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My Phonak Lumity aids have now been relegated to the role of emergency spares and my previous Phonak Marvels heading for Ebay.

I have only had the Infinio aids for two days (plus a Phonak Roger On v3, not yet used) so its far too early to report on their performance.

Having used 9 different aids involving 4 brands over the past 21 years I have learned the hard way it takes about a month for my old brain to get fully used to the new accoustics.

What I will say is - the more stable bluetooth and the longer battery life bodes well for the future.

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Comparing size of Lumity hear aids and the Infinio Spheres, do you notice the size difference behind your ear. I wear glasses and with the Lumity hear aids there isn’t a lot of room left behind my ears.

I wear glasses with computer use & reading a lot, sunglasses when driving, etc. no difference to me.

WH

In reply to @Sequoia_Woman

I have had no problems wearing glasses with my Sphere aids. I always buy glasses with thin arms and the smallest possible ends by my ears. Furthermore - I always place the arms out side the aids (next to my ears) so that the aids are held captive, thus not lost if the receivers slip out of my ear.

A repeating problem with my Sphere aids is that they are inconsistent at suppressing road noise in the car. They often stay in Auto and talking to a passenger on rough surface roads is difficult. When they do change to “speech in car (which is much better than my previous Lumity aids) when I stop in traffic and road noise vanishes they change back to Auto. After pulling away and road noise is loud they often don’t change back to the background suppression program.

I have an appointment to visit my audiologist, but am not optimistic that they can cure the problem unless Target provides a tweak..

Create a custom car program based on the one that comes up occasionally and manually put that program on?

WH

In reply to @Alanho

@Alanho said:

I have an appointment to visit my audiologist, but am not optimistic that they can cure the problem unless Target provides a tweak

Request him about faster transition time between subprograms in AutoSense.

Out of curiosity, which receiver power do you have? And which diameter of vents in your earmolds?

I just had to have a chat with chatGTP to find out what UP stands for. I vaguely recall when I had custom tips instead of domes with my Lumity aids, the audiologist told me I then had the most powerful receivers. Fortunately I don’t have small ear canals.

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@Alanho said:

I vaguely recall when I had custom tips instead of domes with my Lumity aids, the audiologist told me I then had the most powerful receivers

Ahhh, for SlimTips P is indeed the most powerful receiver. You can use the UP, which is the most powerful in Phonak lineup, only with cShells.

If money is not a problem, honesty, go for UP. Yeah, SlimTips is convenient when it comes to change the receiver, but first and foremost, the best possible sound quality and audibility should be provided and that is probably the best with UP receiver in your case.

There is review from user convinced to go from M to P receiver (he has milder hearing loss than you) :

Self-Fitting the Phonak (Ultra) Sphere I90 Infinio
After your suggestion, I bought a pair of the P receivers. Never tried them before. I must say I’m surprised by the benefit I have received from them. It’s hard to describe it, but the sound is just fuller, richer and deeper. And I seem to have more distinguishable differences in the quality of the sound each time I make any adjustments. I’ve been able to dial them in very quickly compared to the M receiver. And as you said they fit just fine in my custom molds. Thank you very much for the su…

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My trip to the audiologist was mainly successful. Background noise is now well suppressed. But the aids prefer to change to Sphere rather than speeech in car when there is loud road noise. Thus on a long journey running down the aids batteries more quickly.

Without a passenger the Speech in car programme is adequete enough for me.

I will get this behaviour changed on my next visit so that I can manually invoke Sphere when necessary..

Whilst at the audiologist I collected my replacement Roger On In V3 . The original (ordered with the Sphere aids) was faulty - the base station didn’t work and I was unable to use it as a TV connector or charge the Roger. The Roger works almost perfectly but I need advice about the role of the base station which is connected to the TV by a Toslink cable and power from a USB cable plugged into a mains USB adapter.

If I leave the Roger plugged into the base station - even with the Roger switched off - when I walk into the lounge, the My Phonak app on my samsung phone, switches from Auto to Roger but because the Roger is off, I hear only ambient sound at low volume. I thought that it should only do this if the Roger was on. I am having to leave the Roger out of the base station and switched off to prevent the unwanted program changes using a Separate USB cable to recharge it.. Incidentally this happens when the TV is on or off.

In reply to @Alanho

I think this is due to the toslink cable and something odd about the tv. I’d expect the Roger to cut off when the tv is off. If you disconnect the toslink, it doesn’t do this, right? Maybe switch to analog audio or plug usb into tv? This second way won’t charge Roger when the tv’s not on, but it might keep you from going crazy. Under analog, audio transmission from Roger should shut off about 40 sec after program ends. Unfortunately it will also do this with quiet sections of a program. You’re not charging now because you pull it from the dock. Use std usb-c cable to charge it on its own?

WH

In reply to @Sequoia_Woman

I have the Spheres and wear wire rim glasses and when outside I wear over my glasses sunglasses I have no issue until I wear my motorcycle helmet. So I switched out my face shield to a deep tinted one so I don’t need my over the glasses sunglasses.

Thank you. All info is good as I have small ears and I’ve seen that the Infinio Spheres are larger.

In reply to @Alanho

I have used Boots Hearing in the Uk for the past 6 years but they do not offer other than in a few branches around the country - the neaerest one to me is 50 miles away..

Being curious I arranged to go there for a second hearing test adding REM and the result has proved interesting. I am happy with the result, especially because I had the auto change to the sphere program removed so that it is now manual. I have twice had my batteries expire because I had failed to notice the aids were on Sphere for a few hours.

IAfter a 3 week trial with the new settings I am returning to the provider for some adjustments.

First - the default volume for all the programs is too high and need turning down a notch.

Second - whilst the Sphere programis brilliant at reducing background noise speech is unnatural. Its difficult to describe - a combination of occlusion and slight echo plus a feeling my ears are full. A sort of sensory over-load. It wasnt like this before REM.

I have just bought Phonak Spheres with boots. The audiologist told me they are planning on bringing in in the next 4 to 5 months. I am not holding my breath.

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