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New KS 10 and everyone now has a Lisp

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I just upgraded from my KS 9s to the KS 10s. Teh issue is everyone has a Lisp, even on TV. It does not matter what program.
Has anyone else encountered this?
Thank you

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Yes. I had that immediately. Not good when you know the spouse doesn’t have a lisp.
The fitter adjusted it out over the internet on my phone. Pretty cool.
When I got connected to the self-adjusting I saw some settings for that specifically. But I’m no expert.

I’m not certain what they called it as I haven’t been in to self-adjusting for a while. Do you have the stuff to do self-adjusting? The fitter can do this all online if not. As they did for me.

I do not have the items needed for self-adjusting.
I went back to the fitter and all he did was reduce the high frequencies, which has not corrected the problem.
I thought I remembered on the KS 9s there was a back screen of adjustments that had the lisp option.

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Told you what needs to be adjusted. The Sound Recover. Quite common for it to cause a lisp if set too high.

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Sound Recover can be made stronger/weaker or turned completely off. Typically patients who are having issues with sounds sounding “too lispy” are ones that are having processing issues with sound recover.

Should add, the KS10 is basically a Phonak Audeo P90 RT with different Mic openings.

FYI, I also noticed a lisp at first also from my KS 10’s (rec’d in May 2021), especially from my wife. I have not noticed it for several months. Either something was fixed or I got used to it. I did not mention this to the Costco fitters.

One positive thing I’ve noticed, I can now hear the trill from calls of Spotted Towhee birds. Before the 10’s (with 7’s and 5’s) I could hear only the beginning 2 or 3 loud chirps from those birds.

In reply to @hntr59

When I had my Phonak aids for profound loss I needed SR 2 adjusted for this exact problem frequently. My eventually found my “sweet spot”, where the lisping sounds were fixed. It’s definitely a easy fix but to find the exact balance between using SR 2 and lisping sounds might take a couple of adjustments. Well it did with my profound loss.

.That does sound like “Sound Recover” is doing its job. I have learned to just put up with the sibilance and lisping as the price I pay for being able to hear those long lost high frequencies. There are adjustments that can be made to lessen the issue. My high frequency loss begins at such a low frequency that most high frequency sounds sound alike to me. The frequencies are so compressed,but they are there.

I assumed so and your correct
I’ve have used Oticon Epoq, Alta, and currently Opn very lisp when Opn frequently lowering on

I’m afraid I can’t help with the exact setting that needs to be changed, but this is something that can be managed through the programming. I had this when I got my Phonak trial hearing aids, everyone sounded like Sean Connery. Took a couple of visits to my audiologist to get rid of it fully.

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