Costco Kirkland Signature 9.0 (Product Information)

There are a few here on the forum learning this. It took me buying Phonak Naida UP aids to prove it. Audiologist have been missing this but not Costco. The Costco fitter caught it. At 120db all I get is an almost painful thump in the ear when getting an audiogram, not sound.

Even with an audiogram like mine, trying to amplify above 4khz is pretty pointless. I use a low power receiver, but frequency lowering helps me hear the highs.

Looking for suggestions for easy to use blue tooth devices for Sig9’s.

Been lurking here for the whole of this conversation. I am wearing the Sig8’s. I just brought my friend in and got him the Sig9’s yesterday. He’s got Alzheimer’s so difficult with the blue tooth devices. He likes Big Band music. I was hoping to find him a program that I could download on his MAC so he could stream from that directly to the Sig 9’s. Is there any software that will work with the MAC computer such that he can watch the computer and listen via the HA’s? He’s too far gone to use a phone to call people and he has a speech impediment which makes that not even worth trying, but I might be able to get him a smart device or phone just for the video and streaming of youtube. Any suggestions? I tried it with my wife’s Iphone 6plus and it worked pretty well. He was into it.

Looking for suggestions for easy to use blue tooth devices for Sig9’s. Thanks, Allen

Since my Trax 42 have fail multiple times…I asked my HST person about KS9s not being powerful enough for my loss. Someone else here mentioned it would not be. Her comments were…The KS-9 will be able to serve your needs, it has a custom power receiver the same as what you are wearing now. and added… The only thing is it is battery operated only and its now a 312 battery which with the amount of power you would require they battery would only last 5-7 days or less depending on how you are using the HA. Currently in your HA’s you use a 13 battery

For now I’ve got my Trax 42s working…but given the failures in the aids, I feel I’m going to have to move out of them at some point.

John,

If that’s like the Phonak app you’re probably looking at the page when it’s trying to connect to the two sides separately to get the battery levels and let you switch programs. That would be all BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) with which it makes a separate connection to each side. My Phonak app does that sometimes where it’ll connect to one and not the other (usually seems to be the left that doesn’t connect).

If it’s in that location in the app that I described, then it doesn’t have to do with the Bluetooth audio only connecting to the right HA (and the right connecting to the left separately).

I too have had the KS9 for three weeks. The app should show both HAs connected. On one occasion, my app behaved as you describe. I restarted the aids and the app, then app found both. It hasn’t happened since.

Just an update on battery life. I’m using the ultra power receiver and the fitter said he set it to 110%. The first pair of batteries gave out after 4 days and 6 hours. Average wear time is 16 hours. Probably an hour of bluetooth and another hour of TV Connector per day. Wish it was longer, but I may just switch the batteries out every 4th morning rather than wait for them to die.

On the plus side, they only beep every 15 minutes or so, rather than every 60 seconds like my Trax did.

Thanks, Nate.

I have an Iphone 5c which works fine with my Sig 8’s, but not his sig 9’s.
My wife’s Iphone 6Plus works with both Sig8 and sig 9’s.
Dell Latitude E6410 with Ubuntu 18.04 unable to connect to either Sig8 or Sig9.
Imac with OS10.9.5 unable to find the Sig 8 nor the sig9.

Thanks,
Allen
I’m not sure that the Imac is capable of streaming music direct to his Sig 9’s. Is that possible? I know my Iphone 5c should be able to do that, but connectivity to the Sig9’s seems intermittent at best. I’ve also experimented with my Dell Latitude E6410 running Ubuntu 18.04, but that was unable to connect with Bluetooth.

@allenmoretsky said:

I’m not sure that the Imac is capable of streaming music direct to his Sig 9’s. Is that possible?

I don’t have KS9s yet, but the standard convention for pairing on a Mac is to pull down System Preferences from the “Apple” symbol at the far left of the menubar at the top of the screen, select “System Preferences…” and then click on the Bluetooth symbol (If you don’t see it start typing in “blu…” at the top right Q box); then make sure that Bluetooth is turned on or turn it on.

Then follow the standard Phonak Marvel instructions for pairing, which I believe are:
" 1. First open for 5 seconds and then close the battery doors on the hearing aids, or switch the hearing aids off and on again, if you have a rechargeable (Phonak Marvel) hearing aids.
2. After several seconds, the name of your (Phonak Marvel) hearing aids will appear on the (Mac) screen. Tap on it to select.
3. You will now see a message, “ Bluetooth Pairing Request ” Click “ Pair ”.
4. A connection beep will be heard in the paired hearing aid."

True. I just got spoiled by the 13s I’ve had with my last couple hearing aids. My biggest concern was that it would be under 4 days, so I’m at least content with this.

At worst you could get a small bluetooth speaker and connect that to bluetooth as well. They are pretty cheap ($10-15).

There is a slight chance somewhere in the settings you can tell it to send audio to both the bluetooth and system speakers in the Advanced settings, but I doubt it. Hopefully someone with a mac can help.

They are in Canada as of yesterday August 26th.

Just got the ks9. Is there a better program than the easy line remote. Still have my ks 8 but so far very happy with the new ones. I have a month to try them before I return the ks8 or the ks9.

I don’t have a Mac so I can’t say for sure but this article might help.

Play sound on multiple devices, including Internal Speakers, on OS X16

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