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Debate - Oticon Reveal vs Phonak EON

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@flashb1024 said:

I find it rude to converse while an entertainer is performing, but other than that, thanks for the update!

ha ha....that's something I think about a lot in those places too. Especially when there are only a very small number of customers...it feels wrong to talk over the person putting their heart and soul into making music.

That said, I'd say safe bet that @luga was either a) at a place where the musician knows that they are there playing background music, or b) whispering discretely if it was more like an entertainer situation. Given that it was a restaurant, I'd bet that it was one of those places where there are a million conversations going on.... the band is playing non stop for hours, folks are arriving, placing orders, getting their food, eating and visiting with their parties, paying the bill, and leaving.... all while the band is still playing. Folks aren't expected to be polite and silent for the entertainer in those situations!

In reply to @glucas

there's 3 settings for this in and noise setting in genie 2. I looked over it with my audi, there is a frontal option for speech in noise. as well as 360 and semi.

In reply to @bradw

I also keep my Oticons on the General setting 98% of the time. I went to a party last night which had about 80 people in quite a small space with a singer to boot. I switched to speech in noise and could hold conversations. It wasn't that easy but then everyone else was having an issue with the noise anyway. The previous evening I went to a dark Blues concert and added wax earplugs in my outer ear on top of the wire (as it was quite noisy), and it worked very well with loudness removed.

So, to summarise, I'm very pleased with the Reveal as it meets my main issue of ordinary speech even when it's in a group or directed away from me or from the next room. I seem able to relax more, knowing I don't need to try as hard. It also works adequately for the 1% of the time when it's very noisy.

In reply to @seadog

so in the party situation you had to manually switch? Is that the case anytime you go to a noisy cafe or whatever....that's it's notably better if you manually switch to a different program?

That's the sort of thing that I grew to appreciate about my old Marvel aids. I never had to touch them except to change to t-coil. I'm just starting to think that I might prefer the Oticon background noise strategy and it seems like Oticon offers more headroom that I'm needing now but I don't want to have to change programs all the time either. Still maybe it's worth it.... & 98% leaving alone sounds pretty good I suppose, unless you only go outside of calm environments 2% of the time....;)

There is a topic asking how the EON performs in a movie theater (cinema). Can anyone give a comparison how each, the EON or the Reveal does or compares in a movie theater, a live concert, or in a sports arena (with a crowd)?

In reply to @bradw

I changed the program to speech in noise manually using the app but I don't know whether I needed to do this. In the classes I go to, which has quite loud music, I can hear the instructor quite clearly on the general setting.

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