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I’m a physician and have used hearing aids for 3 years. I have Phonak Lumity and Signia Pure Charge & Go hearing aids. I initially went to an audiologist to get them programmed, but now I program them myself with fitting software because I’m a perfectionist. I even have a real ear measurement setup.

I had severe, sudden sensorial hearing loss in my right ear after I had COVID-19 in 2022. I had and everything, but at the time, I purchased Eargo 6 and used them until I got into audiology.

Ultimately, I returned the Eargo 6 because the right ear could not reach the prescriptive target, and it was so high that if I wore the Eargos in an enclosed room or walked down a hallway, I’d get too much feedback/squealing in the right ear.

I tried Signia Silks last year, and there was too much right ear feedback in those.

The Eargo 8s are significantly better than the Signia Silk or Eargo 6 at eliminating feedback and can approximate my prescriptive right ear levels. (To be clear, I know Eargos are not for severe hearing loss, but they work for my use.)

I want to be able to wear my stethoscope over them, but there is still too much feedback when the stethoscope earpieces are in place. I didn’t expect to be able to do that, as we are probably several generations of aids away from being able to do that.

I will continue to wear the Phonak aids at work to use my stethoscope, but these will be my home and off-work hearing aids.

I did do speech in noise testing. The Signia Pure charge and Gos did not outperform the Eargos. They were Identical. The Phonak achieved about a 5% improvement in performance compared to the Eargo in the right ear.

Here is a link to the 50,65, and 80 (soft, medium, and loud) Real Ear Measurement curves comparing the to the Phonak Lumity. It shows that the Eargo 8 is the only tested hearing aid with prescription-grade compression. The Zepp Pixie is mid, and the Sony and Ceretone have ZERO compression https://imgur.com/a/7GfHd9W31

I will not be returning the Eargo 8!

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Some questions:
Are you using the open or the closed petals?
Do eargos allow you to use your or are the gains set via an app test?
When you say 5% improvement , how were you able to measure that?

I haven’t heard much about the Eargos, I know they are among the most expensive out there, so this is useful information. Thanks for sharing.

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The 8s don’t have open and closed petals. They have what they call trumpets, which approximate vented domes. Eargos are self-fit using the app test in situ test. I heard you can call eargo support and send them your , and they can set them for you, but I haven’t done that. Honestly I have better results with Phonaks and Signia using the in-situ hearing tests, and I do the upper frequencies one step above the threshold because that helps my tinnitus in my right ear. I did that with the Eargo, too, so I fudge it a little on purpose.

They are expensive. I got some $400 off promo from their direct site. They do honor the return period. In 2022 I returned the Eargo 6 after about 30 days and got a full refund no questions asked.

They aren’t for everyone, and for a specific use case, for sure. I much prefer them over the Sony CRE-10/20 and Signia Silks, which both squealed way too much in the right ear, even with .

I have no connection to Eargo other than just paying them a butt-load of money for hearing aids lol.

Oh for the speech in noise I literally played restaurant ambience on my surround sound system from a youtube video and used my phone to play barely audible youtube speech clips (Dr. Cliff clips lol) and counted the words I got wrong after a minute, a few times each. Unaided with my left ear plugged my average was around 30% in my right ear un-aided, 84% with my Eargo, 83% with my Signia, and 91% with my Phonak Lumity. Nothing too scientific. If I use my Roger-on with the Phonak it’s near 100%.

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@DrJimmyJoeJimbob said:

I want to be able to wear my stethoscope over them,

IIRC, the majority of sounds auscultated are in the range of up to ~600 Hz, so you don’t even have to use a hearing aid. Though, I understand that greater loudness provides some comfort.

First of all, the feedback should be corrected by closing the coupling. Active feedback reduction mainly exists as support. Occlusion effect should be less problematic if domes are pushed deeper towards bony part of ear canal (medial 1/3).

EDIT: I have been writing this post just before reading of the last post of OP.

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@Bimodal_user said:

IIRC, the majority of sounds auscultated are in the range of up to ~600 Hz, so you don’t even have to use a hearing aid.

I have tubes in my ears so I can use steroid drops in them as soon as I get Covid, which I get about 3 times per year as an urgent care doc. Ear ringing is usually the only symptom I ever get. Prior to that I had to take oral steroids and once do hyperbaric therapy. So my low frequencies took a hit just because of the tubes ( I haven’t updated the Hearing Tracker to now include the 10-15 db air gap across all frequencies due to the tubes.) I use an EKO stethoscope but I wish it were louder. The breath sounds are easy to hear but I have to have radio silence to hear heartbeats!

From 2 weeks ago: those tubes are killing my lower frequencies!

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@DrJimmyJoeJimbob said:

I have tubes in my ears so I can use steroid drops in them as soon as I get Covid, which I get about 3 times per year as an urgent care doc.

I understand. Sorry to hear that.

@DrJimmyJoeJimbob said:

I use an EKO stethoscope but I wish it were louder. The breath sounds are easy to hear but I have to have radio silence to hear heartbeats!

IIRC, EKO is a decent stethoscope, does it have Bluetooth capability?

Regarding heartbeats, I do know that it is not always possible, but try to auscultate them after requesting patients to lean forward, like 30-45° from the vertical. The heart slides a bit closer to the chest wall then.

@Bimodal_user said:

does it have Bluetooth capability?

Yes, but IMO for low frequencies to amplify well I’d need headphones. I could do that in a pinch, but haven’t needed to yet. They add nothing to hearing aids that aren’t occluded with custom molds or something.

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@OcramSagev said:

Some questions:
Are you using the open or the closed petals?
Do eargos allow you to use your audiogram or are the gains set via an app test?
When you say 5% improvement , how were you able to measure that?

I haven’t heard much about the Eargos, I know they are among the most expensive OTCs out there, so this is useful information. Thanks for sharing.

I have Eargo 7’s.

You can get Eargo to remotely provide settings based on different . They call them Sound Matches.

I have 3 Sound Matches I can switch between.

  • Online Eargo hearing test results
  • Apple online hearing test results using Airpod Pro 2’s
  • My Costco Audiogram

I ended up using my Costco Audiogram but the others were OK as well.

Most of the time I use my Jabra Enhance Pro 30s but occasionally switch to the Eargo’s. The Eargo’s are actually better for me on feedback vs the Jabra Enhance Pro 30’s (maybe because they are actually in the ear canal) so I use them when hiking and wearing a large sun hat (I am in California) which sits close to the hearing aid microphones in the Jabra’s.

The Eargo’s have multiple programs. I have normal (similar to all around), restaurant (similar to hear in noise), TV and music.

They also have a noise filter that can be set to adjust automatically or emphasize speech or reduce noise for comfort.

Using the Costco Audiogram (on both the Eargos and Jabras) there isn’t that much difference in most situations between the Eargo’s and the Jabra Enhance Pro 30’s. The Jabras may be slightly better for speach outside but there isn’t much in it.

Yes the Eargo’s are expensive (I got them on a black friday deal last year at $1999 but they are normally between $2000-$3000) but I got them first and then went to Costco. If I had done it the other way round I would probably just have got the Jabra’s

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I posted this on the Ceretone post as well, so this is just posting on the Eargo 8 review for future reference:

Well, no one asked for it, but I’m insane. So here are of the Ceretones vs Eargo 8 vs Phonak Lumity, along with ChatGPT interpretation LOL

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REM video link3

The response for unaided on the left ear looks a bit strange in the low frequencies. Are you near a wall or anything?

I think for the unaided condition, you can run it in if you haven’t done so already. A bit easier to look at for proper probe placement, but maybe this was intentional to show all on one screen. You want to look for it to not dip/go below 0 (-5 at most in some instances) at 6khz to ensure proper depth.

Also to account for air bone gaps, there may be a selection that allows the prescriptive targets to account for the conductive component (the air bone gap). It may increase the target gain in those areas with gaps.

@mindsil said:

The response for REAR unaided on the left ear looks a bit strange in the low frequencies. Are you near a wall or anything?

I think it’s just not labeled right in the software because I don’t know what i’m doing lol. The red is the and the dark green is the unaided where I just put the probe in without the hearing aid. I got this stuff on ebay last year and am just messing around.

Yes I did cut out the lower and higher volumes and took some other lines out so I could just have everything one one screen.

I saw that the dark green was labeled unaided. The dark green on the right ear stays above a certain we can call 0 which looks good. The left ear, it dips below that level at 500-1khz which is also why the response dips in those areas. It can be due to placement in the ear, acoustics in the room, bad probe tube, bad probe tube calibration. It could also be the tube in your eardrum.

That being said, I think it’s commendable that you made it this far into performing real ear measurements.

For comparisons, an might be useful with a test box so that you don’t have to place the probe tubes every time you want to measure the output.

Not sure what to say about someone doing an RECD on themselves with tubes in their eardrum. I’d say don’t do it because it’s not without any potential risk.

@mindsil said:

The response for REAR unaided on the left ear lo a bit strange in the low frequencies. Are you near a wall or anything?

@DrJimmyJoeJimbob said:

I think it’s just not labeled right in the REM software because I don’t know what i’m doing lol. The red is the audiogram and the dark green is the unaided where I just put the probe in without the hearing aid. I got this stuff on ebay last year and am just messing around.

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@mindsil said:

The response for REAR unaided on the left ear looks a bit strange in the low frequencies. Are you near a wall or anything?

The wall on my right ear is about 7 meters away and on my left is about 1.5 meters away. That may be what you are seeing. I looked at the graphs and understand now.

Thanks for your suggestions!

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@mindsil said:

For comparisons, an RECD might be useful with a test box so that you don’t have to place the probe tubes every time you want to measure the output.

I have these from an old Frye Fonix FP35 hearing aid analyzer I got broken on Ebay and repaired just for kicks. The analyzer is from the 2007 and super crude but I’ll try to pair them with my setup and see how it works

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