Costco Sennheiser Sonite R

Please let us know how it goes and if you feel the difference between the KS10 and the Sonite R is significant .

@member6 said:

My KS10s are fine but it would be nice if the new ones are better for speech at family gatherings where everyone talks at the same time.

I doubt you will find much difference. The KS10 and the Sennheiser Sonite R have almost exactly the same specifications. I also doubt you will find much help in the multiple talker situation. Even my Infinio Sphere 90’s don’t help in that situation. But everybody is different so keep us updated.

Well, I am impressed with my COSTCO “Senior Hearing Aid Specialist”.
The test procedure was completely different than it was four years ago except for the Real Ear measurement.
He changed the wax filters and reprogrammed my KS10s. Now, every thing sounds quite different…clearer and louder.
He said the sounds would be louder and I said that was fine with me because I could always decrease the volume.
Then, he said to wait a year or two before considering any new hearing aids after I said I was interested in the Sennheiser Sonite R aids.
Everything was done at no cost of course.
I have updated my audiogram.

I also bought the Sennheiser Sonite R from Costco one week ago. At that price I could afford the remote, the mic and the molds. It came with the tv connector. I also had the Marvel. It is too soon to tell but I think they are pretty good. Still speech in noise is a problem but I have not tried the app yet.

@PMJ said:

The other issue is that I hear noise that is highly amplified such as my husband opening the chip bag in the kitchen or the cat eating hard food in another room

This sounds like typical reaction to the loss of high frequency sound for a long time and then getting it back. It doesn’t sound “right” until your brain gets used to hearing them again. Toilets flushing, faucets streaming, the refrigerator making its noises, dogs and cats playing, little kids screaming (I still start to come unglued by that…) and a hundred other things take a while to relearn what they really sound like. Three weeks to six months for most of it. But 4 years later I’m still finding sounds I used to know, but relearning now. I ask “what’s that sound I’m hearing?” enough that my 2, almost 3 yo grandson has a typical question, “what’s that cool sound?” when he hears something.

WH

I try not to jump when the icemaker in the top left side of our fridge dumps a fresh batch into the bin!
Vehicles with reversing alarms are fun, too. And our neighbor was using a chainsaw for the past 3 days. And I never realized how creaky our floor is. There are no structural issues showing up on inspection, so we’ll keep it creaky as an auxiliary burglar alarm!

Reminds me of several years back when I first started wearing aids. I think you’re rI needed to relearn, but what the aids do isight that a lot of those things are just relearning, but I still feel like some of the sounds aren’t quite natural. My feet walking on carpet for example. Sure there’s a sound there that isn’t actually natural. Depending on settings and programming of course, some frequencies get over-amped and are louder than they ought to be.
I rekon a lot of that can be fixed with enough return visits to the audiologist for tweaking, but only if the audiologist is patient enough to stick with it and entertain getting the things dialed in.

Regardless, a wearer can get used to even the over-amped sounds if they wear the aids all the time and give it time.

Sort of like lasic. I used to have 20/20 vision (actually better) but it faltered with age. Had lasic and it brought it back to test 20/20…but it’s not the same. It’s not quite right… Just like that, I rekon aided hearing will never be as good as perfect natural hearing… but it’s better than un-aided

I think this is part of what I’m experiencing, since I lost a bit more high-end.

Overall so far I love my Sonite R’s, which are a major improvement over the Phillips 9040s that I stopped using as a replacement for my KS9’s going back six years or so. I’m experiencing the generally much more natural sound that the KS9’s gave me, the 9040s were too harsh. That plus old-version Bluetooth/streaming/hands-off phone means I’ll keep these unless some unexpected issue pops up.