Hello all,
I’ve been trialing the Oticon Intent 1 (my first pair of hearing aids) for two months now.
I’ve been trying to pin down a strange sound my Oticon Intent 1 aids make, and I’ve managed to reproduce it synthetically so others can hear exactly what I mean (audio attached).
Device: Oticon Intent 1 RIC, firmware 1.4.0 (reported as the latest by the Oticon Companion app).
What triggers it:
- Driving over a pothole or sharp bump in the car
- Tapping the top of the headband on my Logitech Pro X headset (worn over the aids)
Any sharp mechanical shock to the device seems to set it off. It’s not a sound from the environment being amplified — it’s the device itself generating a tone in response to the physical jolt.
What it sounds like:
A short, dry percussive “bonk,” somewhere between a damped xylophone bar and a small spring. Two pitches sound almost together (a higher one that dominates, ~1080 Hz, and a lower supporting one, ~900 Hz — roughly a minor third apart). Hard attack, quick decay, no long ringing tail. I’ve attached a SoundCloud URL (sounds are not allowed as attachments on this forum) a synthesized clip that matches it very closely.
Questions for the community:
- Has anyone else noticed their Intent 1 (or other Oticon models) producing a tone when physically jarred?
- Is this a known microphone/transducer resonance, a feedback-cancellation artifact, or something in the firmware?
- Is it worth reporting to Oticon / my audiologist, or is it expected behavior?
Happy to share more detail on settings if useful. The attached audio is a synthetic recreation. I built it iteratively until it matched what I hear (about 90%), so it should give a good sense of the pitch and character.
Thanks.
Regards,
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I do think this clip could improve that song.