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Tomorrow I will ask my audie to convert my KS5 Program 1 to Directionality, which seems to be the consensus in this forum.
I would like as much immediate noise rejection as possible without impairing speech recognition.
What additional tweaks should be added that might improve speech?

BTW, Program 2 will stay at fixed directionality with narrow focus. The tests I have run in noisy restaurants have been very encouraging.

Program 1 is now Directionality. However, the difference is not as expected: The volume is significantly lower. I suspect that the gain settings are no longer correct… Maybe she will need to do another …

I also picked up the new mini microphone. The audie had a lot of trouble getting it to work at all. She finally had to reset the KS5s to factory settings… Now it works fine, as either a remote mic or a TV streamer (connected thru audio cable to stereo rcvr headphone jack). IMHO, the mic will be very effective in noisy environments. The bass frequencies are weak. I boosted them 10 using the stereo’s tone controls but could not hear any difference. There may be a sharp cutoff below 750 Hz in the streamed audio.

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Yes. Any sound that comes out of my stereo receiver (TV, DVD, AM or radio, etc.) streams directly to the hearing aids. The audie suggested reducing volume on the mics while streaming but it is too low now and I can’t hear my wife well so we will have to fix this on the next visit.

The transmission is 2.4GHz, which, as I understand it, is in a Resound proprietary format and not officially “Bluetooth”.

I have a appointment at Costco June 9th for a hearing test by request of all my family and friends. I’m 75 and have always been a tec guy, like RC planes, boats, cars and sound systems. When I get a hearing aid, do I need a Tv streamer? Seems like if your ’s are working properly you wouldn’t need to stream.
I do have a bluetooth transmitter on my TV and listen with bluetooth head phones, the problem is there is a slight delay and with the TV speakers on so my wife can hear, I get a echo. I’m wondering if the resound tv streamer does the same thing?

@zztinker said:

I have a appointment at Costco June 9th for a hearing test by request of all my family and friends. I’m 75 and have always been a tec guy, like RC planes, boats, cars and sound systems. When I get a hearing aid, do I need a Tv streamer? Seems like if your HA’s are working properly you wouldn’t need to stream.
I do have a bluetooth transmitter on my TV and listen with bluetooth head phones, the problem is there is a slight delay and with the TV speakers on so my wife can hear, I get a echo. I’m wondering if the resound tv streamer does the same thing?

I have the TV streamer, but I live alone and have the regular sound off when I use the streamer. I only use it for shows that seem to do a poor job of mixing the audio, or shows like Game of Thrones will all the accents. While I know there’s a delay with the streamer, I haven’t noticed it or seen any lip sync issues.

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@zztinker said:

I do have a bluetooth transmitter on my TV and listen with bluetooth head phones, the problem is there is a slight delay and with the TV speakers on so my wife can hear, I get a echo. I’m wondering if the resound tv streamer does the same thing?

According to ReSound, the latency between the TV Streamer and the hearing aid is 18 ms. Echoes usually occur when latency is more than 25 ms.

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@zztinker said:

…, I get a echo. I’m wondering if the resound tv streamer does the same thing?

Try before you buy.
They let me take their demo set home for several days to try out. I did not notice any lag (or enough to matter), but it might have to do with your specific setup or how loud the TV speakers are set.

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@zztinker said:

…, I get a echo. I’m wondering if the resound tv streamer does the same thing?

Try before you buy.
They let me take their demo set home for several days to try out. I did not notice any lag (or enough to matter), but it might have to do with your specific setup or how loud the TV speakers are set.

OK, I had my hearing test and then received the Kirkland KS5 about 6 days ago. I am very happy with them, especially the noise program. I had no problem adapting to them, other than hearing things that I never noticed before. Only problem is the ear piece comes out of my ear after a few hours and I have a problem getting them in my ears, as my ears are a little dry. So far so good…

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OK, I had my hearing test and then received the Kirkland KS5 about 6 days ago. I am very happy with them, especially the noise program. I had no problem adapting to them, other than hearing things that I never noticed before. Only problem is the ear piece comes out of my ear after a few hours and I have a problem getting them in my ears, as my ears are a little dry. So far so good…

I’m new here and called Costco today for an appt. They had a cancellation & took me this afternoon. I’ve had ReSound before so I was anxious to try the KS5. I was impressed by the performance & the 1899 price. I will be picking them up Tuesday. I have gained a lot of info from this forum.

I dropped my KS5s at Costco today for warranty repair. I bought them last September when they first came out, and they’ve worked well until this week. The left aid would die as I cycled through programs with the rocker switch, or used the rocker to go into streaming mode. I’d get the startup tone, and it would revert to program 1. This occurred even with fresh out of the pack batteries.

The right one periodically goes silent, but eventually kicks back on. No warning, no battery tones or anything. It’s like it’s trying to process sound, can’t decide what program to be in, goes dead for a while, then pops back to life.

I’m back in my ReSound Future remote mic aids until the KS5s get back from repair.

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Costco had new aids ready for me today. I have no idea what was wrong, as they just replaced everything. New aids, receivers, everything. At no charge, of course.

I think sometimes it becomes less expensive for the hearing aid repair center to replace the damaged aid than replace each component of an aid needing a rebuild.

I apologize if this is not the best place to post this question, but I have forgotten how to start a new thread and can’t find any instructions here to remind me how to do it. If the moderator would like to move this to a new thread and let me know, that would be great!

I continue to love my Costco Kirkland Signature 5.0s and the Resound mike my sig.other wears, but I am trying to figure out if there is a way to inexpensively add additional less expensive microphones around the house and perhaps in our backyard where the birds gather, that I could switch on and off at will. If am wondering whether there is any way to purchase some cheap transmitting mikes from Amazon and set them to the frequency of the FM receivers in my , or use cheap bluetooth mikes which transmit to a >FM converting transmitter.

Is this possible or practical? I didn’t mind buying one ReSound necklace clip on mike from Costco but I wouldn’t want to spend that kind of $$$ on multiples.

Best wishes, Nate :smiley:

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You would need the Resound Phone Clip+, which would act as a bluetooth receiver. It would work with standard bluetooth transmitters, but you would have to connect to each one, listen to input from that one, move to another area, connect to that one. Unless you had a device that could aggregate or switch each microphone (like a mixer), and present one bluetooth connection to your phone clip+?

In reply to @PastorJeff

This may be the wrong thread for this question, but I bought my KS5’s in Oct 13 and was wondering if there has been any software updates since. I’m going in for a check up on Wed, just wanted to get the most use out of my appointment

Doug

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@Don said:

You would need the Resound Phone Clip+, which would act as a bluetooth receiver. It would work with standard bluetooth transmitters, but you would have to connect to each one, listen to input from that one, move to another area, connect to that one. Unless you had a device that could aggregate or switch each microphone (like a mixer), and present one bluetooth connection to your phone clip+?

Thanks for the suggestion.

Could I eliminate the cost of the Phone Clip+ and substitute a generic > transmitter with tunable frequency?

Does anybody know what FM frequency the KS5 receivers are set to?

Regards, Nate :smiley:

@NateS said:

Thanks for the suggestion.

Could I eliminate the cost of the Phone Clip+ and substitute a generic BT>FM transmitter with tunable frequency?

Does anybody know what FM frequency the KS5 receivers are set to?

Regards, Nate :smiley:

The KS5 doesn’t have built into it. If you want to use FM, you would need to purchase a DAI boot and universal FM receiver. The boot attaches to the bottom of the KS5, and the receiver plugs into that.

@rasmus_braun said:

The KS5 doesn’t have FM built into it. If you want to use FM, you would need to purchase a DAI boot and universal FM receiver. The boot attaches to the bottom of the KS5, and the receiver plugs into that.

Hi Rasmus!

Now I’m really confused! If I don’t have built-in , what is the method of transmission used to wirelessly send sound from the ReSound clip on microphone to my , so I can re-frame my question?

Regards, Nate :smiley:

@NateS said:

Now I’m really confused! If I don’t have built-in FM, what is the method of transmission used to wirelessly send sound from the ReSound clip on microphone to my HAs, so I can re-frame my question?

ReSound uses their own proprietary protocol that runs on the 2.4 GHz band. It’s not Bluetooth.

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