First Measurement after using Phonak 2 Years

@Raudrive said:

You might consider starting a new client and program from scratch using Audiogram Direct.

I tried it. Sounds are louder/clearer, even my own voice. The sounds coming from plates and glasses while washing them is a bit different (or maybe just louder!).

I’m still struggling to hear/understand in noisy environments, however.

I’ll keep trying it for more days and see what’s new.
Thank you!

@Zeeza said:

I tried it. Sounds are louder/clearer, even my own voice. The sounds coming from plates and glasses while washing them is a bit different (or maybe just louder!).

Way to go. Word understanding should improve some after acclimated to the new sounds.

Noisy environments are difficult for everyone. If you get in that environment often you should improve in them, hopefully.

Something I was taught from this forum is most DIY fittings are under fit. Knowing this in time you may want to bump overall gains just a little, not much.

If the stimuli used in an aided test didn’t simulate the characteristics of speech (e.g. modified phonemes, ling sounds) then aided audiograms are often not a valid method of performance because technologies like the feedback canceller and noise reduction in modern hearing aids can alter the signal in such that it isn’t heard until is present in the environment at much louder levels than would be the case if a speech-like stimulus was used, making threshold (the softest sound you can reliably hear) seeking very unreliable.

Thanks for all the tips!