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Resound - going from quattro to nexia?

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has anyone here upgraded from quattro to nexia?

i’m wondering about your experiences and whether you felt there was a significant difference, especial regarding the mic in ear technology.

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There’s a few posts already on this, seems most regard it as a worthwhile upgrade, but as in all these types of situations, only you’ll know for sure, is it possible to get a trial period from your local clinics.

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most

thanks. realise the only way to find out is to trial, but would only do so if it was a significant change. too old for all the hassle otherwise.

did a search but didn’t find anything directly relevant?

anyway, thanks again.

Yeah I went to the One’s from Quattro which I’d updated from the linx2, i didn’t bother going to Nexia, although was something I wanted, it’s turned out to be hit and miss for a lot of people, I’ll wait until the next platform to see if it’s worth updating from the One’s

I have both and much prefer the quatrro’s the nexia dont sound as full and feedback alot . I am a musician and music producer and have preferred the quatrro so far .

that’s interesting. i’m a semi-retired tv and video producer, and though not a musician, i’ve spent a great deal of time listening to voice-overs, music scores and the other peripherals of tv production. i started out with rexons, then some other offering from them, and being dissatisfied with them both, moved to quattros when they first came out. the difference was chalk and cheese. however, i had had occasional problems with the quattros - nothing major, but annoying as any problem with a hearing aid is, i decided that it was time to see if the ‘next’ generation resounds were going to make a difference. i undertook a 90 day trial and have to say the difference is noteworthy, NOT dramatically so, but definitely an improvement. one of the bugbears of recording and listening to v/o’s is sometimes the quiet rustle of script pages being turned / moved. with the nexia i’ve been able to pick these sounds up much more easily than with the quattros.
music, well i’m not sure of any ‘depth’ improvement, but i can certainly listen to it at a louder volume than the quattros would allow before distorting.
either way, i’m happy with resound.
curiosity - most of the muso i know seem to prefer widex or oticon, have you tried them?

I’m about 6 months in to using the Nexias after around 6 years on LiNX Quattros.

I haven’t personally noticed much difference in audio quality (I’m no audio professional though). I wouldn’t say it’s better or worse.

I have noticed some peculiarities - I sometimes get very brief audio cutout when there’s a sharp noise. It seems to be completely arbitrary, anything from setting down some crockery, to closing a door. Othertimes they ignores genuinely loud noise which trigger the loud ambient noise alarm on my watch. I find it quite jarring when it happens, but it’s rare enough that I’m not overly bothered.

Of more annoyance is the poor integration with my phone - I’ve just posted another thread about this to see if anyone else suffers with it. Callers can barely hear me when my phone is connected to the aids, and I have to switch the audio device to speaker or the native phone instead. This is a real problem.

I had expected a new model to behave better than the older tech, but I am unimpressed. The only saving grace is being back to a good battery life (24h+), and so far not having any hardware failures - something my Quattros were experiencing every couple of months towards then end of their life.

Overall, I wouldn’t recommend Nexias, and I’ll probably switch brands entirely the next time I’m due

I have had LINX, LINX 2, LINX 3D, LINX Quattro, One and Omnia.

Often one hearing aid sounds better or different from another because of how it is set up, but putting that aside, I think the Omnia and the One were much better than the Quattro, which to me sounded to have quite high levels of distortion. I had two different pairs of Quattro bought a year apart, so it wasn’t a fault with one of them. I didn’t bother with Nexia as my Omnias were only about 6 months old when the Nexias were released. But I am going to get Vivias shortly and if I were on Quattro right now, I would skip the Nexia and wait until Vivia is available to try. Omnia, Nexia and Vivia are the same platform, but Vivia is supposed to have enhanced microphone protection (as well as the chip in the level 9 rechargeable models).

Anyway I am much happier with my Omnias than I ever was with Quattro.

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