My Phonak Sphere Infinio I90 vs Lumity L90 Shootout

I was also one of the first people in Germany to receive the Sphere hearing aids. I am profoundly hard of hearing, bordering on deafness. Without hearing aids, I hear nothing. According to the doctors, I am actually a candidate for a cochlear implant (CI).

I have tested the Sphere devices in restaurants, at family gatherings, and in daily life. These devices have truly enriched my life. The only criticism I have is about the charging case—it should be larger to accommodate the earmolds.

I also want to mention that I have a very good audiologist who has a lot of patience with me. My earmolds are custom-made from titanium and sit deep in my ear canal, which ensures that very little speech is lost.

You have written some great reports in this forum, and I want to thank you for that. I hope I haven’t made too many mistakes in my text—my English is terrible.

Best regards,

Eduard

@Eduard Any chances you could add your audiogram to your profile?

Danken

@Eduard said:

I was also one of the first people in Germany to receive the Sphere hearing aids.

@Eduard said:

I also want to mention that I have a very good audiologist who has a lot of patience with me.

You’re from Oldenburg - a city where the Oldenburg Test was developed and is used worldwide. So it’s quite possible that there is good audiological care available:

Oldenburger Satztest – Wikipedia2

@Eduard said:

My earmolds are custom-made from titanium and sit deep in my ear canal, which ensures that very little speech is lost.

I’ve just received my Sphere and am waiting for my first deep placed titanium earmold with pressure vent. I’ll see what improvement I get over the power double domes.

Who has made your earmolds? Phonak or Hörluchs?

Titanium earmoulds by Hörluchs: High-tech for acousticians5

Could you provide your tonal audiogram, WRS scores and pictures of your earmolds with venting?

@Eduard said:

I hope I haven’t made too many mistakes in my text—my English is terrible.

No problem. The forum is there to help everyone, not to belittle.

@JordanK said:

Phonak Sphere Infinio I90

today I began testing the Spheres. I have 14 days for the test. I’m rereading your “shootout” and have questions so I hope you don’t mind. As I read, questions pop up and I’ll ask as I read if that’s ok. I decided to try the Spheres even though no coil because your reviews made me what to test these. So question is now you wrote “engage the new Sphere AI noise reduction” == is this something automatic or is it something I have to turn on?

@ggreenone said:

So question is now you wrote “engage the new Sphere AI noise reduction” == is this something automatic or is it something I have to turn on?

The Sphere program will automatically turn on when noise goes beyond a certain threshold (i.e. 70 db). You will know it turned on because voices become sharp and the background noise drops off and sounds a bit weird.

Your audiologist can also setup a separate manual program in the app to allow you to manually activate the Sphere program.

If you are not sure if the Sphere program is activated in the automatic program, open the app and go to the first tab (Home). You should see that you are in the Automatic program. At the bottom, press the “Adjust program” button. At the top of the next screen it will show you what program AutoSense is in right now. If you are in the Sphere AI program and you don’t have a manual Sphere AI program, you will notice that there is a “Save as new” button on the bottom of the screen that will let you create and save your own Sphere AI program.

Hope this helps.

Jordan

Your English is excellent

Your text helps me a lot.

I’m interested in your report and the others.

DaveL

@ggreenone Just know that the next time your audiologist makes changes in your HAs the ones you’ve created from myphonak get wiped out.

WH

Hi Eduard

Greetings from Portugal!
I’m curious about the titanium molds. They must have taken a long time to make! Do they really block sound than plastic?

We were at a semi-quite restaurant last night with another couple. Sphere’s were not good; about as good a my own K10s. Tried adjusting them, but it was useless. The other nite we were with some other friends (8 people). These not good there either. Same as with my own K10s. Any suggestions? Really disappointing because the days before the restaurants, things were going really well.

@BixbyBaxter said:

I’m curious about the titanium molds. They must have taken a long time to make!

@WhiteHat said:

I believe they 3d print the titanium ear pieces. It wasn’t really any different than turn-around for other types of custom pieces.

WH

I have been waiting for 3-3.5 weeks now…

By me it took 2 weeks.
These molds seem to fit better

I think mine were back in a couple weeks, took a few more days to get a slot in for fitting.

WH

Unfortunately, the youngest employee at the place where I had my ear impressions made made a mistake and told me they could program my Phonak hearing aids if I bought them elsewhere. It turns out they don’t have Target software.

I’ll temporary go DIY route. There will be pressure vent and deeply placed so maybe larger probability of less dicrepancy compared to REM-based fitting.