Two Months With Lumity 90 after 3 Years With Marvel 90

Agreed 100% @prodigyplace… But, I feel the manufacturers would need to play ball, which is perhaps questionable… It’s not in their best interests to increase the longevity of rechargeable aids, and though it might be marginally better for the environment, it doesn’t increase their sales… They want to regulate sales, and much the same as Apple , they make it difficult to swop out Lifepo4 batteries, by making aids obsolete due to battery degradation… IMO, it’s a win, win, win for the manufacturers, who’s only interest is increased revenue, and that is the bottom line! As always, YMMV… Cheers Kev

@auntpie

thanks. Predict the same skill was used setting up both models of hearing aids, and that really makes your comment valuable for me.

Dave

I cast my vote for rechargeables my story im sticking to it.

Regarding the sudden blasts of noise when in noisy environments with Lumity - I have indeed had the same experience. The blast of noise is more than startling it is painful. I have not found all the sources of the problem, but switching off all notifications on my galaxy s10e phone has significantly reduced the problem.
I now suffer the blasts mainly in the car when using the “speech in loud noise” programme which seems to suddenly switch to “auto” for a few seconds than back again.

No, It is, actually. Autosense understands the type of environment you’re in surprisingly well and switches automatically based on that.

I remain doubtful that my aids change from auto to another set program when they detect a change in my environment.
If they did, then they should change from auto to speech in loud noise when I am driving and chatting to my passenger - or when in a noisy restaurant with friends.

But they don’t - I have to do it manually.

Am I missing something?

You can check it by clicking in the app on “Adjust program” when you’re in the Autosense program.

After clicking, you will see on top of the screen what actual mode Autosense has set you in.

I need help with an upcoming audiologist appointment to adjust to Lumity Life 90, which I’ve had for about 6 weeks. I’ve been happy with my Marvel 90s for 3 years. I have not been able to hear speech as well with my new Lumity aids. Compared to the Marvels, I’m getting substantially more volume but it seems to make speech harder to hear in general. The louder parts of speech seem tinny and to drown out the softer syllables and sounds so it takes me much more concentration. I’m also getting much more background noise – e.g., my husband cutting onions in an adjoining room. I have tried customizing the program a bit with the iphone app, e.g. reducing overall volume, reducing bass or treble (I have cookie cutter loss but recent high frequency decline), increasing noise cancellation, but I can’t seem to find something that works as well as my Marvels. I have had many brands of high quality hearing aids over 35 years and I’ve never had this problem (though that was with a different audio clinic). I have custom earmolds. Due to a mistake with the speaker my audiologist had to use my Marvel speakers with my new Lumity aids but I still had the same experience. The Lumity aids do improve my understanding of speech when I’m streaming audiobooks, etc. over bluetooth and speech is better in the car than with the Marvels.

What can I say to my audiologist to explain my problem and get the right adjustments so the Lumity aids work better for me?

I would say you exact words! If he’s a good one, he will understand.

Meanwhile Try to do it yourself: edit the Auto program by selecting clarity or speech and by moving to the right the Noise Reduction toggle.

Washroom at work has an extremely noisy electric hand dryer.

I checked before I started. Calm mode.
Turned the hand dryer on. Checked by going to the adjust program from Autosense. A few seconds later it showed speech in noisy environment. the app display stayed. After the hand dryer shut down I checked again from auto sense. Adjusted the program…it showed "Calm mode’ again.

Hope this helps.

DaveL

Sounds reasonable, going DIY is a good idea for a lot of people, you have the experience with how HAs sound and preform so a DIY project would be easier, just don’t forget you’ll need the Noahlink wireless programming device and it’s a good idea to read the user guides, you can find a lot more information about this just by clicking on @pvc avatar.

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I’m Italian and I bought Lumity online from Auzen in Switzerland.

I’ve paid a pair of L90 2800 euros (both).
The service is good and their audiologists are absolutely competent (for remote fitting).

You can DM me if you need more info.

I have the same issue and thanks to forum users I realized that it was caused by audible notifications, so I’ve turned most of them off.

I’m glad they are working out for you. I’m in the same situation except that I’m replacing Starkey Evolv AI aids with the Phonaks. Neither of them are perfect, but I’m satisfied so far with the Lumitys. Neither one of them does a good job at ameliorating wind noise, which is a big deal where I live (Idaho) because the wind blows a lot. I was fortunate in that I get my hearing care through the VA due to a service-connected hearing loss, and they also gave me a Roger On microphone, a companion mic, a remote control and a TV streamer. All of the assistive devices work well and I’m thankful for the VA providing them to me.