Resound Omnia vs Phonak Lumity

Hey @Ureout

Not sure I deserved your salty comment. I’ve spent quite a bit of time helping other people on this forum by posting my own very detailed personal observations. I think it’s a given that everything EVERYONE posts here are their own personal observations and experiences. I don’t think anyone is confused by that and most people know that what works for one person’s hearing loss and lifestyle might not work for another person. That’s why everyone should find a good audiologist who can help them test many different hearing aids and then figure out what works best for them.

I will say that I’m sorta sick and tired of the way a few people here manage to ruin every useful discussion thread by diverting the topic into an argument about the evils of rechargeable batteries. If you don’t like rechargeable hearing aids and they don’t fit in with your own lifestyle…don’t buy them. There are lots of other options.

Just to clarify on my own personal observations about the battery life of Lumity…

I’m a busy executive in the IT industry. I get up at 7 am and put on my hearing aids and rarely take them out until midnight when I go to sleep (17 hours). I typically stream 4 hours a day during the business week and quite a bit less on the weekends. I stream to my iPhone, my work laptop (using Microsoft Teams and Zoom), my Peloton exercise bike and my TV via the Phonak TV Connector. On heavy streaming days (usually 2-3 times a week), the batteries just barely last until the end of the day so I typically drop them into the charger for 20 minutes when I shower after a workout. On low streaming days, my Lumity hearing aids are at about 20% when I finally take them out of my ears at midnight.

The ideal setup would be a battery that gave the Lumity hearing aids the same run time as Omnia. Omnia is able to last 30 hours because it utilizes Apple’s MFi protocol which consumes less power than Bluetooth Classic. That being said, the Lumity hearing aids work so much better for me than any other hearing aids that I have tried that the slight inconvenience of having to top up the charge for 20-30 minutes a few times a week is inconsequential. I buy hearing aids to hear better and Lumity gives me a huge lift with speech comprehension. That’s really the only thing that is important to me and many other hearing aid users.

Make sense?

Jordan

@JordanK said:

I will say that I’m sorta sick and tired of the way a few people here manage to ruin every useful discussion thread by diverting the topic into an argument about the evils of rechargeable batteries.

I think since battery technology is an important feature difference between Lumity and Omnias and the thread was started as Omnia vs. Lumity features, it’s pretty hard to escape battery runtime, long-term battery lifetime, etc., as a differentiator and say that the only thing that matters is sound quality. I agree with you that posts should avoid talking down other posters, although, unfortunately, that sort of thing happens in a number of threads on this forum from time to time. Thanks for all the great information you’ve provided about the Lumity. I found it very helpful.

Thanks! I knew you’d chosen the Omnias but wasn’t positive why. I was thinking it was battery related, but wasn’t sure. Thanks for reading my mind.

Btw, about batteries (sorry, Jordan ): I realized that my Lumities use more battery in loud environments (when the Speech in Loud Noise mode activates) than if I stream over Bluetooth. Yesterday, spending 5 hours in a very noisy pub sucked up 40% of the charge.

I agree that rechargeable batteries are a great disadvantage with the Lumity but I love them anyway as my priority is speech understanding in any situation. And they charge up very quickly, as a 15 minutes charge can give you back 20% of juice.
So I’m not so worried about battery ageing, because getting the habit of charging them 20 minutes would give them enough power to last for the rest of the day when they’ll be very old.

The solution is to mute whoever you don’t want to hear from. Click on your avatar in upper right corner. Then the little person icon, then Preferences, then move to far left screen and click on Users. Mute whoever you want. Modrators have taken a pretty hands off approach so this is the best option.

I put one poster on ignore and selected a timeframe of forever. It’s so nice not to see those posts that litter just about every thread.

@Corpore said:

I dare to write to some (especially one) who only know how to write offtopic, hate the Phonak brand and worse, launch unfounded accusations against those who wear Phonak or who express their opinions objectively. I’m sick of them. Is there really no moderator to warn them? Every day one is looking for attention and followers for his brand. In almost every topic, he praises his brand (even if it has some flaws) and for him the other brands are nothing. Unbelievable! Because of people like him, this wonderful forum can lose many users.

Thank you for speaking your mind. Spoken very well. I feel the same way. It’s ashamed this member derails and tarnishes this fine forum. So many come here for unbiased information about hearing aids and hearing loss.

I too wonder how moderation allows it to continue.

As mentioned the ignore function is available but that’s not the right answer for those looking for a forum to learn from. The new members just don’t know the difference.

Thanks again for sharing.

Resound omnia 30 hour definitely doesn’t last all day, it actually last only like 18-20 hours before i hear the battery chimes if i am streaming for 8 hours but it is time to make my bed and go to bed. but hey it reminds me to go to bed lol

@jay_man2 said:

It’s so nice not to see those posts that litter just about every thread.

and you get through a thread so much more quickly.

@AbramBaileyAuD said:

I’ve received some PM’s and messaged Jim

There’s more than one Jim in the forum and in this instance, the “Jim” wasn’t me, but I certainly am the “Jim” who’s posted the most in this thread!

I think one thing going on in the forum besides individual styles of writing and personalities, etc., is there are hearing aid “camps.” Folks spend a lot of money on a particular hearing aid and can get very emotionally (and financially!) attached to the particular brand and model they selected. So whatever brand and model, if someone feels someone else is slighting “their brand,” they sometimes get stirred up, as evidenced by someone just a bit higher up in the thread feeling that Phonak is being out-and-out attacked on the forum: Resound Omnia vs Phonak Lumity - #498 by Corpore, whereas actually the discussion just above that on “writing style” had to do with one poster rudely questioning the consistency of another poster’s accounts and seemed unrelated to any particular hearing aid per se.

Perhaps the best thing to do in discussions is to avoid ad hominem (and ad feminem?) attacks on other posters, and also, when extolling the brand of hearing aid you love, avoid emphatically putting down other brands in comparison because some people may construe such writing as an ad hominem attack on “their brand,” as evidenced by the link I provided in the just previous paragraph about how Phonak is being attacked on the forum.

@ssa said:

LE Audio is coming and it will destroy the monopoly that sonova has rn

I do agree with you on this statement but the hands free phone calls has been a great feature from Phonak. This along with other technology has helped Phonak do well.

I sure hope Bluetooth LE Audio will open the door for more HA manufacturers to have this true hands free phone calls.

@Raudrive said:

hands free phone calls has been a great feature

AND Phonak is one of the few (if not the only one) that has made hands free for Galaxy/Android available. It is the 2nd most important thing about them, in my humble opinion!
Dan

@danhuddleston said:

It is the 2nd most important thing about them, in my humble opinion!

YES! I admit to being absolutely unwilling to go back to aids that don’t have this. Right now I have KS9s. When they give up the ghost, if there’s still nothing like them at Costco, I’ll beg, borrow, and steal to get brand name Phonak. I love the 9s anyway because they’re so light and really do have me hearing pretty well. But the descriptions of the Lumity aids have me envious.

I would like to think that Phonak has been working on a chip modification that will handle both Bluetooth Audio on BT 5.2 and the even newer Auracast codec which will require BT 5.3.

If they were not developing this modification they would fall well behind other manufacturers when the BT codec LC3 is added and enables direct connection with Android mobiles and tv. Both Phonaks BT classic format and and BT LE can co-exist on the same module.