My Phonak Sphere Infinio I90 vs Lumity L90 Shootout

Ear Gear FTW Jordan. All the benefit you highlight but without the heat of the skullcap

My audi. Guess what I have

Just been catching up on the really long thread and as per my early comments fairly near the beginning I pretty much match up with Jordan.

I love my Infinio spheres. They have made my life normal again. I do a lot of loud sporting events and they just allow me to talk with my kids during them. The FA Cup final at Wembley was magnificent and not just because I am Palace supporter but because of how much of it I could hear and be present with.

I pretty much don’t have to do anything other than Autosense these days and I rarely use my Roger On other than in headset mode or with the TV.

I did manually switch Sphere mode on during one conversation in a restaurant and forget to switch it off. I was really surprised when the batteries ran down after about 8 hours as this was the first time I had heard the battery warning on these aids since getting them.

For everyday usage battery life is almost a two day thing although I do charge every day.

I will add I love the rechargeable case. I have one for my Lumity life hearing aids but this one and the size is rather special.

Yes, I remember from your post from August or September 2024? IIRC, you have acrylic earmold with 0.8 mm diameter vent? And UP receiver? I’m not sure if you have the NAL-NL2 or DSL 5.0 adult fitting algorithm.

Any news if NAL NL3 is released yet, I haven’t been on Target for some time, and I was hoping to try it out, when it’s released? Cheers Kev

You have chosen a good time for asking…

Thank you @Bimodal_user…I am much obliged

Will do @Sara82, it will indeed be interesting Cheers Kev.

Kev I plan to test too.

But my specialist sells mainly ReSound. ?

I don’t know if he will get the new operating system program quickly.

Dave

Yeah Dave, but, “He must have Target”… Otherwise, you wouldn’t be using your Phonak aids! It will just be an update. Might be a month or 2 before it’s released though? NAL NL2 works for me, but hopefully there will be a slight overall improvement across the board, we shall shortly find out? Cheers Kev

Not in the U.S. In the U.S. you have to be a patient of that audiologist in order to have your hearing aid serviced, in a vast majority of cases. I don’t know of any cases where this doesn’t apply. I have never heard of any “requirements” other than that.

Our REM guys suggested mid-2026 as a reasonable expectation for when NL3 will be available.

@montieth said:

I thought that audiologists were required to service any hearing aid from a manufacturer that they deal with.

Audiologists aren’t techs employed by manufacturers. They do whatever they want to do. That said, I would expect most to provide service for a fee and the services they are willing to provide might depend on the device.

The extreme horror situation that has happened to a lot of clinicians is that a new patient walks in with an ancient device that they want “cleaned” and when the clinician goes to clean it it crumbles to pieces in their hands and then they have a strange angry client in their waiting room saying that it worked when they walked in and the clinician owes them $5000. So any situation that might feel like that is something that they want to avoid. Patient comes in with an analogue hearing aid they’ve been using for 30 years? They might as well be handing me a Fabergé egg.

@Neville said:

Our REM guys suggested mid-2026 as a reasonable expectation for when NL3 will be available.

So it is probably delays - It was to be expected.

Those horror situations are common to many service jobs. For example, we never forgot when working on water wells that as soon as we touched them we might own them. Thousands of pounds of stuff going into a 4" hole. Everything hanging on the minor thread diameter wall-thickness of many connections of sometimes decades-old pipe. One screw-up and the customer might claim we needed to buy him all new stuff and drill him a new hole, which could easily cost $50k. One we pulled had been badly owner-installed. A few hundred feet of glued Schedule 40 PVC (which is crazy wrong) that had been left in the sun for years before installation, and with no safety rope. We were lucky to get it out without dropping any of it. When we refused to re-use it, the guy claimed we should buy him new pipe because there was nothing wrong with his before we touched it. Fortunately that level of irrational customer was rare.