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I am a bi-Kanso 2 coming from a nucleus 6. I am also a Rotarian. At the meetings in a noisy room, my hearing is terrible. I cannot hear the guy sitting next to me. One to one, outside or listening to a guest speaker when the room is quiet, its great - no problem- but background noise ruins it. A friend with Hearing aids who is renowned for being hard of hearing- not even being able to understand a guest speaker, can hear across the table at a meeting.
Forward focus doesn’t help and removing the scan setting makes everything worse.
I feel I have not set the adjustments in Nucleus Smart App
Should I be playing with sensitivity settings?

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Welcome to the forum Maz066.
Lowering the sensitivity does cut down on background noise to a degree. I have mine set on 9 my doesn’t recommend it. I find it works for me though.

As far as meetings go, if you have an iPhone you could try “live listen” this is only good for a maximum of 8 people though, it works like a microphone. Other than that you could use a mini mic to help you in larger meetings.
Good luck.

That’s a tuff situation. Probably high ceilings and hard surfaces everywhere. Sound is probably bouncing off all these surfaces. It’s overwhelming.

I too am bilateral with K2’s. In that situation I have had pretty good luck using the sensitivity and forward focus. For me the sensitivity adjustment is like drawing a circle around me. All sound outside of that circle is turned off. So if the noise that’s messing up your hearing is outside of your circle it can be removed with the sensitivity setting. This setting can adjust how big or small that circle is.

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MDB yes it’s exactly the same product. Cochlear buy Resound phone clip, multi mic and TV streamer. Then just rebrand them and hike up the price. I got mine multi mic from Costco. They order them in for you at a reasonable price not like Cochlear.

Currently the multi mic 2 isn’t compatible with K2 or N8. I’ve just purchased one and had to return it for the multi mic. Cochlear are dragging their heels on firmware updates. The same as the latest Resound aids Vivia and ?Nexia just waiting for firmware updates. As I just had a firmware update 2 months ago I’m not expecting another for quiet some time.

@Bimodal_user Funny, funny,:laughing: LE and I don’t get along! I’m an absolutely IT dummy, I’m too old to worry about LE ! that being so I have no clue if it’s activated. I have my annual mapping August 12th I will ask then.

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@Deaf_piper said:

Funny, funny,:laughing:

I was deliberately naive from the start of my question. :laughing: This is a poking to the Cochlear (and Phonak), to get that thing done (activate at least the feature and maybe ).

@Michael_Phonak, sorry about mentioning you, but maybe you have the possibility to inform your HQ superiors that this feature is much expected.

@Deaf_piper said:

I have my annual mapping August 12th I will ask then

Oh, perhaps you can ask about printing with your results from RemoteCheck, like examination?

From my experience with meetings, a mini-mic works pretty well. It’s also super helpful to be positioned to see the speaker clearly. Somehow, multi-sensory listening makes me feel like I’m understanding better. In that same idea, nothing beats captions for giving a sense of really following the presentation.
Especially since there are at least 2 of you Rotarians with hearing loss, maybe the club can spring for someone to do live captions. You could ask that the caption writer sit between the 2 of you and show the captions on a laptop screen.
Are you seated at typical round banquet tables? If so, and the club is ok with paying, a captions writer can conquer the table conversation nightmare. If nothing else, the captions would show different speakers at the table, informally encourage people to speak one at a time, and ignore the buzz from different tables.
But regardless, a mini-mic helps quite a lot with front-of-the-room speakers.

The Minimike is only partially useful. It is supposed to be directional but I find it only works well if it is pinned to the speaker (like my wife!). I have been known to pass it round the table to whoever is speaking but this tends to kill conversation.
I have read that you lie to mike flat and it picks up whoever is speaking but the background noise from other tables is still high.
Any clues on the better use of the Minimike?

Agree, it’s partial. I mostly used it attached to the speakers lapel. Well, at the very beginning I tried using it in a restaurant—arghh! Then abandoned it for several years.

Finally tried it in a sort of auditorium style, next to a single speakers voice (lapel). In this mode, it seems to work well. Also works well as a computer accessory , for meetings, video, music, etc

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