Wire length/where hearing should sit

MntPhotog, I actually think the wire on your aids looks FINE - but I’m no expert. Mainly I think you got an awesome fit for the blasted curve of the wire, which nearly everyone will agree is IMPOSSIBLE to re-shape into a curve that fits one’s ear perfectly.

For many years, my audi insisted on putting long wires on my aids - hoping that would help seat the speaker deep into my ear canal and I’d hear as best as possible. However, it is a fact that no matter how long/short the wire, those speakers are going to work their way backwards OUT of the canal if you wear silicone tips. Chewing, talking, articulating, all that is going to make the tip slip and slide out till one nearly has feedback. Didn’t matter when I had long wires, they’d slip and slide out till I could hang a shirt on that goofy wire that stuck like a loop outside my ear.

Now I’ve got shorter wires, so even as the speaker works its way backwards out of my ear canal, it never looks GOOFY. I have resigned myself to pushing the speakers in 100s of times a day - like pushing glasses up all day.

I’m also active outdoors and have hat & sunglasses or reading glasses to contend with. My aids are positioned maybe 1/16th of an inch further back than yours? But I still get LOTS of hair rustling, and as a woman, my hair is not going to be any shorter. I want to scream with annoyance when that hair rustles, but all I can do is lift the hair up and hope it won’t settle on top of the mic.

It’s a challenge, but from the photo you post, you have a FABULOUSLY fitting wire!

P.S. I am not able to wear custom molds cuz I’m allergic to the material, so the softer silicone domes is all I can work with.