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I hear slight but constantly frustrating distortion in my left ear when using my Signia 7AX hearing aids.

I have tinnitus in both ears (worse in the left) and more learing loss in the left ear.

However, when I stream audio to my hearing aids it sounds really, amazingly good. No distortion.

For example, if I listen to 6Music the voices have distortion. And the vocal frequencies of songs. If I stream the same programme to my hearing aids, however, it sounds fine.

My best guess is that the response curve for the hearing aids is boosting the vocal frequencies too much and making it sound distorted. Either that or the microphones are just no good.

Now, I asked my audiologist to specifically reduce the frequencies around 2.5KHz (which is where it sounded noticably boosted, I gave myself a hearing test). However it still sounds the same as before.

This is why I am considering adjusting my own hearing aids, because nothing my audiologist does, helps.

Can you give any suggestions as to why it sounds distorted using the microphones but not using streaming?

Thank you!

John

I could be way over my head on this but I was getting distortion with the “sh” sound on my Signia (truhearing branded) aids. So they lowered some settings to get it to resolve. They went too far and TV streaming sounded muffled. I specifically said I was having a hard time making out speech from TV streaming. They restored some of what they adjusted the first time but I think it was just for the TV streaming. Better but not perfect but I though leave it along as I did not want the “sh” sound back. So the question is can they just adjust the streaming part or am I just imagining things? I’m planning on upgrading to the IX version along with custom molds so hopefully we can tweak this even more. Squeeze what we can without bringing the “sh” sound back.

In reply to @stevek1959

Yes they can make adjustments just for streaming, but also they to ensure they are adjusting the correct frequencies for your other issues of “sh” one of the most common reasons for high frequency loss like yours is , frequency compression,set too high or aggressive will do this, ask your Audiologist to look into this.

Yeah distortion is really annoying, could be a few things going on, posting your audogram would be helpful, knowing the receiver power and dome/mold set up would help as well, so could be the receiver, microphone possibly but unlikely,or even dead spots in your hearing, among other things, this should of been sorted by your audiologist with the correct programming and equipment, etc

@user944 said:

Now, I asked my audiologist to specifically reduce the frequencies around 2.5KHz (which is where it sounded noticably boosted, I gave myself a hearing test). However it still sounds the same as before.

Yeah this is not a good way to find the issue, your Audiologist needs to find what’s giving the issues, giving yourself a hearing test and then advising your Audiologist which frequencies to adjust…is not recommended, let them do the hard yards first, lots of things for them to check.

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