Phonak Audéo Sphere

@cleveto said:

I talked my Audi into extending my Lumity Naida trial period another 30 days to contemplate upgrading to these.

I don’t see a Naida version of these in this release. They have Audeo, Customs (virto) and CROS. I’d guess next spring sometime. But who knows? The Virtos being part of this release completely surprised me!

WH

Those are high numbers. I wonder if it’s the new solid state XMEMS receiver.

It will be disappointing to wait a year for a Naida. On the other hand some S/W bugs and issues may have been ironed out in the meantime.

You don’t do it that way, you do it by oscillating the 0 to 1.4v very quickly (50khz), then inverting half of the output, -1.4v - 0v +1.4v. Which effectively (once smooothed) gives you a 0v rail and one at 2.8v.

@cleveto said:

I also own a pair of Paradise 90’s with ultra-power receivers in molds which will reach the frequencies which I still have response to. They may not sound quite as full especially streaming but have enough power in my case.

Probably it is because reportedly Naida has double receiver, but I have never seen that neither read any article/info about it.

There is a thread about it here:

Do phonak naida paradise UP hearing aids have two receivers?

Someone else mentioned on another thread that these aids have two receivers (speakers). I can’t find any information about this on the net.

The Sphere model defaults to limiting you to 3 hours a day of use of the AI program. I’ll be interested to see how many hours you can just sit in this program before your battery dies. Presumably they think you can use it for 3 hours, stream for another 3 hours, and still get 16 hours? But what if you just sit in the AI program. . . 8 hours?

Looks like the Sphere is only available at the 90 and 70 levels.

The rechargeable custom is good-looking depending on how chunky it will really be. Without the Sphere stuff, looks like the infinio update is a reasonable upgrade to bluetooth speed and stability and maybe a minor update to the lumity autosense program. Aside from the rechargeable custom the other custom devices are omni directional non-wireless #10 CICs.

Colours for all of the new Audeo Models now have Copper, Sienna Red and Atlantic Green, which look very nice, but more “adult” than the colours in the lumity that were essentially stolen from pre-existing pediatric colours. They must have had enough success with those colours to decide to make new ones. I’m sad to lose the electric green, however.

Edit to add: Unless you’re getting the Sphere, it’s probably not worth moving from the Audeo Lumity RIC to the Audeo Infinio RIC.

@Bimodal_user said:

Where you get this screen? And where can I find the information such as: fitting range, tier comparison and datasheet of Audeos and nee receivers?

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@Neville said:

Edit to add: Unless you’re getting the Sphere, it’s probably not worth moving from the Audeo Lumity RIC to the Audeo Infinio RIC

Bingo, I have to agree.

@glucas said:

I wonder if it’s the new solid state XMEMS receiver.

Would be fantastic news, a real game changer, but nothing about this as yet tho.

My audiologist is at the launch and just sent me this view of the Sphere from his Las Vegas hotel room. Doesn’t look real but it is. Crazy…

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Karl (our Editor) is there too !
He says it’s hot!

@Neville said:

Colours for all of the new Audeo Models now have Copper, Sienna Red and Atlantic Green, which look very nice, but more “adult” than the colours in the lumity that were essentially stolen from pre-existing pediatric colours. They must have had enough success with those colours to decide to make new ones. I’m sad to lose the electric green, however.

I’m kinda sad they dropped the caribbean pirate color.

WH

Not to undermine Karl and Matthew, but I can’t find any evidence of telecoil in their data sheets. Investigating.

@AbramBaileyAuD said:

Karl (our Editor) is there too !
He says it’s hot!

My daughter lives there, and it was about 112 degrees F today!! So, yeah hot atmoSPHERE!