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What hearing aid is best at Costco?

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Do any of you ever sit back and reread what you’re writing? Certainly you have the time because you obviously have an excess amount of time on your hands.

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In reply to @janofh

Now I understand better. Thanks so much. What you’re saying makes complete sense.

Message boards can unfortunately leave a gap in understanding. Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt. Much appreciated.

Boy these Costco threads certainly do seem to rub a lot of people the wrong way. Someone recently said Costco hearing aids are locked meaning you can only get them adjusted at Costco and can’t take them to say an independent audiologist a year later for further adjustment. And as far as I’m concerned the hearing aid sold at Costco is the one you walk out with stuck in your ear

@hass5744 said:

Someone recently said Costco hearing aids are locked meaning you can only get them adjusted at Costco and can’t take them to say an independent audiologist a year later for further adjustment.

Not quite true, only “some” are locked, mostly the older models, all the latest models sold at the moment are unlocked, it could of course easily change in the future.

Thanks for the quick response. I was just curious about that. It wasn’t meant as a knock on Costco. So thanks for cleaning it up

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@GuitarGuy69: No offense, but I don’t think many folks would appreciate a guitar pickup discussion here. There are other places. I just introduced guitars here to illustrate a point about hearing.

[This place is for whether you can even hear your pickups! :joy:]

Not much difference between guitar brands and models, and pickups. Most people don’t know a Telecaster, Strat, Gibson, or Gretsch, etc.
But these fine folks will skip over non-relevant posts and go on to the next one.
I think both of us stepped over an invisible line. But we don’t need a censor to slap our wrists. I didn’t know you were the moderator here. You could have said it a little more relevant to the non-musicians.

Agree.
You can give me the best high faluten most expensive hearing aids on the planet and I will still hear distorted speach in my left ear.
Hearing aids can not correct nerve damage.

This horse has been well beaten but let me just add that my understanding from Costco was that the 9030 is made by Oticon. Perhaps a more accurate statement might be that it’s made by one of the Demant companies for Philips. In my case, I was interested in that handle music well. The 9030s do a pretty good job with that (as do Oticons and probably other Demant HAs).

I was never under the impression that they were rebranded anything. There is no doubt that they are based on Demant experience and technology but it seems that they were designed for a specific niche and for the price, they work very well.

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