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Hi everyone, some of you know that i started my hearing loss correction about 6 weeks ago and i’m a diy’er. I just go to audiologist now and then just to solve “problems” i can’t by myself.

I started with a pair of SIGNIA ACTIVE PRO IX and they are really good for my loss and my needs (bluetooth is awsome for calling, music and tv…WOW), and now i bought a pair of Silk 7IX (cic) to wear in some situation like weddings, work, cerimony because they are more stealth. Once at a wedding people mistook me for a security guard because i was wearing my active pro ix :sweat_smile: .

CONNEXXAIR for my signia silk is coming in two-three days.

The (cic) i bought online on ebay, arrived pre programmed with mu by the seller with a vented sleeve configuration so I’ve been able to try them for some time, they are great but i have a question on how to wear them.

when i put my into the era canal I push them all the way down, they are pratically invisible, very impressive, but i feel like there’s something wrong because everything sounds closed, dull, as if I had cotton in my ears. If I pull them out a little everithing sounds normal but just because the HA are a little out from the canal and i think that sounds are passing through the ventilation holes of the sleeves. The HAs are still well fixed in the ear but more visible than before. Is it normal? I thought CIC had to be inserted all the way in, but if i do i can’t wear almost nothing. Maybe i have to try a close/power fit program to benefit the CIC?

let me know your knowlegde, cheers.

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Are you using the same sleeves on both (Active X and Silk)?

It sounds like an occlusion effect, but since the Active IX and the Silk use the same type of domes, I’m not sure why you experience occlusion with the Silk but not with the Active IX. Going with the power fit will give you more occlusion (if that is what is happening).

@tenkan has more experience with the Silks, he may be able to help more.

There is also this setting in Connexx that may help:

Screenshot 2025-09-29 142211

My dear marco and my dear friends,

finally connexxair is arrived and now I can do everything I want with my (nohalink wireless for the active IX pro and connexxair for the silks).

So, having some experience with my active Ix pro i started playing with the silks, as i wrote in the OP i had the sensation of closed ear and every sounds were like unamplified but not the higher frequencies, if I let the cics fit a bit out of the canal so the air could pass through the venting holes of the sleeves the situation changed a bit, the HA were safely in place but they were more visible than a deep fit.

I tried this trick, fitted my cics really inside my ears, safely, no pain, and programmed as a power fit…night and day my friend, finally the silks work properly, the sleeves are always the vented one but i think the HA are completely closing the ear canal…no feedback but a little, very little occlusion.

I have a question, why they sell open, tulip, vented sleeves for this HA if the SILK (cic obviously) have to occlude the canal to work like they have to. i can understand that custom mold cic could have vent but this kind of HA couldn’t…if you want the vent to work you must have to fit the cic a bit off of your canal.

sorry for my english i hope you can understand what i said…hear you

I’ve got Signia, but not silk. The domes I use are pictured below.
At first I had the occluded effect, plus moving my jaw made a popping sound. The audiologist simply had me wear the domes pushed less deep into the ear.

I can still hear sounds as well as when I used to shove them in and there is no occlusion feeling & no popping sound.

Hope This Helps!

Paul

Dome

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In reply to @Dr_Dr_please

Some people, like me, have good low to mid-frequency hearing, which makes us more sensitive to the occlusion effect. When I had my Active Pro, I preferred using tulips because the closed option didn’t sound good to me. Ultimately, different types of hearing loss may require different solutions.

I haven’t used the Silks; what I wrote is based on my experience with the Active Pro.

In reply to @PJB12

@PJB12 said:

The audiologist simply had me wear the domes pushed less deep into the ear.

ok you exactly know what I mean, the fact is that i don’t understand why I have to push less deep the cic to have benefit of the venting hole, they are made to be invisible…my sleeves are the same as the image you posted. fortunately (for me) i can wear the cic deep into my ear with a bearable occlusion and no popping sound. thank you for your reply.

@OcramSagev said:

Some people, like me, have good low to mid-frequency hearing, which makes us more sensitive to the occlusion effect.

excellent observation, thanks.
@OcramSagev said:

When I had my Active Pro, I preferred using tulips because the closed option didn’t sound good to me.

As you know the Active Pro IX are so you can’t push them as deep as cic, with the Active pro i wear vented sleeves and i can feel the benefits of ventilation, with the silk i have to push them less deep and i don’t want to because they are more visible, trust me with a deep fit my silk 7IX C&G are litterally invisibile and i’m noticing that with a closed/power setting the , speech in noise and the thousand features they have work millions of time better.

Cheers.

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hi there, after a testing period i’m here again to let you know what i’m experiencing. I started with open sleeves, then vented for my signia silk 7 IX but noticed that I have to push the less deep into the ear to benefit of the venting and i don’t want to because this reduce the invisibility of the . So tried the closed and the power sleeve pushed deep in the canal. doing this I have a bit of occlusion and sometime I can feel my heart beat in the left ear, not the sound but the pressure. Furthermore with the closed and the power i have the feeling of isolation from the entire world. Every sounds are very attenuate and people voices sounds a bit metallic. I can hear people speaking but the ambient sounds are like not amplified…I don’t know how to explain the sansation but with the open and the vented the earing is like having nothing in my ears with some frequencies amplified, with the closed and the power is like having earplugs that amplify just voices and some high frequencies with a sensation of metallic listening. With the closed and the power my left ear tinnitus rages like hell. Every time i switch the sleeves i change the fitting in Connexx of course. Have the closed and the power sleeves work like this or I am missing something?

Off topic: with the closed and the power sleeves I love how my other pair of HA (Active IX PRO) works streaming sounds, i can finally ear the power and the punch of the bass in music streaming, with open and vented the bass were pratically inexistent.

cheers

Hi there i’m here again to ask for your adivice,

First of all I sold my Signia Active Pro IX because I bought a pair of apple AP3 PRO which work very well as a backup of my silks 7IX, and are overall better than tha active ipro ix for my needs.

I am wearing the silk 7IX from august 2025 (my first experience with a proof hearing aid, i never worn hearing aid before) and i struggled a bit to find the perfect fit. Now i’m stable with the original closed sleeve 3.0. from august to 3 days ago i’ve always programmed my silks with the default settings connexx software provides (IXfit formula, never touched the default gain, just played with programs and some signia assistant adjustment) but i always felt the sensation that i was missing something. never been really happy with the performance.

So i created a new client with a brand new fit, everything stock but raised the gain by two clicks. Now i can say that i hear like I want, some frequencies have still to be fine tuned but in general i hear what my wife hear finally. My doubt started when my wife asked me, do you hear this?(the water falling of the fountain my cats drink from) and to hear that I had to stay close to the fountain (wearing the aids), with this setting i can ear that sound from the same distance she can hear it. she plays this game with me for other sounds too, she devil.

This way i can really say that i hear and unserstand the 99% of words in a conversation with other people. I’m really happy atm.

Could it be dangerous for my ear? this evening i’ll post pictures of my settings.

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Ciao! Hope you had fun in the Netherlands.

The Silks aren’t high-powered devices; they’re designed for mild to moderate hearing loss, so it’s unlikely they’ll cause harm if adjusted to comfortable levels.

I’ve tuned my aids, without using , by relying on the in-situ test. When I want to boost the gain, I head to the in-situ section and adjust the values there. Doing this makes the software play a sound, and based on its volume, I can decide whether to say, “I hear it” and push a little bit and let the fitting formula do its job .

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@Dr_Dr_please said:

everything stock but raised the gain by two clicks.

What “gain” did you rised by two click?

As far as I know, the Silk algorithm may be interpreting the quiet, high-frequency sound of the fountain as background noise. Try:

  1. slightly increase the frequency at 4-8 kHz in “Fine Tuning (Sound & Loudness)” or in “InSitu”

  2. reduce the noise-reduction (Fine Tuning-> Speech & Noise management → Multichannel 4.75-8 kHz by one, for example = MIN.)

Or it may be enough only 2)

My dear friend, happy new year!!!

i just rised the main gain, everything sound a bit louder but still confortable, i’ll try your solution because i’m still testing it, the best and the worst thing i did in my life is ’ng…I can’t find peace XDXDXD.

Happy New Year my dear, pls try new solution as soon as possible to let us know if you still hear you fountain :slight_smile:

Hi my friends, sorry for the late answer, so the are good, really help is critical situation, they are also really unnoticeable, not invisible of course, but very discrete, very important for me…I can’t compare with other models because this is my only pair of HA (i had the ACTIVE PRO IX before but I sold them) but i’m enjoying them.

cheers

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