Phonak Infinio Sphere I90 Review (Another One!)

Yeah well the thing is most people are HAPPY with them, only a small group that are complaining, but I don’t know why anyone would stick with a brand their not happy with, I dump brands straight away that don’t suit my lifestyle, so never have to try are get anyone else ( like a manufacturer)to change things so that I’m happy with them, just walk away, problem gone and sleep easy.

+1. Same issue here.

Wait, lets consider what you are saying.

If the product was non functioning, or totally underperforming, well then it would have been rejected during my trial. Right?

The reason to be upset as I am, is not only that I have invested money, but I have invested time, learning, becoming practiced with them, and invested also emotionally in what seemed to be a good option. The brand wants us to buy into their boasts. It is our job to help them to measure up in the little ways they make us suffer.

Everything has something that can be improved. You don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. You find ways of updating the bathwater. Or in this case the firmware and software. Doable. Once we know the water needs changing.

@platypus said:

I started an entire thread on the edited names reverting back some time ago.

I’ve never had an edited program name show up correctly in the App

This assumes autosense is in use.

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@WhiteHat

I didn’t chose my Audeo Paradise P90Rs. My dispensing Audi did. I was referred to him by my employer.

Frankly I feel like I was pushed down a rabbbit hole. On bad days I feel programmable hearing aids using auto sense 4 are a bad deal

@DaveL said:

Frankly I feel like I was pushed down a rabbbit hole. On bad days I feel programmable hearing aids using auto sense 4 are a bad deal

I have a fixed program as default/startup, with Autosense as a switchable option. I tend to only use Autosense when I’m a passenger in a car. At all other times, I manually switch between 3 programmes. I don’t switch with the app, I just scroll through with long presses. This works well for me.

Hi Italy…

That is a good question…my hearing loss is very similar to yours..ie dead on the high side. Thinking about your question…yes, it is a bit like the conversation is being streamed..in that the Sphere mode is very selective. Think of it as like using an old fashioned hearing horn pointed at the speaker. Its pretty impressive, and to me, very noticiable, ie it gets my attention, which further helps hear the voice. Phonak is on the right track with this technology. I look forward to the next big revision. Maybe eventually I can hear conversations better than someone with “normal” hearing..

My issue with the i90 Spheres is that they pick too much conversation and background noise! I love it when I’m outdoors, and feel like I can hear every bird from a mile away (whereas my first hint of hearing loss was inability to hear birds and crickets). But I’m also finding that when background noise is intermittent, not continuous, the Spheres pick them up and magnify them. I was in a restaurant recently in the late afternoon. My friend and I were the only ones there, save for an employee sweeping crumbs on the floor into a metal pan on a pole. Each time the broom hit the metal pan, I heard an extremely loud clanging sound. I asked my friend if she heard it, and she didn’t notice it at all.

Also, I have parrots that constantly chatter when I am on a phone call (which streams from my iPhone into my HAs via Bluetooth). The callers always complain about the parrots, the sounds of which are magnified by the receivers in my C-shell earmolds. I have to switch to speaker mode on the phone, which normalizes the sound, or leave the room.

If you change your phone call input from your hearing aids to the mobile device microphone it will make your callers happy. You can still have their voice go into your hearing aids. (This applies to iPhone.)

I trialed Sphere 24s and sent them back. they just didn’t live up to the hype.