Philips HearLink 9050 to hit Costco soon? With similar tech to Oticon Intent?

@JEArt said:

I am new like you. I have 9040 and just found out that my Costco just got the 9050 in.
I hate the audiologists at my Costco.

If you live in a major metropolitan area where there are multiple Costco stores, consider just returning the 9040 at that store and buy the 9050 or one of the other brands like Jabra or Rexton at a different Costco store.

@Angel said:

According to my audiologist at Costco, they will not be available in disposable battery form.

A charger is just one more thing I’d have to haul around when traveling; but I may buy the 9050s anyway. My 5-year-old 9010s still work, but I’d really like to have significantly better speech-in-noise performance.

Return the 9040 and get your money back ASAP, and go to another Costco if possible.

The Philips fitting software has a troubleshooting section. For a tiny complaint, the software says to decrease the gain for the 50, 65, and 80 db SPL for the high frequencies by 2 dB.

The Resound (Jabra) fitting software makes a distinction between female and male voices for a tiny complaint.

For male voices, you reduce the high frequency gain. For female voices with tiny complaint, you increase the low and mid frequencies.

There are probably other adjustments that can be made.

Frankly from your description, the hearing aid fitter doesn’t seem to know how to adjust your hearing aids. Go to another Costco if possible. A different hearing aid fitter may make all the difference.

The downside, is that Costco hearing centers are so busy that they too often don’t spend enough time getting folks hearing aids dialed in.

That being said, I would always recommend going to Costco due to the long trial period, low price, and high quality hearing aids.

You don’t want to go back to the 9040’s, but 9050’s is a new ball game.

I am walking around the store in 9050s. First appointment of the day and they had them all ready for me. A nice surprise.

20 minutes later…

These are better. I could easily hear folks talking despite the loud air handler noises from above.

Doing it. They’re ordering for me. Coming back next week for the fitting and to return the 9040s.

If anyone can report how the 9050s compare to the Rexton Reach ones?
I’ve go the Reach, like them but the tinny music sound and that you can’t adjust much yourself with the app.
Curious if the Philips would be better?
Thanks

You need to go DIY project if you want to improve this, the app is very limited compared to the Connexx software.

How? Is there a tutorial how to tinker with it?

Yes of course, there’s plenty of useful information/guides available. Head on over to the DIY forum.

@pmc1978 said:

One more reason to choose Rexton over Philips.

Why do you say that?

Isn’t the Philips software more limited than Connexx?

By easy, I also meant access to more customization.

@pmc1978

@tenkan is talking about the App on a cell phone and not to do with the software.

@pmc1978 said:

Isn’t the Philips software more limited than Connexx?

By easy, I also meant access to more customization.

I’m not sure that more customization makes it easier to use or even better. There might be some benefit for a musician.

However, I wouldn’t put down the Philips software as being not good. Philips hearing aids and it’s program just use AI to accomplish a lot of things.

@Zebras said:

@tenkan is talking about the App on a cell phone and not to do with the software.

I see, thanks for the clarification!

@user990 said:

However, I wouldn’t put down the Philips software as being not good. Philips hearing aids and it’s program just use AI to accomplish a lot of things.

I mixed up the Philips mobile app with the Philips fitting software.
Apparently, the Philips mobile app is more limited than the Rexton mobile app.