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Costco Kirkland Signature 9.0 (Product Information)

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In reply to @don2

don2,
I have KS8s and I’m still in my trial period. I’m curious whether you’ve found the KS9s to be better than the KS8s.
In particular, I have had problems with one of the dropping out when bluetooth streaming - and I’m curious whether the streaming is better with the KS9s.

With bluetooth I’ve found it is much less stable with the phone in my pocket, but I’ve found that with every bluetooth device I’ve had. I think it has something to do with how the antennas are set up in the phone. Set it on the table and I can get a stable signal 30 feet away. Stand the phone upright and I suffer drops occasionally.

In reply to @jbtg

The KS9 streaming direct to android works well. I have had to re pair a few times. Like other bluetooth things I have. The range seems quite short and if I put my hand over the phone in my pocket it may cut out but come back if I move my hand away.
The phone works fine.
The android app is pretty lame but hope it will get more features down the road.
I like the KS9 better but that is a personal preference. I think the sound of the surrounding is better. That may affect phone calls in noisy places. The wind noise is far better with the KS9.

Easy question. What is the name of the KS9 app that I look to download for Android? Thanks.

Zinc-Air batteries maintain a very stable battery voltage until they start to die. Then the voltage drops like a stone. Battery indicators are essentially useless. On mine the app shows battery life, as well as the Smart Remote app. Both are totally useless. Most likely your batttery life will be very predictable, almost to the hour. If you sweat about it, then record when you change the battery, and monitor how many hours of use you get. You will quickly get an accurate indicator of when the batteries will need to be changed.

In reply to @harleydmn

There is no real time battery status, but it will tell you when they are getting low.

My KS9 goes six days +/- a few hours every time. So if I replace on Weds I know to have some bats with me next Tues.

I currently have KS4 hearing aids (yeah - old!) and am thinking about getting the KS9 aids. I’m a bit confused about the Bluetooth connectivity vs. the TV Connector. I have a Sony Bravia X900E TV that has Bluetooth. If I want to connect the KS9 aids to the TV can I do so thru Bluetooth or would I have to purchase the TV connector?? Thanks for any help . . .

I suspect you can, but it would be with Classic Bluetooth, not Bluetooth Low Energy (). The KS9 only comes with the 312 battery to my knowledge, and using it for classic bluetooth streaming might be pretty hard on batteries.

In reply to @gandalf1369

My understanding is that you could do it (stream from your Sony TV directly), but assuming you have a smartphone too, you’d have to repair everytime you switched. The TV connector would eliminate that need.

If the KS9’s eventually get an upgrade (like the Marvels) to support two devices, you could use the BT in the TV and keep your phone paired (and connected) as well.

But the TV connector is so much better than trying to make a BT pairing and maintaining it. It streams directly to both ears and connects faster and less problematically than BT in my experience.

When I get the 2.0 upgrade for my Marvels I’m going to continue using the TV connector.

I guess I don’t understand why anyone needs connectivity to their TV if they have a good pair of hearing aids. I wear mine about 12-14 hrs a day and have no problems hearing the TV or anything else. If I don’t wear my I have to turn the volume up about 30% higher and of course that is a problem with the wife - - so I wear them!

I really love the way the KS9s connect to my iphone on calls, but don’t see the need for TV. Pls explain.

In reply to @Sodaman

I’ve actually wondered this too, but I have mild hearing loss. Is it better for those of you with severe/profound hearing loss to have it piped to the hearing aids?

When piping TV directly to hearing aids, I would also assume you’d lose any surround sound effects as well.

In reply to @Sodaman

@Sodaman said:

I guess I don’t understand why anyone needs connectivity to their TV if they have a good pair of hearing aids.

You make a good point, logically.

Empirically, I can make out dialog better if it’s streamed right to my ’s. I don’t remember specifically how the audi set up the TV Connector program, but she may have attenuated the microphones so I get less interfering sound. Anyway, especially when I’m trying to make out accents, the intelligibility is better when I have earphones, headphones, or HA streaming.

@haggis said:

Empirically, I can make out dialog better if it’s streamed right to my HA’s.

With ReSound, using the Smart 3D app, one can turn off the external mics entirely and hear only the streamed media. Amazing how much it improves sound clarity of the streamed content as with occlusive molds, you hear much, much less of background sounds, if at all, such as the fan chugging on, wind and automobiles when outside, all the clanging of weights and chatter when at the gym, etc. With streaming only, you won’t get all the bass if you’re TV is hooked up to a hi-fi system and I think someone in another post awhile back mentioned that streaming with the HA’s favored front speaker output-so you might be losing sound dimensionality from a 5:1 or 6:1 surround sound system by going to a TV streamer vs. just using your HA’s and catching the room sound in your audio setup.

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