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Phonak Lumity Best Settings for Streaming Music?

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My wife just purchased some SoundCore ear buds and I tried them on some music. I was surprised to hear how much richer the base is on her devices. I covered my aids with my fingers to make sure no sound was “escaping” and it made no difference as far as the bass quality was concerned. So my question is: Using the myPhonak app, what would you suggest for some better quality music listening using YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.? Thanks much.

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Thank you. I had never heard of ActiveVent. I’m mandated by my insurance to only go to HearUSA and while they do provide Phonak, they’re not especially well-versed in fitting them, or knowlegable about things like ActiveVent. But I’ll ask them about it.
I’m still looking for some help in setting up a custom program for music within the myPhonak App. Anyone? Thanks.

You can have your audiologist raise the bass in the music program. The Lumity has all the bass you could ever want. If you are not getting it, it is an adjustment issue, or a fit issue.

Fìrst of all depending on your hearing profile there may be no amplification of the low frequencies when streaming. This mode may benefit from a custom profile. Hearing Aids generally don’t generate any sound below 100Hz because of their small size. Finally open receivers adversely affects the low frequencies (just pull out normal earbuds even just a bit to hear how bad it gets!). So if you favor pop/rock music with heavy thumps you may be better off with good earbuds and adaptive amplification of the affected higher frequencies.

As long as I know, they perform around the same with music steaming.

I’m very happy with the quality of music steaming on my Lumity but I have custom moulds with 1mm vent…

i go to outings alot and have trouble understanding ppl in noisy enviroments, to get the best of both wourld, would you recommend the lumity’s + a roger on 3?

Yeah, I have the same setup and it’s pretty good, if you don’t mind showing off a “strange“ device like the Roger is…

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My Step Mum has just gone from Phonak M70 to Phonak L70 and she finds everything regarding the L70, much better than the M70.

She’s very impressed with the StereoZoom 2.0 and Dynamic Noise Cancellation. Noticeable difference.

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i’ve read that the lumity is far better sound quality (streaming) then any other HA

I’d take that with a pinch of salt, where did you read that, hearing is a very subjective experience and what works for one doesn’t mean for everyone, it’s always best to trial/test and make your own personal opinion with what is “better or best” there’s a big difference between Lumity and the Sphere which is , are you able to get to a Costco to try the Sennheiser’s which are rebranded Lumity platform.

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What’s good about the Lumity, just like any Phonak after the Marvel, is that they use the standard Bluetooth protocol, which makes them compatible with all devices and not just phones. Plus, the connection is more reliable and the bandwidth is larger, so yeah, streaming quality takes advantage of it.

So, it’s not that Phonak HAs have a better streaming quality compared to other manufactures, it’s just that they use a better protocol. Which obviously makes a difference.

Now, with the new Bluetooth LE standard being used by Oticon and all the others, things are going to be more equal across all manufacturers.

It’ll be better by far, although it does seem that there’s some more work to do done in getting every manufacturer to roll it out, LE Bluetooth is used by all the major manufacturers including Apple, and LEA are too different things, BLE has been around since classic 4.2 so this is why it’ll connect to just about anything, latency is the biggest let down that people notice most, LEA will put this issue to rest and no specific accessories will be needed (for I mean)

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