Oticon Real

@prodigyplace and @tmetcalf89 and other prospective Real reviewers, just a suggestion: when you actually get your new Real HAs in hand (in ear?) maybe start new threads to use to post your individual reviews and impressions. This thread is already over 350 posts long and it takes a lot of scrolling to get to the latest posts. I, and I’m sure many others here, are really looking forward to your reviews. Thank you.

Click on the 362 number in the blue and then move that dial that I’ve highlighted in the picture to quickly get to the latest post. Much quicker that way.

@ziploc

Ahh, OK, now I get it. Thank you @Zebras .

@ziploc said:

you actually get your new Real HAs in hand (in ear?)

I actually had a set in hand. We compared and they are the exact same size as the More. Unfortunately one was defective so I am back to the More.

I’m a first time hearing aid user with mild High Frequency loss. For my first hearing aids, I completed a 30 day trial of the Oticon More 1’s a week ago.

I liked the Mores, but toward the end of the trial, I heard about the Oticon Real HAs, so I decided to try the Real 1s, which I’ve used for a week now.

Concerning the new features, so far, the handling feature of the Reals doesn’t seem any different than the Mores, which is a big surprise to me. If anything, I think the Reals are a bit more sensitive, leading to a bit more static with handling. I notice this because I take my glasses off and on many times everyday.

The Sudden Sound reduction feature seems to work well in reducing sudden loud sounds within my house that were previously louder with the Mores. I don’t have enough outdoor experience yet to give an opinion to how well this feature works outdoors. Within the next couple of weeks, I hope to visit one specific outdoor setting that has a lot of sudden noises, that the Mores did not handle so well.

I haven’t been in windy conditions that would put wind reduction feature to the test.

Overall, I liked the Mores and would have bought them, if I didn’t learn of the Reals, which I like so far. I seem to hear more sounds with the Reals than I did with the Mores. The sounds I hear from both seem very natural.

A good way to test the wind reduction feature is to drive with your car window open.

Not a game changer is an improvement, I take it. Iterative.

Thanks! But I’m 44. Using disposable batteries since I was 3. They are a legitimate need. And there are too many variables and ways things can go wrong with rechargeables that I am never switching. And swearing off Phonak forever for their stupidity.

Why do hearing people get access to instant hearing but we don’t? I call discrimination.

And I am not staying awake for three hours in silence with no way to communicate (and no, I don’t sign) because my hearing aids need to charge. That is an unfair and unreasonable expectation of hearing aid users on Phonak’s side.

I have been wearing aids for about 20 years for most of that time ITE aids. I complained about getting rechargeable aids at first. You see as a veteran with a hearing loss due to military reasons, my aids are from the USA Veterans Administration. I do have my choice of hearing aids, but for the last 6 years I have had the pleasure to have an audiologist that i completely trust to know my hearing requirements. I have been wearing Oticon aids for a little over 13 years and I am completely satisfy with the Oticon sound. Sure I ahave tried other brands but end up back with Oticon aids. I am 76 years old and very active for my age. My wife and I still take extended trips towing our RV to places of interest, i am also and advent hiker, pencil art person that does mostly coloring books, and i list to audiobooks and also listen to books by way of text to speech. This year i will have listened or read over an hundred and ten books. My aids, Real1,and my backup aids the More1 aids, are both rechargeable, i never travel without both sets. My aids are paired to my Samsung S23 phone and by way of the connect clip to my Samsung tablet and my Fire Tablet. But lately i have been using my Bose over the ear headphones with Bluetooth for most of my listening because they are convent and they seem to enrich the sound even more than straight streaming to my aids.

@codergeek2015 said:

The fact that Phonak refuses to support disposable battery-option CROS in their latest hearing aids is the most ridiculous decision I’ve ever seen in a long time, and shows their lack of commitment to their long-time users.

I can’t comment on Phonak’s practices, but most other mfgs offer the choice of recharge or disposable.
Most rechargeable HA’s can go 16 + hours without a charge, and if running low, can be topped off in 15 to 30 minutes for a couple more hours.
Pop them in charger a bedtime, and they’re ready to go when you get up.
Of course, it’s your choice, and you may wish to check disposables from Oticon or Signia, etc.

@codergeek2015 said:

Why do hearing people get access to instant hearing but we don’t? I call discrimination.

I’m puzzled by this, what are you saying?

Thanks I have a remote mic. And the companion app can do that somewhat. Just curious if my right aid can could transfer that input to my left HA on a separate program.

@mstrmac said:

Just curious if my right aid can could transfer that input to my left HA on a separate program.

The Oticons use Binaural communication between Left & right by default, so yes.

My HCP says that no, the left hearing cannot receive the input that the right aid receives on an individual program.

Turning down the left aid and turning up the right aid to hear a passenger to my right defeats the benefits of binaural hearing for me with my profound loss.

Unless my HCP is wrong. Prove her wrong if you can.

Thanks.

I think there might be a misunderstanding of terminology here. @mstrmac 's “the input that the right aid receives” probably refers to the actual sound input that the right hearing aid picks up and processes to be presented to the receiver. On the other hand, @flashb1024 's reference to the binaural broadband is not regarding the actual sound data input, but just the binaural communication of the control parameters. For example, if you click on the volume down button on the left aid, the right aid would pick up this “control” command up, too, and goes down on volume just the same way.