Signia 5AX hearing aid questions

yes i know that one, if you click auto, it gets smaller and if you click on the right left or front it sets an arrow that lets zoom to the front more. mine does not work at all that setting does nothing for me.

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i have signa program fitting software i just need the noah programmer now. i’m working on that now
i think the audi did not do the sound recover very well. she turned down all the settings and did not take the settings that i have over 95db loss and move them into a lower range. i did that on the phonak fitting and that did a much better job. it changed some of the familiar sounds until i got use to the new sounds. so when i get the programmer i will rest those sounds to the lower hz. and see if ti does a better job.
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Well something is not right, it works quite well for me, as in as you change to narrow you should notice less “background chatter” you need to check how your doing this, in a bar or restaurant you need to face the person speaking to you, then narrow the beam, this does not increase or decrease gains, so don’t look for this.

@Reginald said:

I don’t have to, I have latest Connexx and Noah, plus have months of testing and fiddling behind me.

As a long time DIY’r and user of 7AX I’m thinking your not doing something quite right, while connected and programming, if your not hearing a noticeable difference between each settings,

@Reginald said:

Signias App isn’t very fast to open and changing mics every time you need to is annoying.

Once connected the App is open in the background, it seems just as quick as any other apps I’ve used(bar my Phonak, horrible user experience that one) again you shouldn’t have to be changing all the time, just in those environments that bother you otherwise for me anyway I just keep it on Autopilot ; )
And yes your right ,there’s no such thing as “smart” in HAs, they are still dumb!

@corvairbob said:

yes the focus does not do anything. yesterday i turned it on in the restaurant and focused it to the front

Well something is not right, but as I mentioned you need to have someone in front of you talking, this is when you narrow the beam and focus your attention on the speaker.

@corvairbob said:

plus with the signia when i hear words i get a buzzing in my ears for every word.

Your HAs are not set up correctly, you do need to go back to your audiology clinic and Relay your experience so they can try and sort these issues out.

@corvairbob said:

i think the audi did not do the sound recover very well. she turned down all the settings and did not take the settings that i have over 95db loss and move them into a lower range

Sounds like they did, that buzzing your talking about it’s quite possible that it’s set to aggressively.

Here’s some user guides that I think you guys need to check out, you need to get some understanding of what does what and why before just jumping in and making adjustments, so much to get right before doing this, acoustics, rationale/algorithm to use, using in-situ etc.

Connexx is the perfect fitting solution for Signia hearing aids | Signia Pro9

Connexx supports hearing aid professionals at every step. Whether you’re programming hearing aids or offering your customers individual care.

I don’t have the same issues as @corvairbob does. I do see the difference between settings and programs.
It’s just that defaults and autopilot weren’t good enough for the environments I’m in, most of the time.
I prefer to have fine-grained control over my HAs, rather than rely on auto mode, because it just isn’t smart enough imho.
And as you said, I shouldn’t have to go into app and slap it, every time it messes up.

i just got a programmer. i got the gn one and found the program to redo the firmware so it will program the phonak and signia and maybe more. so it is due to me Friday and if it works i will stop back and let you guys know. my hearing aids today were pinching my ears real good and then they stopped. it must be that automatic program that is not very good. also i understand there is a firmware update for them that is said to address that issue so maybe the programmer will allow the update, i know the cube2 would let me update phonak and the cube1 let me do a complete firmware on the moxies so i guess i will see. thanks

Ok so you got the Airlink 2, (I use this one as well) so yeah once updated it’ll program just like the Himsa Noahlink wireless, so you won’t have any problems programming any of the wireless from ReSound and just about all the later models from the manufacturer’s, Widex is a little different, but that won’t bother you as you mentioned Signia and Phonak.

ok i have the airlink 2 in front of me and i did the firmware update, that took a few tries. i had to got to noah and get 2 drivers and then it took… it is connected to my signia aids and it shows the correct serial numbers. now i went into the program and looked at the settings. this program is a bit different than the target program, but some is similar. anyway i want to move the sound recover down some. the left line is just under 3k and the right line is just about at 5k. in the target i have the left line a bit lower. and the right a bit higher. i have the left line down to 2k and the right line is close to 8k so that i can grab all that sound and i do not know where it goes but i hear good with the phonak aids. so if i can figure out how to move these lines it may take that buzzing out of my ears. then i will work on the own speech as i hear myself real good. but one step as the buzzing hurts my ears

if i can figure out how to post photos i will do some snips and post them…
thanks