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Phonak unveils Infinio Ultra, its next-gen hearing aids with clearer 360° voice enhancement, easier maintenance, and all-day battery life.

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Phonak unveils Infinio Ultra and Ultra Sphere, its next-gen AI hearing aids with clearer 360° speech, easier maintenance, and all-day battery life.

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Fantastic.

Good news.

I hope to get new hearing aids soon.

DaveL

In reply to @RAO

Indeed. I’ve just updated the Target software.

Sounds like all current Sphere owners are getting a free firmware update to add the new Ultra improvements. Can anyone confirm?

Jordan

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@JordanK said:

Sounds like all current Sphere owners are getting a free firmware update to add the new Ultra improvements.

Yes, thats correct. The Infinio Ultra upgrade is available with new Target Version 11.1.0 and available for all current Infinios. You can get the Ultra performance upgrade for your Infinio Sphere.

grafik

In reply to @firenzel

@firenzel said:

Yes, the Infinio Ultra update is available with new Target Version 11.1.0. All current Infinios can get the Ultra update.

Thanks! Still need someone to confirm that the hardware (i.e. the two sound processing chips) in the Sphere’s and the Sphere Ultra’s are identical.

Very exciting news.

Jordan

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@JordanK said:

Thanks! Still need someone to confirm that the hardware (i.e. the two sound processing chips) in the Sphere’s and the Sphere Ultra’s are identical.

The same, as Matthew Allsop said and for what I see in Target software.

In reply to @JordanK

I updated Target and did the Ultra update today. Nothing to it , and my Sphere’s are a year old. My question is in regards to the new ear wax tech, wondering if we can upgrade with new speaker wires.

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@JordanK said:

Thanks! Still need someone to confirm that the hardware (i.e. the two sound processing chips) in the Sphere’s and the Sphere Ultra’s are identical

Karl Strom’s article suggests that the Speech Clarity Chip in the Ultra Sphere is different (link in Abram’s OP post: Phonak Launches Infinio Ultra and Ultra Sphere: Improved Processing, Battery Life, and Ease of Use28). The last section of that article is entitled “More Energy-Efficient Spheric Clarity 2.0 Chip.” So, unless the firmware update reprograms the original Infinio Sphere chip, it seems that you’re not going to be able to convert the original Spheres 100% to the Ultra chip level of performance, IMHO.

It is a firmware update and not a hardware upgrade.

I like hearing trackers stuff for the most part but this really really annoyed me. He made it sound like a completely new product and then at the end, you had to watch some super secret video, yet more clickbate as to how to get it free, when you found out it was firmware. Real shame on people who do this just to get views. Even if Phonak are marketing it as a new device, that should come at the start of the video not at the end, not in a separate one. People are already so confused. If I’ve misunderstood I apologise, but reading this thread it seems not.

Oh and BTW from his description of the changes, I think I’m running the ultra platform in my Virto Rs. They have newer autosense and I can confirm it’s a single connection to the phone. My guess is the Spheric stuff is just an add on to the platform that they put in there when the hardware is present.

The Sphere is an additional processor that piggy backs on the Infinio. How do you like the Virtio R infinio? I am interested in possibly get them.

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@Xonic83 said:

Oh and BTW from his description of the changes, I think I’m running the ultra platform in my Virto Rs

Yeah, Virto Infinio R has already much of the Ultra features, like AutoSense 7.0. Of course they do not have Spheric Speech in Noise 2.0.

@cvkemp said:

How do you like the Virtio R infinio? I am interested in possibly get them.

@Xonic83 has already written the review:

Phonak unveils Virto R Infinio
Hi. yes sorry I was meant to post a review here, but life got a bit busy with a new baby on the way and due in 2 weeks slight_smile So, I have to say, of all the hearing aids I@ve tried, I love these the most. weirdly, even though I have lots of bass freq loss, I’ve removed the bass from the proscription, or rather my audi has. it just sounded muffled and clarity was all being masked, because the amount I had to put back I think was making the sound weird in the aids themselves. Anyway, thin…

Might be just the placebo effect, but my initial impression of the update is the following. Everyone has different hearing and different hearing aid settings so my impressions are relative to what things sounded like to me under the original firmware with no change by me of my previous settings.

I hear a bit more high frequency sound. Sounds seem a bit cleaner and crisper, including speech. Because I wear a very occlusive fit (cShells with no vent to facilitate noise removal), my voice with the previous firmware not only sounded boomy in the base range but the overall sound of my voice seemed a bit suppressed (and I would overcompensate by speaking loudly). My voice is still occluded but sounds more natural to me after the update, giving me a better sense of the volume I’m speaking at. I have an improved sense of sound localization, too; my brain seems to be telling me much more decisively than before that sound is coming from a particular direction.

It would be nice if the firmware update made Spheric noise reduction come on automatically more readily. With the previous firmware, it took a really noisy place, like an Apple Store full of customers, to trigger Spheric noise reduction.

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