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The Airpod Pro was what I thought of straight away. No hearing aid is going to match it for noise cancellation- or sound quality I expect. And if it’s set up with their , they should be able to get by if they need to converse with someone on their walk.

I’m not sure if this is helpful, but I’ll chime in anyway, since I was wearing an earlier version of the same brand. With my Signia Pure hearing aids, which required the EasyTek to stream, it was wonderful at automatically adjusting the volume when there was noise while streaming podcasts. So if I was walking down a busy street, as a car passed the volume of streamed sound would increase. There was no need to do some of the things people are suggesting, like turning down or off the mics. I think environmental awareness is important while out on the street, and I wouldn’t want to be without the ability to hear what was going on around me.

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I have Stylettos 7 AX, which I self program and initially they sounded horribly when streaming.
As already mentioned, you need domes/sleeves more on the closed side.
Secondly, there is an option, which is on by deafault, to auto-adjust streaming volume (and it’s terrible), and right beside it a one which allows you to set how much of the outside (meaning mics) you want to have mixed in (70% by default). On top of that you can have a profile set up to reduce noise from the outside.
You won’t get crazy bass with but I’m shocked how much clarity, sound separation and locality I’m getting.

I’ve got a new phone which has 5 and android 13, and tested streaming with it. At 80% volume and with Noisy Environment profile lowered a bit, it easily drowns any background noise, windy weather and busy road, on the train, etc.

Thanks to all who have offered advise and opinions.
It has become obvious to me that my audiologist did not do any fitting beyond the bare minimum “first fit” configuration. In particular, she did not enable Adaptive Streaming, which would likely have gone a long way towards making my functional for streaming on the street.
I will take this up with her in my first followup appointment in 2 weeks.

Adaptive Streaming is ON by default, you want it off most likely, otherwise, from my experience it will set loudness below what you want.
And yes, most of the audios do bare minimum, I had my done in 5db increments. After I redid it myself in 1db increments [which takes more time obviously] the sound so much better.

yes I use phonak, mobile app…but I don’t see any microphone attenuation in mobile app

@michael1 said:

ambient balance

for a picture see here

Phonak App - Ambient Balance
[IMG_1386] [IMG_1387] I have both the Sky M70 and Naida P70 from Phonak. The Sky has the use the Junior myPhonak and obviously the Naida can use the normal myPhonak. I can’t figure out for the life of me, how to adjust the ambient balance towards HA Mics on the Junior myPhonak? The hearing aids buttons can adjust it but I can’t work out how to do it on the App. I don’t really use the App but I do like to adjust towards HAs Mics when listening to things instead of putting wear on my HA butt…

I wouldnt stream on the street. You need to be aware. In any other loud environment, mute the hearing aid mics.

In reply to @Gsk

@Gsk
While streaming, you normally also can use the buttons to adjust the balance between environment and streaming source. UP: streaming source louder than environment. DOWN: vice versa.
This is the setting by default. Your audi might have disablef this, if it does not work.

Right, Phonaks handle this very well (either using the buttons or the app). In the default setting I can both listen to a TV streamer or, when outside, to podcasts (over Bluetooth) and still converse with people around me when needed. Since the HAs are programmed not to amplify loud noise (like traffic) I rarely need to override this balance.

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