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I use Oticon Real 1. We recently went to a live performance in a hall with 1000 people. Everything was fine until the MC asked the audience to show their appreciation. To me and only me, the sound of everyone applauding was painfully loud. I blame the aids for making the loud applause and shouting even louder.

It seems to me that the aids should not have been amplifying the loud crowd noise. There should be some limiting function. I mentioned this to my audiologist, and she said that the aids are not noise cancelling headphones. I’m not asking for that, just asking that the aids don’t make things worse.

Does Oticon have any parameters which would mute them above a certain sound level? Is there anything else that could be done, other than covering my ears or removing the aids?

Thank you.

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Your audiologist can and should have made the necessary adjustments. So talk to your audiologist.

So yes there are adjustments but they are in the fitting software.

If you were listening to the live performance with the music setting on your aids, then the amplification would have been fairly linear. When I am at concerts, I try to switch off the music setting before the applause begins, to protect against the excessive noise. (I use a manual music program because the automatic version doesn’t turn off all the speech processing, resulting in weird warbles.)

I don’t do any type of . I really don’t know how it is done. I just know that my audiologist is a wizard with fitting my aids. But it has been a 7 year process.

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If you feel loud sounds are too loud, you need to ask your to reduce the loud and possibly moderate sounds in Genie2, in the fine tuning step.

Also might be worth retesting your , which is based on your tolerance for the highest sound you support to hear.

These are based on my own experiences, also based on the fitting assistance recommendations

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You want to ask your audiologist to reduce gain for loud sounds. I think Oticon also has a feature for loud transients that you could have her check.

I would be concerned if my audiologist didn’t know how to do something so basic with my aids.

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