Costco Kirkland Signature 9.0 (Product Information)

@rdboukes said:

If the purpose of opening the battery door is to turn them off in loud noise, just mute them with a long hold on the lower button.

Yes I agree, that with the long hold on the button I no longer have that reason, but do find it extremely inconvenient to have to remove the hearing aids to switch BT sources, the reason mentioned by the original poster.

“It’s Always Something!” LOL!

Well, well it is always something! My audio jack receptacle on my laptop is loose as well, I duct taped it. Now it doesn’t come loose and start playing out loud, the oohs and ahhs were getting hard to explain away. Always somthin’.

RDB

@NateS said:

I have found it impossible with the KS9s as they snap shut so tightly.
If you can do it, what’s the secret to your success?

I do it sometimes. It takes practice and patience (initially anyway).

Before I got the mute feature turned on I got pretty good at doing it, however when glancing at myself in the mirror, and noticing hair sticking out, and the aids dangling from it, realized I really wasn’t doing it that well. Now no need.

RDB

Sounds like you need to have the hearing aid fitter turn down the phone streaming volume. However, I don’t know iPhones at all, so perhaps there’s another adjustment you could do?

I was able to play with the setting on the phone in the easy line app and tweak the bottom setting where you can adjust the background noise and realized I can change that setting while BT streaming by using the volume on the HA itself. By increasing the surround sound it reduces the volume of the stream. This is a work around but it would be good to have it set at a lower volume.

At my next appointment I’ll ask for this.

The volume on the phone can be adjusted with the phone itself, leaving the HA’s in the midpoint.

RDB

I know what you mean about not hearing the sounds for so long. Hearing the S, ch, f, etc. was so weird the first week. It was like everyone had a lisp. It’s getting better now. I’m amazed how good these hearing aids are!!! I hear sounds I did not hear with the old KS4’s and in the 2 weeks since getting them I don’t think there’s been one occasion where I did not understand my wife, even when she spoke softly!

They deliver to both ears.

Can I use my entertainment system receiver’s Bluetooth output instead of a Phonak TV Connector?

Thanks, RDB. You’re right, that’s too much of a PITA. I’ll go with the TV Connector cabled to the monitor’s optical output – the receiver doesn’t have optical out.

You don’t need an optical out from your receiver. You just need a cable with two RCA male plugs to a single 3.5mm or 1/8" stereo plug on the other. Come from the old fashioned TAPE OUT or REC OUT on the receiver to the input of the TV connector. Works perfectly for me. I can listen to anything the receiver is playing (radio, streaming, CD, tape (gasp!), DVD, or TV.

I thought optical might have better sound, but I suppose even if it does it’s not better enough that I could tell the difference.

In this case, absolutely not. Considering we all have hearing loss significant enough to merit hearing aids, the advantages of optical connections or 48K vs 44.1k or 16-bit vs 24-bit are pretty much lost on us. So, in this case, the good, old fashioned solution is just fine.