Oticon Intent 1's 7 day experiences

Even the best of the best hearing aids, can’t fully give us back normal hearing. And I have finding due to my eye sight issues glasses no longer can fully give my normal eye sight back.

Thanks for sharing your Intent experience. Wow, 2K sterling is around only $2500 USD. How did you get such a great price? Here in the US, my audi quoted me $7900 for a pair of Intent 1s. I think that’s the full retail price, no discount. Also, you only get 3 year warranty in the US.

Have you had a chance to try the Intent 1s in noisy places yet? How does it compare to the OPN 1s in noisy places? More detailed comparison to the OPN 1s in any environment, but especially noisy environment, is greatly appreciated.

12 hours of use on a charge is much shorter than their advertised use of 20 hours use (if I recall correctly, but I may be wrong here). Do you stream a lot?

I know it. I wanted to say that we won’t feel much difference between an expensive and a cheap model or between an old and new model. For example, I have two pairs of Xceed - 1 and 2, and I feel almost no difference between them. but the difference in their prices is big. Most likely you won’t feel the difference between Real and Intent.

Hi everyone, firstly the price. The audiologist I use is a chap called Syed and the company is http://myhearingcare.co.uk/37 He discounted the aids because I had recommended several friends to him I believe the real price to everyone else is about £2500 which is still a massive bargain. He is a lovely chap who listens to me carefully and adjusts the prescription accordingly. He has created me a program called lecture which is fantastic for when I am at the front of a large room of students. I also have a program called speech in noise I have not tested the aids in a noisy environment yet so I will update you on that.

As for the mic streaming to the iPhone when using the phone. While walking the dog I tested this with a friend, he said there was a lot of outside noise, like traffic and when I passed a school. He said that the aids did not do the noise cancelling of the iPhone mic and when I switched back to the iPhone he said it was so much better. From this test I will not be using them again for outside walking, To answer a call you just press one of the buttons on the aids. In a quiet environment they are superb and I tested this with the same friend who said that there was no difference between the iPhone and the aids.

I have not done a lot of testing to complete depletion of the battery. I will do this and report back the full charge duration when I have it.

As to the streaming audio quality, my audiologist sent me two strips of domes. My normal double open dome 8mm and the open bass dome. The sound quality with the open bass is slightly better but the step up from the Opn1 is very noticeably superior. I did change the receivers recently on my old Opn1’s so I know its not a factor of old receivers, they are considerably clearer, obviously a combination of the new electronics and I believe I have read that the receivers used in the Intent have additional wires, letting the aids know the db. of the receiver. This if you can believe their marketing they say that this ensures that the aids compensate for the tolerance of the receivers as there are wide variations in their calibration at the factory.

I suppose the acid tests are that I hear so much better with them and it was a big decision to upgrade as I was doing well with the Opn1s . Also there is much more balance in the sound between say the noise of the house alarm setting buttons, which were overly loud before and the sounds of the birds in the garden, and as I mentioned the screw bouncing on the kitchen floor. I can hear the television with a much lower volume setting in so many ways its a game changer. I am particularly pedantic about my hearing and had at least 10 adjustments when I first got fitted 10 years ago.

Finally comfort. the loaners were very uncomfortable and I thought this was due to the Intent’s being fatter than the Opn1s. With the longer receiver wires they sit further behind my ear and are very comfortable even when I am wearing glasses.

@Volusiano said:

my audi quoted me $7900 for a pair of Intent 1s. I think that’s the full retail price, no discount. Also, you only get 3 year warranty in the US.

That’s not a retail price, the retail price is what the audi got them for. What you were quoted for is with the added services/care on top, and it can vary greatly from audi to audi. Some even offer “uncoupled” packages where you get price closer to retail [without the audis aftercare].
And as you can see there are rare places where they won’t price gouge you.

@Volusiano said:

my audi quoted me $7900 for a pair of Intent 1s. I think that’s the full retail price, no discount. Also, you only get 3 year warranty in the US.

@Reginald said:

That’s not a retail price, the retail price is what the audi got them for. What you were quoted for is with the added services/care on top, and it can vary greatly from audi to audi. Some even offer “uncoupled” packages where you get price closer to retail [without the audis aftercare].
And as you can see there are rare places where they won’t price gouge you.

I disagree, but thank you for trying to giving me a lesson on terminology. I would say that how much the audi got them for from Oticon should be called “their cost”, I wouldn’t call it retail price. When I said "full retail price with no discount above, I was implying MSRP (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price), but I cut out the MS part for short.

Below is the pricing as listed on Hearing Tracker for the Intents (I think it’s per each hearing aid, not the pair). You can call it whatever you want. I think it’s MSRP and these are the prices I’m talking about, which I call full retail price with no discount.

Thanks for the review. I am waiting for my intent 1. In another life time I had the same problem you have with lecturing and meetings. Only aid technology then was analog. It didn’t cut it for me, so I retired. So glad they work for you.

AFAIK Hearing Tracker, doesn’t list MSRP prices either, but please someone correct me if I’m wrong.

It’s not that hard to figure msrp prices on your own, when some places are selling them for even half of the price were taking about, and still turning profit for sure. So I don’t know if you’re purposely obtuse or what’s exactly the point you’re trying to make here.

@tenkan said:

So true, I just think the prices been quoted are just outrageous, it’s crazy people are still even considering paying this, no way is it worth it! So many options out in the market to get a decent deal, this so called “bundled service” is just wog wash, we see it all the time here on hearingtracker, people can’t get want they paid for, I don’t know if people really do the research before handing over such vast amounts.

I wouldn’t be too hasty to judge how people spend their own money if I were you. Everybody’s value is different, and if people can afford it and they are willing to pay the money for that product, who are we to judge them how they spend their money?

Oh yeah I get that, it’s true some millionaire isn’t gonna worry about how much his next Porsche is gonna cost, he gets to pay for the 5 year 100,000 mile warranty anyway(to bad if he doesn’t get to use it ) it’s just that I’d like to see more transparency in the market, the prices are all over the place and I’d like to think the market has moved on.

So you don’t consider your own well being worth paying for? I have to adm that hearing aids are very expensive. But what do you spend other things just for entertainment. I admit also that i am very fortunate and even spoiled due to my VA benefits. But with what i know now, and the realization that I can hear as well as I do with aids, i would find a way to get them if I had to pay for them myself. But I don’t and I feel obligated to volunteer to help others understand how to get the most out of their aids. And that starts with making sure you stick with the process of adjustments until your aids are the they should be adjusted for your needs. For me that was about 18 months of monthly adjustments, and several sets of aids and receiver changes. But it paid off, now when i get new aids my previous aids programs are copied to my new aids and the addition of the newer features are added. And I am normally set. But sometimes i have to have minor changes made.
So here is the thing it isn’t just lay your money out to the audiologist for the aids and that is it, it is also a dedication to ensure the aids are fitted correctly regardless of how many appointments and adjustments that is needed.

I can’t understand why anyone would pay more than $4,898 for a pair of Intent 1’s. That is the price of an online discounter with a local audiologist with 3 year warranty, two year loss protection, one year of fitting from a local audiologist and a cap on fees after one year. It has been my experience that the audiologists in their network are excellent, I assume there are areas where they don’t have an audiologist you want to work with but this gives you information to bargain with. I think that paying $7,000+ is unnessary. Why do people do it?