Oticon Real 1 vs Philips Hearlink 9040 (huge price difference)

I may be wrong, but I don’t think there are loop channels for left and right anyway. Nor would the Tcoil have the ability to differentiate and pick one channel over the other. So I think Tcoil is always mono, but I would love to be wrong on this.

It looks like you are correct, telecoil is mono (or perhaps dual mono) unless using something like Music Links. This is probably one of several reasons why telecoil doesn’t seem very popular and Auracast is supposed to be a dramatic shift.

@user1078 said:

So far I do not see any major difference between the two but it has been only one day so I got a long way to go to compare.

I’ll post a comparison report in about 30 days.

@user1078 Did I miss the final comparison or was it posted in another thread. Thanks

Speaking of telecoil, yesterday, I was comparing telecoil (using the Bellman & Symfon High Powered Neck Loop, $80) to the Philips AudioClip ($260) with my 9040’s. Also plugged the loop into my iPad. The AudioClip had much deeper bass, but the neck loop performance was totally acceptable…would not have a problem using it for Zoom meetings. I checked the loop out from my university library, but may buy one anyway as my church does not have telecoil installed. They do have assistive listening devices with plug in speakers that clip over the ears…I could just plug the loop into the receiver. I know a number of members that have HAs and it would be nice to have the neck loops on hand for those that can use them.