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My Phonak Sphere Infinio I90 vs Lumity L90 Shootout

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I would say that after evenings at the restaurant, meetings, family dinners etc. at this point a nice evening at the cinema is ideal for completing the tests. :grinning:

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@JordanK said:

I took my ebike for a one hour ride along a local trail through a wooded area. One of my beefs with Lumity is that the wind block feature works well with light wind but when you are riding on a bicycle at higher speeds with lots of wind, the wind block feature gets overwhelmed. I did note a similar performance with the new Sphere hearing aids. Perhaps my audiologist can adjust this in Target to make the Windblock more aggressive. I will ask during my next visit.

I wonder if you would still hear the wind noise with the double dome, even with Sphere/Lumity turned off.

I have an air purifier, and even with an earmold with a pressure vent (0.8 mm?), I still hear humming even when my Paradise is turned off. Perhaps only the higher pitch component of humming is significantly decreased.

Excellent explanation about Dell Bluetooth issues.

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@JordanK said:

I still have to go back to the audiologist and get them tweaked a bit to improve voice clarity. Voices are clear when you are in a quiet room but as soon as you get a bit of noise (kitchen fan over the stove, kettle boiling, tap running, outdoor air conditioner switching on, etc), a bit of noise reduction kicks in and voices seem to lose clarity.

Please let us know how your audiologist adjust that, as I have same issue with my Lumity.

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@JordanK said:

There are a few downsides. First one is that the Spheric program CHEWS BATTERY LIFE. I entered the restaurant at 7:30 pm and my battery was at 71%. I left the restaurant about two hours later and my battery was at 49%. Basically chewed through 22% of the battery life in just under two hours.

You had the commitee meeting before Duff’s. So could that have also chewed battery life if the Spheres were working harder in an acoustically challenging place?

Geez. I’m SO wishing I could rob a bank and go get me a pair of Spheres to try out. I’m maxed out with 2 Lumity Life rechargeables and the new 312-battery Lumity. I simply can’t justify any more aids … well, unless I SOLD two pairs of rechargeables! (I’m thinking as I peck this out.)

If nothing else, I’d keep the Spheres charged and ready to wear in any noisy or large gathering situation. Kind of like having different shoes for different activities. The Spheres really DO sound like they are working out for you in places where the Lumity Life would not deliver optimum hearing.

SO GLAD you got these and continue to put them to the test. I’d ask you to go jump in a lake and see if they’re “waterproof” … but that’s just my own wicked sense of twisted humor having done something similar with my NOT waterproof Lumity Life aids.

Forgot to mention one small thing that will make some of you happy. The Sphere’s receivers use Cerustop filters.

Jordan

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! HA! Playin’ to the band here!

I wanted to ask: have you streamed music on either iPhone or Android? I was listening to some Jethro Tull today (Phonak Lumity Life + Android Samsung Flip-4) and was surprised to hear like totally new notes thru these aids when I stream music. The songs I recalled from 40-odd years ago were different tunes, likely cuz I couldn’t hear many of the notes.

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Music sounds fairly good but it’s hard to say when you are deaf. I’ve got nerve damage so music often sounds slightly out of tune. The best songs for me are those that I know really well as my brain fills in the missing gaps and I’m still able to enjoy them the way I remember them. New music is a bit tougher and classical music is a challenge.

Jordan

@AlexE Hahaha, To be fair, it could be other’s choice as it’s generally the Juke Box in the pub :grinning:

I’m at the ultimate place to torture test the Spheric noise reduction and it passed with flying colours. If you can hear speech here, you can hear anywhere :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Guess where I am?

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Jordan

Yes! You hear everything but with way less noise. You don’t have to be facing the person you are speaking to. The microphones seem to be in wide mode. The only separation in sound is left and right.

Jordan

Is that really desirable at Costco/Sam’s or wherever that was? It’s an incredible technological feat, I’m just skeptical of how helpful it really is.

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