My Phonak Sphere Infinio I90 vs Lumity L90 Shootout

I can’t see how for steaming, it’s for live situations, so using the built-in microphones.

You can mute the HA mics while streaming (From the my Phonak app or from the HA button if setup this way). You will hear only the sound streaming from the TV but you will lose your hearing of the surrounding.

I explained myself badly, I was referring to situations of noise in the speech of the TV. For example, watching a movie, there are often scenes of dialogues in the middle of surrounding noises such as traffic, parties, etc.

It would be interesting if the Sphere mode, in addition to activating in live situations, also activated during streaming

P90’s too.

I’ve taken speech in noise.
Pushed the Clarity button

It increases mid and high frequencies.

So I saved it as a saved custom program in myPhonak

Now I’m changing other settings.

Hope this helps

Edit. Your hearing loss is worse than mine. You have more high-frequency loss.

This is the Program Options page for my Lumity 90’s Speech Streaming. There are some adjustments. Obviously I don’t know the details of the Sphere equivalent, but I doubt the Sphere chip will be included in the options?

You may change the HA to Infinio Sphere and simulate adjustments.

@JordanK said:

One for music and one for voice. I recall seeing that in Target when my audiologist was setting up my Sphere’s

One point on this Jordan is that the gains and MPOs are totally different with streaming, as the sound is originating in the ear canal, not from outside. The bass frequencies are massively boosted to compensate for loss through domes and vents.

I use ChatGPT 4.5 to suggest solutions to my “small” problems.
It can read and analyze the REM file produced by the audio and give useful suggestions (IMHO).
If s/o is interested I can PM a link to the chat…

Thank you, could I also get a link?

@al1 Are you happy with the result? There has been some discussion of ChatCPT in the DIY section of the forum.

But you couldn’t actually know the details or any difference to what some AI bot is telling you, it’s scraping information from the interwebs as fact, I can say for sure that I wouldn’t recommend or use anything that it feels is what your needing in a successful fit, it’s too far fetched at the moment to be of any use mainstream, in the not too distant future I’m sure it will be “helpful” oh and yes I tried it myself, but sorry it just seemed “mashed” together sounding like…well like an intellectual who thinks they know so much, it wasn’t even close, and this is a problem I see, hearing is so very subjective and the reason DIY is important for some of us, more so then just advice from AI bots…hang on a minute, how do we know your not a bot?

Haha. How do you want to prove I am not a bot?
If you look at your old messages you will find we corresponded and you gracefully PMed me the SW for the Starkey Evolv in September 24 then the Phonak Target SW in Dec 24.
Nobody said this AI analysis is perfect (or error free) but it is very useful in understanding the REM and provided recommendations which might or might not work.
Have a look at the analysis first then form your opinion. If you do, you will certainly find some errors, but it is certainly not a mashed text.

I’m a recovering Phonak Audeo Paradise P90R user.

After parting ways with my dispensing Audi
I tried asking questions of AI.

I am truly impressed!

Good answers!

DaveL

Had an issue with my Sphere’s last night. I was watching the live Canadian Election results on TV and I suddenly noticed that there was no sound coming through the right hearing aid. I wasn’t streaming…just listening via the hearing aids. I tried rebooting the right hearing aid multiple times and still no sound. I then did a hard reset by holding down one of buttons until the right hearing aid rebooted and still nothing. Weird thing is that the myPhonak app showed a live connection to the dead hearing aid, battery level was good and I could change the programs and volume on the other hearing aid by pressing the buttons on the dead hearing aid. Seemed like the hearing aid was functioning correctly and communicating with both the other hearing aid and my iPhone but the receiver was dead…so no sound. I then removed the right receiver and put it back in to confirm a good connection. Still dead.

I then dropped the two Sphere’s into their charger and put on my old Lumity hearing aids on so that I could continue watching the election coverage. After an hour, I went back upstairs and tried the Sphere’s again. They both booted up and the right hearing aid was working and back to normal. I put the Sphere’s back on and the right hearing aid died again after about 30 minutes. Dropped them back into the charger and finished the evening wearing the Lumity hearing aids.

This morning the right Sphere was once again back to normal. Drove over to my audiologist to get them checked. He replaced both receivers and did a firmware update to 1.0.13.0 (while his next patient waited in the waiting room…I felt so guilty making an elderly person wait like that). Strategy was to replace the receivers to see if that fixed the issue or whether the actual hearing aids had to be sent back for a hardware repair. It’s been 3-4 hours since the visit and both hearing aids are working perfectly. The only clue is that everything seems a bit louder. I’m wondering if the right receiver was starting to degrade and that’s why everything is louder/clearer this afternoon.

Couple of points to highlight. These Sphere’s are excellent and wearing the old Lumity hearing aids last night confirmed that sound quality is definitely superior on the Sphere’s. That being said, hearing aids are not without issues and having a really good audiologist who can quickly get you back up and running when there are issues…is a huge benefit. This is why I will never do the DIY self programming thing. Luckily my audiologist is a superstar.

That’s my update for today. Life is good when you can hear…haha.

Jordan