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Hi there! When you say hybrid, do you mean a combination of acoustic amplification for low frequencies and cochlear for the rest? If so, then yes, I had this for a while and it worked great for being able to determine musical pitch. I went from cochlear only, to hybrid, then back to cochlear only (because my low frequency hearing disappeared entirely). The hybrid device was a bit more complicated and more fragile than a straight cochlear processor though, although probably no more fragile than a standard BTH hearing aid.

I have the N7 and wore the EAS attachment for 15 months. My residual was preserved during the operation. Then I lost a couple of chunks to my high frequencies/residual hearing rendering the EAS attachment useless to me. I’m now fully electric and don’t miss the EAS at all.

If your talking about the L24 hybrid array, here I Australia Cochlear don’t use it. Simply because they had far too many failures, and people were needing to be reimplanted with a longer array. .

I believe the theory with the L24 is that it probably doesn’t disturb the still-intact lower frequency part of the cochlear. I have a standard length implant but my low frequency was preserved. Hence the hybrid electrical/acoustic for a while. Then the low frequency disappeared for a reason nobody knows, so went full electrical. Lost ability to discriminate pitch accurately, but the device is so much easier to manage now. No, didn’t get anything reimplanted as I already had standard length implant.

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