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In my opinion, Airpods pro 3 produce a superior sound as hearing aids, than proscription hearing aids in certain situation

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As some of you know, I use Phonak Virto R ITe devices. I suffer from Cochlear Hydrops meaning I have low frequency hearing loss. However, I rarely put bass into my hearing aids because I find it masks speech horribly. I simply cannot understand what people are saying around me and all the pressure with the fitted device makes my condition worse.

However,I also use airpods 3, with a hearing test that they performed and I find their bass response acts very different. I can hear that they are putting more bass into my ear, but it is a more rounded bass and I’m able to understand speech far better.

Now there are a ton of variables here, an absolute shed load. My audio gram which yes, don’t complain you can’t see it I’m having trouble uploading it :slight_smile: the airpods fit differently in my ears etc. Also the airpods started off as earbuds not hearing aids.

My opinion is though, that hearing aids have tiny tiny tiny tinny speakers, where as airpods speakers were built on an entirely different platform. So they can’t amplify to the same degree, but I’d argue they amplify a much nicer cleaner more balanced sound.

I’m curious for people who have used them, what do you think?

Perhaps because I am totally blind and want the full environmental sound around me I take note of this a bit more, but I’ve used the airpods for days at a time now and I get by fairly well. They’re of course not as full featured but the sound is just nicer overall and I don’t have to tinker with it like I do the Phonaks.

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That is great that they work for you. My hearing loss is different. I am wearing Oticon INTENT1 aids and I am thinking about trying the Phonak Virtio R infinio aids if my audiologist agrees that they can work for my needs. While I love the Oticon sound and I can actually understand speech, I miss the ITE aids. Oticon ITE offering is older technology and doesn’t work for my hearing loss very well. I have tried ear buds and even airpods and they don’t work for me. I have given up on iPhone as I had so much connectivity issues in the past. I have the Samsung S25FE now and before the S23. My last iPhone was the 13 and it was terrible. Bluetooth le audio is an absolute game changer as for as streaming is concerned. I have flawless hands free calls and streaming of audiobooks. And the sound is way better than what I had with iPhone. My understanding is that the Phonak Bluetooth classic doesn’t sound as good as Bluetooth le audio but that Phonak aids connected to more of my devices. But as a veteran and my aids come from the and my audiologist of 7+ years has never stirred me wrong as for as my hearing aids are concerned I will be listening to his advice.

Follow these directions to upload your .

  1. Click on your icon.
  2. Click on profile icon.
  3. Select preferences.
  4. Select My Audiogram.
  5. Enter your Audiogram and save.

In reply to @cvkemp

I hope the Virto Rs work for you athey are the nicest aids I’ve tried so far, at least for my hearing loss and they are very customisable. They will have LE audio apparently though no one knows when Phonak will upgrade the firmware for them. They also connect to the Roger system which I personlly find fantastic.

Actuallly it seems changes have been made to the forum recently and now things are more inaccessible. For example the button to create a new topic now just reads “buttton” and where as each topic used to be marked as a heading, this is no longer the case so it makes the forum harder to navigate. Not sure why that is.

If you are like me using your phone or a tablet and in mobile mode then you are very correct. I switch to desktop and saw all of the options.

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@Xonic83 said:

Actuallly it seems changes have been made to the forum recently and now things are more inaccessible. For example the button to create a new topic now just reads “buttton” and where as each topic used to be marked as a heading, this is no longer the case so it makes the forum harder to navigate. Not sure why that is.

@AbramBaileyAuD is it possible to fix it, especially for our blind user which uses a screen reader app?

Actually, for reasons I don’t understand, it seems to have reverted to being accessible again. it was broken for about a week so maybe an upgrade or something somewhere if a number of forums are on the same platform maybe?

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