Oticon Intent 1 Help

Widex turns off the gain handles because with open fittings all the sound leaks out of your ear anyway, so there’s little point in providing gain here. You can override this by turning off “low frequency stabilisation” in the Compass GPS settings.

I’ve seen this with the vented sleeves. I tried overriding it but it sounds awful, like I can hear the roar of the tires on the street . The default low frequency optimization works well for me.

Your post are extremely educative ! I’ve learned from them.

@Hearing_Potential said:

For future reference for your configuration of loss I probably would’ve recommended Signia devices with own voice processing. You need quite an occluding fit to get good mid and high-frequency audibility but with your good low-frequency hearing you’re likely to get a lot of reverberation of your own voice doing this.

Actually - no and no. IMHO.

If you’re going to occlude you’re going to need to be fitting past the 2nd bend. Surely this can be well vented and drive 23dB of gain without feeding back if you are a bit judicious in the application?

I don’t want to derail the OP’s thread, but your comment interested me a great deal.

I have been considering tinkering with self programming because while my audio has done a fantastic job, she can’t hear what my ears are receiving and tests can only tell so much. It seems like a lot of people have found self programming beneficial to further improve what an audiologist can do. I mean no disrespect to my audio. She has been fantastic but she is still limited by the fact that I am the only one that can hear what my ears are getting. So, now that I have a really good fit, it seems like self programming is the next logical step?

@ronshere said:

The main thing I found was to do it in as silent an area as possible and use the absolutely lowest sound you can hear at each frequency. Also do not forget to use the feedback analyser.

Can you explain what you do here as this sounds like something I would find beneficial. Your comment about your wife’s mumbling low talk is exactly the sort of problem I still encounter. Soft speech is still my underlying problem and my gut instinct tells me it is specific frequencies that are the problem.