On 02/05/2018 15:05, Brian Gaff wrote:

The NHS ones are pretty basic and you need to change the batteries very
often according to friends of mine. If you want proper digitally tailored
ones than the price is almost anything you can think of. Like you i don't

That is only true if they don't switch them off at night and leave them
on the bedside table screaming loudly at each other. If the microphone
can hear the output to the ear they howl like crazy. The NHS units are
not at all bad these days with reasonable digital designs - their main
weakness is physical size when compared to the private in ear ones.

They are tailored to individual frequency response by octave and gain.

know why, as the tech is not new and in my view its another thing like
glasses frames disability aids etc, that cost twice as much plus what you
can get away with, using the small market excuse for the profit made.

Brian

The latest digital NHS kit is certainly worth a try before splashing out
on a private hearing aid. They have improved immeasruably over the past
decade from "barely useful" to really rather good. The improvements when
they moved to full digital processing were truly remarkable.

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Regards,
Martin Brown