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For those who own a Phonak Sphere, how does the Sphere mode perform in environments with a heavy echo?
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Hi,
For those who own a Phonak Sphere, how does the Sphere mode perform in environments with a heavy echo?
Thanks for your feedback!
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Are you asking about a conversation in a crowd, in a heavy echo room? Or hearing a speaker address a group in this environment? Conversation among a few is great if you can occlude the noise (molds or more occluding domes). The speaker addressing the crowd? Maybe a little better than my paradise were?
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The point is that sphere isn’t a magic bullet for all situations. It isn’t for hearing that guy on a stage 60 feet away in a long-echo hall. (Think cement wall school gymnasium.) It is for a smallish group of people talking in any noisy environment. In the big crowd, straining to hear the speaker situation, sphere will help you hear the couple behind you whispering better than you hear the speaker on the stage…
I asked for a speech-in-noise program (non-sphere) specifically to force this mode when the noise is high enough to drive to spherical mode in autosense, but that isn’t what you need then.
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For what I know, directional mics are main solution for the echo, possibly remote mic if applicable.
As @WhiteHat mentioned, mics are mainly for near field communication (no pun intended) which is in the radius of about 1.5 metres (5 ft).
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