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In reply to @Rick25

Rick, when you get the KS9s, you’ll want a manual program for playing your musical instrument. One weakness in the KS9s is that the feedback management creates a “trill” when it hears what it thinks is a pure tone (feedback) and rejecting it, plays with a very fast pitch modulation back and forth that’s unacceptable for hearing music properly. So, for my music program, I start with theirs, shut everything off, and set the mic to OMNI. That works best. I also had to tweak some of the 2-4K range to goose it just a little bit. Coming from the AUTO setting, where QUIET is what I hear 90% of the time at home, there’s a slight reduction in that 2-4K range in the MUSIC setting. Having the software and the ability to tweak it shaved many visits back and forth to Costco to try and communicate to the fitter exactly what I needed. AND being able to hear it and tweak it in my own listening space made all the difference. Hope your experience is just as successful.

Caveat: if you need custom ear molds, or , you may not need to ever have the feedback management parameters engaged, in which case, you won’t need to worry about the trill issue.

Thank you Bob! Music has been the most difficult part to control with my last aides. I am so glad I joined this forum. I also hope to get the software to be able to tweak it myself as well. My days of locked hearing aides are over.

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@Rick25 said:

Such an irony for musicians that instead of just a diminished volume, Accurate pitch is compromised also. Especially playing bass! I hope things get better for all of us.

For me, I wouldn’t go as far as to say compromised pitch. I think it’s more about volume. Crank old familiar music up and I hear what I remember. It’s usually just subtle background sounds. Like the quiet little alarm clock bell ringing in The Beatles Day In the Life piece transition where Paul takes over. But that would be unsafe volume levels :slight_smile: And then the hyperacussis steps in and says nuh uh. Turn it down dude.

I suspect those that are using variations of a sound recover concept where it brings down frequencies into the more hearable range would have the pitch issue you mention.

As for the “trill” mentioned here…I call it warble. Like the microwave beep.

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