Phonak Target 7.3.1 Volume Behavior

Well shoot, that stinks… The factory volume range is pretty minimal, the volume is still way too loud when .on a construction sight. How annoying

Do you know if target does an in-situ audiogram like I did on the oticon software? I’m not seeing anything? Just want to try it to see what Phonak suggests

@anon54276456

Ah yea that’s fair enough.

I can stand next to a road drill and not find it too loud. I guess I’m lucky. My sister finds it too loud tho.

There’s only +/-5db adjustment… I can barely even notice a difference in volume. Doesn’t make sense.

@anon54276456

Each volume click is 2 dB for the actual volume.

The phone volume when on a call is different.

@anon54276456 said:

Normal setting the volume is perfect. But when a guy is using a jack hammer next to me at work it’s too loud. There’s not enough gain reduction in the volume setting to get comfortable.

Create a manual program that reduces the volume more. I have one set @ -20dB that I switch into when working around loud machines. It is actually my first selected program after auto (1 press).

@anon54276456

I just tested my Marvels, for me it’s 5 clicks up so 10 dB and 5 clicks down from middle so 10 dB lower.

I can’t hear anything if I go to the lowest volume.

Yeah you were right. What I did was created another program like the other guy said, I went 15db lower for the baseline, and that gets me to a comfortable volume with room to spare. Just annoying I have to switch programs to aquire that. My old aids I had -20db of wiggle room on the one aid because my loss isn’t balanced and that was perfect. The -10 db just isn’t enough on my one side. My old aids I could turn the volume all the way down at work because of the background noise and still communicate and hear because everyone else was raising their voices to accommodate for the noise when the carpenters are framing, cutting steel studs and wood, iron workers torquing steel beams, plumbers testing pipes with air compressors, sprinkler fitters cutting iron pipe with sawzalls, drywallers using their screwguns, the list goes on and on. I could just turn down the aids while a normal person wears ear plugs or ear muffs. It is an advantage in my opinion because I can even mute them and stream music and no one even knows if the situation is safe.

I still can’t figure out a solution to when I get an incoming text on my phone, the volume decreases a few decibels while the Bluetooth connects and alerts me. It would be nice if that didn’t happen. I like hearing my alerts but no at the expense of the volume altering upon any incoming data.

I found it, so do I set it to 0db?

Yes

I did and that didn’t change anything

@anon54276456

Hopefully someone else will come a long with answers.

On my Marvels, I don’t seem to have the issue once my Mics were set to 0 dB.