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Hear Advisor Review of Resound Vivia

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It appears that hear advisor put Vivia through their process and it does not screen very well. I wonder if they activated the functionality? Just thought I’d share

Resound Vivia 9 60S microRIE Expert Review232

The Resound Vivia 9 microRIE (60S) is a premium Rx hearing aid that fits behind the ear and uses rechargeable batteries. It achieved a SoundGrade of B and sits in the bottom 35% of devices in the prescription category and in the top 40% of all...

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In a sea of marketing language thats full of delusions of grandeur, it’s refreshing to see third-party, unbiased testing. I admire the work that Hear Advisor is doing.

That said, I remain somewhat skeptical about using loudspeakers with recorded speech as a proxy for real-world conversations in noise. As a scientist myself, though, I recognize that real-world environments could introduce too many confounding variables into the tests.

I do not think they used the Edge+ mode when evaluating speech in noise for the Starkey Edge ’s so it’s very possible they didn’t use the enhanced mode for the Resound Vivia’s either.

In reply to @Bimodal_user

I mean I don’t think I’ve ever seen negative comments on a hearing aid from almost any big time reviewer. Every slightly negative comment is always hidden in layers of fluff :slight_smile: get the crap kicked out of them but all the new big names it’s pritty much fantastic amazing bla bla bla. Serously if you were to take starkey, Phonak, Resound and read about them on paper, you’d be really hard pressed as to know the differences between them. Oticon and Widex are a little bit different, Widex especially, but the other lot are all run by Terminator and wil reduce the sound of a passing croud of 5000 people so you can hear a whisper from someone 40 miles away… or something :slight_smile:
To be clear, I don’t really know what the alternative is, I’m just saying marketing has gone a bit mad :slight_smile:

In reply to @Bimodal_user

To be clear, what I’m saying is, when everything is positive, it all becomes a bit meaningless. as a society we do not enjoy giving people feedback which is not positive, whether it be constructive, negative etc etc. The problem with that mindset is that it doesn’t allow for growth. The hearing aid reviewers are often the people selling the products. The makers need them, and they need the makers. So you have this eternal loop of positivity from which no one really benefits. Ultimately you go to an audiologist and if you’re luck, the audi has enough experience with a particular brand, or several brands that they’ll do a good job fitting you. we talk about “step backwards” on this forum a lot, we’re just talking about things like battery life when the truth is, the job of these things is to get you to hear better and since that is subjective and driven by so many variables, then bring the marketing into that, it’s no wonder everyone is so confused :slight_smile:

In reply to @Dave_Morgan

They tested the hearing aid under a set of test conditions that may not be a good test of the hearing aid.

So their testing may be better then nothing, trying the hearing aids in one’s own ears is the best test.

I couldn’t agree more with @Xonic83 regarding vendor marketing and the fact that one should treat any review with caution. The reviewers might be independent, but they need to stay in the manufacturers’ good graces to get continued priority access.

I don’t know whether Vivias are good or bad, but I noticed that ReSound’s marketing proclaimed that “[their new chip] can perform 4.9 trillion operations per day”.

Vivia Marketing

Nobody measures computing performance in ‘operations per day’. Is that intentional obfuscation?

That’s like a car company saying their new car is so efficient that I can do 2000 miles per barrel. WTF?

However, I think it’s also true that hearing aid performance is extremely hard to measure and depends on a lot of factors.

The test of Resound Vivia explained.

For me, patient with only one hearing ear ( in the second, poorer ear). Sphere has many positives:

  1. Its works not only unilateral, but also could work with only one microphone (but Infinio Sphere has 2 mics, for better efficiency).

Resound Vivia AI is probably useless in my case, because it’s AI requires fitting for getting its full capability. I suppose that AI in Vivias are mainly for more accurate adjustments of the directionality - nothing new for me.

  1. It’s not true that Sphere has poor battery life (I am aware you told mainly about your Marvels). It’s only, when you have manual Spheric AI program for 7-8 hours. In automatic mode it works even 2-2.5 days.
    In the forum there is many users, who participate in business meetings, flying etc. and they don’t complain about battery life.

  2. Honestly, I can’t understand complaining about the Sphere size. Maybe I am biased because I saw small children who use Naida Sky hearing aids, which are definitely larger.
    Not to mention the sound processors, which are HUGE compared to the Naidas and particularly Sphere and are still used even by 1-2 year old babies.

I use the glasses with thin frame and can use even masks with no problem.

Okay, I understand, that there are small ears, etc., but still, I remind myself about mentioned babies, and I’m not convinced.

Do not missunderstand me, I’m a big fan of Phonak. I have m90 now and I’ve been satisfied with them until now when right battery only holds for about 6 hours. I think they probably is THE top brand. No, I’m just fascinated by this hype. All of a sudden it’s all about noice reduction. Vivia got really bad test results……in noice reduction. Check YouTube, there are only some old reviews out on Vivia and most of them are from bought audis. I’m really interested in PEOPLES reviews, people who have used them, streamed music from android and iOS with them

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