Costco Rexton Trax 42 (Product Information)

@Um_bongo said:

Look, I don’t want to seem like I’m picking on your posts here as you’re an experienced poster, but have a think before posting stuff like the above and the incessant Widex plugging due to their Audibility Extender. It’s really easy to establish fallacies in the minds of the people who are looking for advice on here - this sort of stuff will make them look foolish in front of their Audiologist.

Not to worry, I don’t have a problem picking on it. I read that post this morning and wondered if anyone would address it before I had time to get to it. Glad to see someone other than me flabbergasted at the asinine things that this guy writes. Let’s take a look.

you will have to clean your aids before and after you wear them. I suspect many on this forum are stating that they are but really they can’t be bothered with cleaning their aids.

There you have it folks. doubledown has examined your posts and is led to suspect that many of you are liars who say they clean their equipment but really don’t. He knows if you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake! Shame on you morally suspect individuals who do this sort of thing. You know who you are and its time you not only clean your aids but clean up your act as well!!

wax is a lubricant. it’s also filled with viruses and germs that will inflame your ear canal wall ensuring an improper fit.

Whatever was God thinking when he put it there? Surely any modern day inorganic synthetic lubricant would have been a better choice.

I suspect many audis are not properly keeping the aids clean before giving them back to the users.

AH HA! It’s not just the morally deficient non-cleaners that fall under the all seeing eye of DD. Do you professionals know nothing about maintaining a sanitary environment? Do you wash your hands after using the rest room? Hmmmmm?

some have posted that the audi mixed the left and right ears.

C’mon all you audis. R in Red is for R in Right. No no, your OTHER right. Sheesh!

hearing aids do not help in large group conversation or meetings. they do not help at the movies. they do not work at concerts.

Oh no I am lost; the ground I [thought] I was standing on is collapsing beneath me. Is there a psychologist in the house? I was sure that my instruments were of considerable help in each of the above situations. I’m obviously wrong and all that help I thought I was getting must be nothing more than a figment of my imagination. Just the cognitive fantasies of a deluded user. Woe is me.

If you ever watch anybody film anything ever in your life you find that microphones are typically placed right next to the speaker. if our hearing aids worked as well as you expect them to, then these film crews would not be carrying big poles and huge shotgun microphones and stick them right next to the sound sources.

Golly gosh and gee whizz, I thought they did that in order to record the voices at normal conversational levels. But hey, what do I know?

I’m guessing Widex pays him by the number of times it appears in his post.

I’m still trying to figure out why I have to clean my HA before and after use. I use Audio wipes to wipe down my domes and HA after I’m through wearing them for the day, then I put the HA in the dryer unit to sterilize and dry the HA. I see no need to clean them the next morning before inserting them.

Exactly what I do. And what my Costco HIS suggested.

@japple said:

I was told to do the following: put the HAs in the case at the end of the day and clean them in the morning. This gives the residual wax time to harden. I alcohol swab the domes once a week as well as the inside of the case.

Any flaws in this approach?

No, sounds just fine to me.

@japple said:

I was told to do the following: put the HAs in the case at the end of the day and clean them in the morning. This gives the residual wax time to harden. I alcohol swab the domes once a week as well as the inside of the case.

Any flaws in this approach?

It hardens if stored in a dryer that uses some heat. It will dry the wax which will then flake off with light brushing–at least that’s what I’ve read. I don’t make much wax. I’ve never had any collect on, or even color the domes. I change them every two weeks and change the wax guards once a month just to keep new stuff in my ears and avoid potential problems. I do store them in a UV dryer overnight for the sterilization effect, again just a matter of prevention. There is more than one way to skin a cat and if you’re way is working then why over think it?

@Mark_Chambers said:

Oh sure you do. Yer prolly one of those who say they do but really don’t and one of these mornings yer gonna wake up and find your ears filled with viruses and germs that will inflame your ear canal and they won’t fit anymore. And thassafact!!

Better than having a dick in your ears.

@Mark_Chambers said:

I’ll take your word for it.

I figured you had experience with it.

@brianric said:

Better than having a dick in your ears.

Sounds like a way to catch hearing aids.

Meanwhile…, I tried my different modes last night and strangely enough, I could hear TV best on Outdoor Traffic. No idea why that would be. I had quit playing with the modes but Evil has inspired me to play around some more.

@brianric said:

I figured you had experience with it.

You’re not sitting on a bar stool with your work buddies. There are ladies in this forum.

@Mark_Chambers said:

C’mon all you audis. R in Red is for R in Right. No no, your OTHER right. Sheesh!

2 people on the forum had their aids mixed up recently. This is something everybody should be checking.

I bet you wouldn’t be acting this way if you could just hear better.

@doubledown said:

why don’t you point out the problem you have with my recommendations?

Widex’s Audibility Extender is the best frequency lowering technology out there. We here knew this since it came out and the entire industry knows it.

Simply because it doesn’t work for most people - frequency compression/overlay/lowering has it’s place in terms of severe/profound sloping losses where a degree of ‘sound transposition’ can be beneficial - which AVR established about 20 years ago. However there are three linked problems with the kind of implementation that we see today:

1. It’s detrimental to use it for people with residual HF hearing who NEED to have the HF stimulation to make them hear like they remember. Rather than being enforced to hear sounds at the wrong frequency. They generally perceive the sound as interference.

2. It trains the brain to accept a corrupted version of the sound for THIS set of hearing aids which might only be suitable for moderately severe losses, where as a more powerful properly fitted aid could achieve the result with no corruption of the signal.

3. The proprietary standards are just that, PROPRIETARY - this means that every person ‘trained’ for six years is going to need to have another set of Widex aids to feel the same way about their hearing in the future. This is fine if your income is secure, but what if you cannot afford the next pair?

There’s nothing wrong with the Unique line, it’s a very good aid (apart from the cheapskating with the wind noise feature in the lower models) however you can’t really recommend it based on your reading of the features - especially based on a feature that only seems to work for a small minority of fittings.

Saying that ‘the entire industry knows it’ is complete rubbish - WHO’S ‘WE HERE’ ? If you’re on about the forum, the only person incessantly posting stuff about the Unique range is you - yet you don’t wear it or have any experience fitting Widex? If I was suspicious like Dr Jake, I might ask how much you get paid per mention of the system. However, even Widex aren’t pushing it to the industry as a ‘killer’ feature, so I’m guessing you’re so far off message that they aren’t paying for the exposure.

@doubledown said:

I bet you wouldn’t be acting this way if you could just hear better.

I wouldn’t act this way if you confined your posts to areas where you might actually have some valid input. You have a severe loss, are experienced with the CROS system and could provide [one would think] some very useful information to people with similar hearing losses. But instead you read articles posted on the internet that anyone can read (many of them written by people on the payroll of the product in question–I’ll mention Kuk since Widex is being bandied about) and then disperse that information as if you were a research professional with first hand knowledge of the effectiveness of the technology. AS IF! And to make it worse you then take that limited knowledge and make recommendations that sound more prescriptive than suggestive to someone you know nothing about save the partial audiology report posted in the sig line of an internet forum. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

@doubledown said:

2 people on the forum had their aids mixed up recently. This is something everybody should be checking.

Just want to add that everyone’s HA’s are different. For the Trax42, the Red piece is tied to the wire leading to the receiver. When this is disconnected from the BTE piece, both the Right and the Left BTE look exactly the same. There is no other obvious designation to Right or Left on the BTE piece that I am aware of.

So, yes Right and Left BTE can get crossed up if the audi isn’t careful enough.