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Hi, i have Oticon zircon 1 Minirite
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In left ha, after 1-2 weeks of using a New receiver (100 then 105 power), i feel sound is compressed especially in loud and noise environment such as echo
I replaced receiver 4 times and switch to 105 power and still

oticon suppliers finally said that receiver has received high power supply that may lead to burn out receiver,.so they reduced software of ha to less than my actual need.
Is Their interpretation Realistic?
Is there anyone know about this?
What is the alternative solutions / ha bte from oticon?

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Yes: the 100dB receiver does suffer from saturation burnout. Which is possibly a receiver drive weld failure. I’m not 100% on exactly which component receivers are used, but I’ve run into issues with both the Own and the models from Oticon/Bernafon that have failed like this.

@Moataz_Smadi I am not an expert, but @Um_bongo is one the best who can advise you, but again, not sure if your is within the last 6 months or from 2016?
Do you have healthcare system in your country, you could check if they can provide you with better hearing aids.

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Potentially you could get a better hearing aids, but again I know nothing about MENA or Jordan.
Bear in mind that Xceed is quiet old now, and perhaps Oticon will launch a new Xceed in few years, who knows.
Xceed is quiet big and chunky, so might need to try it before you decide to get one.

In reply to @Moataz_Smadi

Obviously the power aid above is an option: you could just go with the original aid and accept you’d occasionally get a blown receiver or probably better still: get the aids fitted without so much gain applied to the 2-4KHz area - it’s potentially a dead-spot anyway and will likely give you more distortion than the adjacent areas.

I’m not saying to shut the aid off there but you could just wind it back to a flat line (1.5-6KHz) across the dip (unless that’s a conductive loss). You’ll potentially lose some of the HF in that area, but the reduction in saturation (whistling), distortion and the aid hitting the limits is likely to be worth the trade off.

Similar but not the same, it’s called SpeechRescue and it’s a ‘copy and keep’ approach. The gain is still applied at the high frequencies (so it won’t resolve this burnout issue unless we reduce the gain where @Um_bongo already suggested) but the targeted frequency sounds are also presented at a lower frequency band to allow you access to that information.

In reply to @Moore8

@Moore8 thanks, but i feel first-second week the sound is normal, then i started to feel this situation
In most cases

So why first week is normal, that’s why think about burning out, is still around speech rescue?

Sorry my English is not fluent, i hope the information is understood clearly…

No it doesn’t explain the issue, I think @Baltazard was suggesting that it could help you hear those high frequency sounds if we remove some of the gain in that area to prevent receiver burnout.

We don’t know if SpeechRescue is active on your set up currently - it’s not a default setting. The Audiologist has to switch it on in the software.

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