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I am a musician/singer and my Oticon Intent 1 aids lose all the bass and make everything sound trebly and unnatural. I can't even understand my wife a part of the time.

I see that there are new releases of aids - does anyone have experience or knowledge of them please?

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If you have recently abrupt change of hearing you should go to the as soon as possible. Entering your and would be helpful to provide better advices.

Sadly, no-one has given me an , neither the NHS or private audiologist - they just showed me a computer screen. Yes, I did ask for a copy but they both 'forgot'.

The optician in our town of Royal Wootton Bassett has just started doing hearing tests so I might try them. It's a bit miffing as the Oticon pair cost me £3000 a year and a half ago.

By the way, it was not an abrupt change of hearing. To quote the 'expert audiologist', he usually just turns up the treble and away they go.

Any serious musicians must learn to , do their own tuning and adjustments. It is not that difficult and should be easily understood by any "real" musicians.

i'm a serious musician and I do NOT self program. this topic has been done to death and I advise the OP to search through past posts. Audis have all the tech immediately available in their office and can easily perform the necessary adjustments that are REQUIRED for musicians. Most/all of these adjustments run contrary to how audis program for everyday hearing of speech. So one has to find an audi who understands this. I brought in a handy dandy cheat sheet written by a respected group that details the steps that need to be taken to program for musicians. It's findable somewhere on this site. Or look up Chasin.

just don't seem to do bass. Some Phonak users say Phonaks are bassier than another brand, but I just don't see how it can be, unless it boosts bass unnaturally, which wastes battery and messes with phase and probably other dastardly things, too.

If you search the web - I've forgotten what search argument I used - you'll find some recommendations, including: 1) cut feedback as much as possible, 2) increase max power, 3) disable frequency replacement (wrong word, but can't think of the right one), 4) cut compression as much as possible, and 5) other things I don't remember.

I can only make music by playing a record, CD, or radio. I have a music program on my Jabras, but recorded music still sounds wrong (probably timing issues in the ). Each generation of HAs has been better, though; I'm no in my 5th gen, and it's on a lot of records. Live music has been great even in gen 1, even though I have to see the bass instrument players move their hands to fill in the bass line.

Widex is worth a try. It may work for you. Music is a lot more than frequency response. A system with good timing outperforms systems with better freq response but poorer timing to the ears of many people. Live music gets the timing accurately, even if it's wrong. That is, the timing of live music goes through no DSP except that in the HAs of HA users. Anyway, Widex says it does the timing right.

Don't want to start the argument on self fitting but it seems ironic that for musicians as per Chasin you turn off all the processing, so easy to do in the software once you overcome Initial fear.

However not everyone is comfortable with that, particularly a wrinkly like me, I remember that feeling of trepidation o ce I went live.

On subject of bass, I have superb reproduction from TV connector using P70UP and uvented full silicon molds. I wish speech was as good.

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