They offered me a Phonak P90 or a GN Resound ONE. Is this a good deal?

@MisTrae said:

found that projecting my voice through the classroom triggers the noise

Yeah this sounds about right, it’s clipping, this is something easily adjusted by your audiologist, adjustments made through noise reduction and MPO in the right frequencies, at your level of loss you may not want to turn it off completely, otherwise really loud sounds may become increasingly uncomfortable.

@jay_man2 said:

I may ask that Impulse Noise Reduction be left on to see if it happens with the new aids, and have it turned off during the live assistance appointment if it does.

Won’t you need loud sounds to trigger the issue, if not, that Impulse noise reduction feature is pretty aggressive!

When it was on I knew exactly the environment and sounds that trigger the clicking. If I choose to leave it on in the Jabra aids I can easily test it in exactly that same environment with the exact same sounds.

After trialing the Phonak P90 and the GN Resound ONE, I finally went with the later and ordered a Phone Clip+, so I can stream from other sources rather than from the limited range of compatible android phones.

While the Phonak P90 were really comfortable and Bluetooth streaming was really smooth, the rationale for choosing the GN Resound ONE was the following:

• I felt that speech in noise was better with GN (just slightly better, though).
• Sound felt more natural to me with GN.
• My previous HA were a pair of Phonak V90, with a really similar sound quality compared to the P90, so: I already had the Phonak experience and I can come back to it if I ever want that. That is: I didn’t perceived a huge improvement over the V90.
• I’m still hearing the crackling noise, but my audi promised me that this is not normal and we would find the cause and address it (impulse reduction is on the lowest setting).
• If the M&RIE thing proves to be useful and not a marketing gimmick, I’ll trial these receivers on the future.
• And, if everything fails, I have a 3 months money back guarantee.

Total price: 2412€ (2870 USD, 2074 Pounds).

But, anyway, these things are bleeping expensive. I hope I can teach them to do my taxes, at least.

Thanks!
I am still searching.
I hope in some days you will be able to tell us the clicking has finally disappeared

I trialed both albeit the ReSounds hadn’t come out with the M & RIE, yet. When it came to music, the ReSounds were unbeatable, they sounded amazing and music became more magical again for me, but at all other times they were unbeatable for me. For the first 10 days within an hour I would have a headache that lasted all day long, then I took 2 days off without wearing them, and after that the headaches stopped but I still found them extremely hard to use and it seemed to me the auto sound reduction for background noise like fans, was extremely slow to kick in, in the vicinity of 3 minutes to kick in. Now thats slow!! The Audiologist was great but only dealt with Danish hearing aid manufacturers like ReSound and Oticon, and felt all other hearing aids were useless, but in my testing so far it seemed almost to be the other ways around. The only exception was the Oticon More, but VA would only go for the S3 which is the lowest level in the, withe tha Paradise they went to P70, a much higher level with more options I found, with much less background noise like fans, refrigerator etc.

@sstotz said:

it seemed to me the auto sound reduction for background noise like fans, was extremely slow to kick in, in the vicinity of 3 minutes to kick in.

This is easily adjusted in the software by your audiologist.

@sstotz said:

The Audiologist was great but only dealt with Danish hearing aid manufacturers like ReSound and Oticon, and felt all other hearing aids were useless

Well with advice like this from your audiologist, it’s time to move on and find someone a bit more professional.

@sstotz said:

but VA would only go for the S3 which is the lowest level in the, withe tha Paradise they went to P70, a much higher level with more options

I always thought that the VA only dealt with the top premium models?

have you asked your audiologist if there is an upgrade for the HA operating system? I have new P90’s.

I’ll really interested in hearing other people’s comments on the P90"s so I can use mine better.

Dave
Toronto