generation DNN for advanced preservation of the original sound, better noise suppression, and more clarity.2
4D Sensor technology
Oticon Intent’s embedded motion sensor detects head and body movements while several acoustic sensors detect sound level, signal-to-noise ratio, and conversation activity. These enable Oticon Intent to combine the different inputs necessary to run the 4D Sensor technology paradigm.
Expanded frequency bandwidth
Sirius brings even lower hearing aid frequencies, with a bandwidth from 80 Hz to 10,000 Hz giving a fuller sound scene for a richer representation of the environment and a better experience when listening to music.
New intelligent miniFIT Detect speaker unit
Sirius supports the new self-calibrating miniFit Detect speaker units in Oticon Intent, which give increased convenience and assurance that your patients will experience precise gain every day while they’re out in the real world.
Future-proof Bluetooth® LE Audio
In Oticon Intent, Sirius supports the connectivity technology of the future: Bluetooth LE Audio, incorporating a standard audio codec for streaming data and sound to and from a variety of devices with greater power efficiency.
Cheers,
I knew I had some loss from years ago, military training, deployments, artillery, gun fire, and loud as heck, being civil, jam session in the barracks and at home playing concert level rock music. Yeah, the audiologist also said it was my rigjt ear more so as when I shoot rifles, machine guns, my left side is farther away from the barrel and my right side is closer. So much for those 3M hearings protectors, those yellow squishy ones that now are known to not work at all. I think there is a class action against 3M now. Long story short, VA approved my hearing aids after the tests.
I went back to VA last week to get fitted and test the settings they had programmed into the hearing aids based on my specific hearing loss. There is loss on both sides, but right side is more.
The first thing the audiologist did was place them on my ears and insert the little tubes with what looks like a dome with a tiny speaker. She ran the initial fitting tests and did balance, tone, and speech clarity checks. While she was doing the tests, I took note that the hearing aids were Oticon Intent. I asked the audiologist about those hearing aids and she said VA has a contract with Oticon because the hearing aids have such a vast range which is beneficial for the military population that the VA serves.
The first thing I noticed that I could hear my voice in a different way. She said that was always what people heard mostly at first. Your own voice, lol. After that, conversation was just more crisp and balanced. I could hear more minute noises such as when the audiologist shuffled papers. After all the tests were done, she helped me download the Oticon app and showed me the settings in the app and user preferences, and she also said that these are the latest Oticon Intent with AI like sensors, increased sensitivity to the environment but with algorithms that sense how much the environment is affecting hearing and with this tech, makes the sound more natural for all environments. I asked about music, she said especially with music since it is so complex. These newer Oticon Intent hearing aids have an increased frequency range as too from 80-10000hz.
Of course after the long drive home and getting used to having things on and in my ear, what does and audiophile do? I warmed up the system and waited a little bit to warm it up. I was not sure what to expect with the first note. Oh man, I felt like my system played really well before, but with the hearing aids, I could hear more intimate and intricate details…more subtle things. Where before, I had to to turn it up to hear these details, now, I could play at a lower volume. All the notes were there and bass and cymbals were crystal clear. Spatial separation was just like before. So clarity is there without loss or musical experience; however, I did note that in some music the voices seems to be a little recessed until I turned it up. The audiologist did state that they did not want to adjust frequencies where I had good hearing and mentioned that I ever need to change a certain frequency range, I could use the burial in EQ. Guess want, I used the built in EQ and raised by 2Db the mids and the vocals I though were recessed were back. So, I guess it is possible that my particular hearing loss, I was used to playing the stereo so loud to hear the cymbals and finer sound that I was just overlooking vocals to get to that point. Not a hearing aid issue but a personal issue as one gets used to the real listening environment. Overall, the listening experience was greater, with far more information and subtle information with awesome spatial resolution. I think these hearing aide by Oticon are home run. These are my first ever hearing aids so can’t compare but I and more than enamored and happy with these. They don’t take away or detract from my listening pleasure and I can still play music as loud as I want without db limiting or whistling or whatever issues people may experience with hearing aids. The fact that they built in a smart neural processor that enables the listening environment to shine through, or be heard through by the user, is amazing. I am excited to have the ability to hear music in greater detail than before. It’s a whole new listening experience. I will be taking out records to just hear the music with these finer details in mind. The difference is not like night and day, but seems to me a more harmonious and increasing sense of finer details. As others stated, each person must obtain hearing aids which suit their particular needs. I think for my first set of hearing aids, I found my new way of listening.
A purpose-built processing platform
With the Sirius chipset, hearing aid users get our most powerful and intelligent platform ever. Purpose-built for hearing aids, Sirius features our embedded, always-on, next-generation DNN 2.0. Its high processing capacity powers the groundbreaking technologies in Oticon Intent and Oticon Own SI(TM), and its future-ready specifications ensure Oticon Intent hearing aids can be wirelessly updated with our latest improvements.Deep Neural Network 2.0 processing
Sirius is a brand-new platform with a chipset that’s purpose-built for hearing aids, complete with our embedded, second-generation DNN for advanced preservation of the original sound, better noise suppression, and more clarity.2
4D Sensor technology
Oticon Intent’s embedded motion sensor detects head and body movements while several acoustic sensors detect sound level, signal-to-noise ratio, and conversation activity. These enable Oticon Intent to combine the different inputs necessary to run the 4D Sensor technology paradigm.
Expanded frequency bandwidth
Sirius brings even lower hearing aid frequencies, with a bandwidth from 80 Hz to 10,000 Hz giving a fuller sound scene for a richer representation of the environment and a better experience when listening to music.
New intelligent miniFIT Detect speaker unit
Sirius supports the new self-calibrating miniFit Detect speaker units in Oticon Intent, which give increased convenience and assurance that your patients will experience precise gain every day while they’re out in the real world.
Future-proof Bluetooth® LE Audio
In Oticon Intent, Sirius supports the connectivity technology of the future: Bluetooth LE Audio, incorporating a standard audio codec for streaming data and sound to and from a variety of devices with greater power efficiency.
Cheers,
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