Consistent static on new Philips HearLinks 9050

Bongo, thanks for explaining source. I was wondering about that. Beet, it is hard to describe the noise…it is not uniform. Varies from static to hum to holding seashell against your hear. Pretty sure it is not a loose connection. First thing I did was manipulate receiver wire.

I've been using my new Philips 9050 hearing aids for a week now. Because of my hearing loss, I use the Receiver 105 in acrylic ear molds with ventilation.

I like the way they process sounds—it's almost natural.

But the problem I’m having is that when I walk around the house, am in a quiet environment, or even walk through the mall, I hear a beeping sound or feedback that only I can hear, since it’s like an internal sound. The sound is just like the whistle you hear when you take off your hearing aids while they’re still on.

Interestingly, when I put on a pair of on-ear headphones, the whistling stopped. I think it’s due to sound leakage at high frequencies or that the receiver is reaching its limit.

On the other hand, sometimes my voice or someone else’s sounds like bacon frying, but this happens only occasionally. As I was told, this is an effect that occurs when the hearing aid adapts sounds to a frequency that allows me to hear clearly.

I tried the solution suggested by @Jackhammer , and sure enough, I no longer have those annoying beeps.

But I’d still like to see this issue resolved in the General Program.

Is there some reason this wasn't corrected for when they switched to the current receiver? Some advantage to this design?

I have not experienced the beeping sound. I have static which sounds like bacon frying. I do not believe it is Brownian noise which would be constant. My static is mostly in left HA, but sometimes in right. It is worse when first turned on maybe because they are booting up. Brownian noise has been described as a low roar or distance thunder rumbling. I believe my static is caused by circuit noise. As you change settings to minimize processing, you can reduce static. Your fitter can change settings on all programs.

Floor noise with the 9050’s seems to be a common problem but apparently it does not bother everyone. If you have to disable Adaptive Directionality to reduce floor noise, why buy the 9050’s?

No doubt these are noisy devices. I have loaner Sonite Rise and they are quiet as a church mouse.