On Thursday, July 4, 2019 at 8:59:34 AM UTC+1, Martin Brown wrote:
On 03/07/2019 20:08, Richard wrote:
On 03/07/2019 15:55, wrote:
Have they improved much over the past few yeasr.
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They can recognise your favourite restaurant
Modern digital hearing aids are self-learning. That means they get to
know your preferred settings for places you go to and adjust
automatically.

My NHS Siemens aid is modern but doesn't do that.


They know when youre having a one-to-one conversation
Our hearing aids dont just turn up the volume, they identify the
sounds you want to hear and filter out the ones you dont. So even in
a noisy room, you can hear the person youre talking to clearly above
the background chatter.

Nor that.

I suspect they may have some better microphone directionality towards
the way you are facing than the older models.

You have to take marketing claims with a good pinch of salt.


They can help you watch TV
Special technology can send the sound from your TV or stereo direct to
your hearing aids. So you can easily hear your favourite programmes or
listen to music without disturbing others.

Or that.

It must surely have a T-loop setting - although they have become a bit
redundant now that the processing of speech is so good. You probably
have to press a fiddly little button somewhere to use that mode.


So clever, they can answer your phone for you
With a discreet remote control in your pocket or handbag, you can
answer your mobile phone at the click of a button. Youll enjoy clear
conversations as you listen to the call through your hearing aids.

No.

The discrete remote in your pocket is the bit that NHS kit is missing.
I don't know if any NHS ones support bluetooth yet. My fathers didn't.

They even listen to each other
At Specsavers we give you two hearing aids for the price of one,
programmed to work together. So when the settings in one hearing aid
change, the other responds to give you perfectly balanced, all-round
hearing.

I only have one, but I'm betting if I had two they wouldn't do that.

They will give you a pair if your weaker ear deteriorates.

Is all if this true or is it marketing hype?

Probably true to an extent for a price.

Considering the cost of mine, I'd say that I really couldn't be more
satisfied.

And ISTR you get free batteries on the NHS (maybe only for pensioners).

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Regards,
Martin Brown

Thanks to all for the replies. Specsavers have a 90 day money back guarantee so that might be the way to assess the situation