Costco Kirkland Signature 9.0 (Product Information)

My mother just got the K9’s a week ago at the Stoney Creek Costco in Niagara. She said she paid $2,000.

so it seems that every Costco have a bit different prices

@BrianH said:

My mother just got the K9’s a week ago at the Stoney Creek Costco in Niagara. She said she paid $2,000.

Was that before or after OHIP’s contribution?

That was before. After OHIP she said she paid $1,000.

I was under the impression the K9’s are cheaper than the K8’s and K7’s?

When I got my K7’s a couple years ago I believe I paid approx $2,100 before OHIP. I’d have to look at my old records.

I’m looking to get the K9’s myself next April after my 3 year OHIP contribution resets.

@Danuta said:

so it seems that every Costco have a bit different prices

Aren’t you really just talking about the US dollar vs the Canadian dollar, or are you really finding different KS9 prices from store to store within the same country? Please clarify.

No. When I got my KS7’s in Mar '17, the exchange would have meant that Americans could come to a Canadian Costco and save a bunch of money.
I don’t know about now.
As for different pricing between stores…hmm. Maybe due to different taxes in different jurisdictions with different styles of showing price. All-in or before tax. Dunno.

Edit: nevermind. Mar '17 $1999 a pair plus a stupid eco fee of 80 cents.

I am talking about Canadians Costco; the same country
Hi Nate

I don’t think that’s correct. I’ve heard reports of people connecting directly to laptop with BT and TV seems reasonable. I understand using TV connector uses less battery.

@kannon88331 said:

So my KS9 won’t be able to connect to my laptop that has BT? not my TV that has BT? Bummer. Is this correct??

That sounds highly unlikely. In fact, I ordered mine without the TV connector in the expectation that my old Avantree 164ft long-range Bluetooth Transmitter, which is already plugged into the back of our TV, will work with it. I will report back either way after I get them.

@NateS said:

Avantree 164ft long-range Bluetooth Transmitter

Looks interesting. Will be watching for your review. Will be interested in the latency as well as the range,
Thanks

Went to their web site and found this one, even more range. And usb 5.
https://avantree.com/long-range-bluetooth-transmitter-and-receiver-avantree-tc41914 Anybody tried these?

I know I shouldn’t be posting about these aids when I’ve only had them something like 4 hours now, but I’m so tickled I can’t help myself.

For starters they seem so small and light it’s as if they’re not there. I’m coming from Rexton Trax 42s with custom molds. These have small power domes. I got the molds primarily because with domes, the Trax were constantly backing out of my ears, but even with the molds the right side, where the canal is quite straight is still a problem. So far the KS9s haven’t budged.

Then phone calls. So far I’ve called Amazon customer service over a problem I had, a credit card company to activate a new card, and a friend to use as a guinea pig. No one seems to be having problems hearing me, and on my end it’s wonderful. Admittedly I didn’t call from my car, which has a lot of road noise, or outside, but from home.

The only thing so far that isn’t great is the radio in my car. I listen to a lot of talk radio and the voices sound what I can only call too sharp. Playing music, the singers’ voices still sound that way, although the music behind the voices is good. I made an appointment for 10 days ahead, so will see what can be done about that then.

The hearing business in my Costco seems to have picked up dramatically. They’ve installed a new testing booth and have an HIS in addition to the audi I’ve always seen. (I know that because I did the walk-around-the-store test and ordered the aids from the new person and saw the audi today.)

@tribalrose said:

I listen to a lot of talk radio and the voices sound what I can only call too sharp.

This is typical from what I’ve heard and experienced, although you are a previous HA user so it shouldn’t be so stark. Give it a few weeks to get used to them and then go back to your audi about it. My higher-gain side is definitely “sharp” and “ringy”, still that way after 2 months. I’ve set up an appointment to try to address it now.

Thanks, haggis.

Since my Costco’s hearing department is now booming, I set up an appointment for 10/4 for adjustments when I was there on the theory it’s easier to cancel than to get into a crowded schedule. I was lucky with my original appointment to test the KS9s in that I called and the call before me was a cancellation for the next day, did I want it? You bet.

Some of this, I’m sure, is my needing time to adjust to different aids, and in 10 days I hope to have that sorted. The audi also left off the sports locks (?), whiskers I think of them as, and I think I’m going to ask for them back. It’s easy to insert the Trax by pushing on the butts of the molds. These KS9s not so much, and the only way to remove them is by the receiver wires, which doesn’t seem like such a good idea. The wires are much thinner than those on the Trax.

I’m not going to think about molds again unless I decide to keep them for sure. Same for the tv transmitter. I don’t watch a lot of tv, don’t even watch every day. I got out of the habit during the time I needed aids and couldn’t understand tv dialog and was stopped from doing anything by price. (My first tentative investigation into aids led to an audi who tried to sell me $7,000 worth of Widex and then tried to scare me with visions of dementia if I didn’t buy them. I’m totally resistant to that kind of thing.) Anyway, I can still switch to the Trax and use that for the tv for a few weeks.

I checked the KS9 price at our Edmonton, Canada Costco today, and it is still $1,999.99 a pair.