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I will try the linear recommendation but if that fails I will leave once again frustrated with a miserable outlook on life because I may no longer be able to enjoy music and movies. I honestly do not care if I have to give up speech as long as I can hear music with the same clarity as analog without 50 clinic visits I will feel better than winning the power ball.

And I am the opposite I have given up music most of the time just to have a good conversation with my family, friends, and Church family. I have never had an ear for music so I wouldn’t know what real music sounds like anyway.

I have tried the music program is sounds muted.it lacks clarity. It seems everytime I go in for adjustments it just gets worse instead of improving. Analogs when I got new ones all they had to do was turn the dials, fit the molds and pop in a battery and I’m good to go, not anymore. It’s more about the $ than our ability to hear.

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Leithe21:Yeah, I miss the analog. They were way cheaper too! A digital is $4-6K and medical insurances won’t pay unless I get surgerical implants. No thanks. I just want an external hearing aid!

That’s astonishing how they are forcing those who prefer analogs into implants or digital. In your case Ant forcing you to get an implant which costs 10x as much not to mention the therapy required to recover from the implant and countless hours of programming and training to use the implant that is of course you have no rejections.

This is a belated reply, but just adding a note of empathy here. You’re quite right that linear programming will not fix the problem, and there isn’t a particularly good reason why analog devices are completely unavailable. It seems to me that the situation is eminently fixable, however. I would encourage you to continue to pressure your audiologist to communicate your interest in analogs to the manufacturers. If you have any ideas for how to bring back analog aids, though, I’d certainly be interested.

MDHearing has a starter model that is analog, very inexpensive, I think it is called the Pro. No idea how it sounds, my MDLux is digital but is very nice. Great customer service as well so for the price if you are looking for analog it is probably worth a shot.

Hi, Wow! This is a great thread. See my profile below. If I wanted to try a used or new analog , can someone suggest one for my profile?

250 Hz L-15 R-25
500 Hz L-25 R-25
1000 Hz L-40 R-45
2000 Hz L-85 R-100
4000 Hz L-100 R-95
8000 Hz L-95 R-95
L 35 R 45 dB

I have had basically zero luck with digital aids and the more I read, the more I wonder if an analog HA might be best for me.

Thank you!

In reply to @Shazz

Omg… we’re singing from the same song sheet here! I too am an advanced nurse practitioner in urgent care and love love my old analogues and am struggling with digital aids. I’ve worn aids for 54yrs and have severe hearing loss I can hear normally with my analogies better than digital and use my brain too! Hence think we have a higher level of hearing intelligibility! There is no excuse for companies to continue making analogues. However, the reason they don’t is because digital are quicker and cheaper to make and don’t last long .. so it’s a big money market out there for them! This I found out from various trusted sources! There is a niche in the market for someone out there to set up analogue aid manufacturing.. I keep trying g to persuade hubby to do it but he has a fine tremor in his hands so can’t do it! For music… mmm sounds not great and reverberates when I get it right! I play the piano and woukd love to sing. Singing is impossible with digital aids awful! Too much delay! I don’t always need to lip read as I’m well tuned in .. so good aids are essential but what’s the answer?? I’d love to go to phonaks research centre and tell them to go back to analogue!! Let me know how you get on :blush:

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