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Asking people how satisfy about CROS hearing aid?

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Dear,

I have single-sided deafness (). My good ear has normal hearing, but the hearing loss in my poor ear is nearly 100 . Because I haven’t received sound stimulation on that side since childhood, my speech recognition score is very low. Consequently, my poor ear cannot use a standard hearing aid and have to relies on a transmitter to route sound to my good ear."

“I recently trialed the Signia Pure 3iX CROS and found that unless the person is speaking right next to me, the CROS receiver struggles to clearly pick up and transmit the sound to my good ear. I want to ask other CROS hearing aid users: Are you satisfied with your CROS hearing aids? And would upgrading to a higher-tier model significantly improve my situation? Thank you.”

I recently had the Phonak Infinio 90 Bicros units but ended up returning them. I couldn’t use them in restaurants, loud places or empty houses that would echo. I had to take them out to hear the person that was right in front of me. I did a bunch of research and figured out what the issue was and that all Bicros hearing aids have the same issue. If the cros unit doesn’t have the same technology as the non-cros unit for your ear that works, it will drown out the technology of the non bicros unit to the point of making them useless when in the environments listed above. I tried reaching Phonak which was a complete joke and went back and forth with them about it to the point that they would just gas light me. I also reached out to Sharkey and all they would say is “Try it you’ll like it”. When I got to someone at Oticon, the Audiologist put an engineer on the phone with us and when I explained the situation. He said that the Oticon cros had a 6db mute available but it would not help. When I explained the whole situation above, he got it and said that this is a design flaw. What they need to do is sell you to full featured hearing aids (not a cros) and do a full program on both of them to what your needs are and then send the signal over to the functioning ear. . There is no way that the functioning hearing aid can process the cros info for sound because it has no ideal where the sound is coming from. I really hope they figure this out soon

My update.

After getting my ear molds and having done, What an improvement. The Sphere function is very noticeable. I am able to hear in loud environments. My word recognition score went way up, I can hear and understand many words.
I still need some fine tuning to get them perfect, but I believe I will get there. Using these without ear molds is a big mistake in my opinion. The ear molds made a night and day difference.

I also just saw another video on these and it was recommended that the auto sense setting be set to moderate noise for switching modes as the high noise level isn’t sensitive enough for most people.

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