Phonak Lumity Naida 90 UP BTE Review

Never actually seen Curastops on BTE tubing @PeterH, and I have handled hundreds of sets of aids, when I worked with Deaf Services, I thought these wax guards where for helping to protect the receivers in RIC aids, I can’t see their purpose in BTE tubing? Please enlighten me, I am always keen to learn Cheers Kev

My Bolero M70s have the options of:

1. Anchors-thick tubes-moulds
2. Thin tubes-domes
3. Thin tubes-slim tips

Slimtips are usually used with RIC, so filters are needed with those, I suppose they aren’t needed when attached to thin tubes, although I still fitted them doh!

Peter

Don’t worry about it @PeterH we all make mistakes, none more so than me, if you have always worn RIC’s, and nobody told you, you might easily assume you use wax guards, You don’t need them with BTE tubing… I am the opposite, I have always used BTE’s, apart from a Set of CIC aids, many years ago, my NHS Audi bought & fitted them for me, out of his own pocket, and of course the Marvel RIC’s, with custom moulds… Those CIC aids where analog, and excellent aids, but they eventually packed in, after 2 or 3 years, and I had moved back to Shetland, so I had no one to repair them for me, I don’t recall whom made them, it’s about 30 years ago? Cheers Kev

To be fair, RIC is very new to me, as I bought the P90’s last year, and then the slimtips. I’ve had BTE since 2009
Peter

Thanks Peter.

They’ll take some getting used to…

I currently have P90 312s with cshell snail and UP receiver and, given my serious/profound loss, the frequency transposition was activated to be able to recover some of the frequencies above 2000.

If I were to get a Naida 90 UP BTE, it would be more suitable for my type of loss and I could therefore avoid frequency transposition: would this lead to an improvement in audio quality? Would I also be able to speak the dialogues better?

@lello58 said:

If I were to get a Naida 90 UP BTE, it would be more suitable for my type of loss

I believe so, I’m surprised you haven’t tried these before given you loss.

@lello58 said:

and I could therefore avoid frequency transposition: would this lead to an improvement in audio quality?

Possibly, as your not shifting much with sound recover any way, but you need to set up a trial with your Audiology clinic, it’s the only way you’ll know or not for sure, no one else can possibly tell you this.

It’s more than that @marnold, it’s clarity… Having never done, a word recognition score, it is not done much this side of the pond, well, I have never encountered a WRS… As I write this, I am in the carport, I can hear the birds tweeting all around the garden, fairly loudly, it’s the clarity these Lumity UP’s give me… And yes, in noise we will all struggle, it’s just the nature of the beast, hearing folks struggle in loud noise, why should hearing impaired think they will hear, they won’t… Not unless you are using a Roger Remote Mic? Thinking out loud, I have probably 2 major assets over most folks in loud noise, no matter how loud it is, I can communicate via lip reading & BSL (British Sign Language)I am a good/excellent lip reader, been thinking about this a lot lately, am I actually hearing the speaker in loud noise, or has my brain become so used to lip reading, could well be it’s a combination of sound & sight intertwined??? The next time I am in a loud/noisy Pub, I will have to see if I can differentiate on what I am actually hearing, as opposed to what I am actually lip reading? Cheers Kev

@kevels55 - with P70 BTE, I can hear the car turning signal noise and alarm sound of the swaying into the other lane but not Xceed. Still need to fine-tuned the P70 as the streaming sound from Video/phone calls is tinny and affecting the clarity and understanding of the words. I think the setting is not correct.
As we do not used lip-reading, we have to depend on the HA’s to understand the speaker. As we are in a multi racial country, we used a mixed of different dialects to communicate - English, mandarin, Cantonese & Bahasa! Cheers…Dan

We have 70% Malays, 27% Chinese & 3% indian + others. Most Malaysian speak 2-4 dialects. English, Mandarin & Malay (Bahasa). Chinese speak Cantonese, Hakka & Hokkien as their local dialects. So it is very hard to lip read if you do not speak their dialects or language. Even the electronic translator give up!
High humidity & heat is common here, but we are not out in the hot sun every day. We have air conditioned rooms as office. When during exercise, we just remove he HA’s. Put it in the drier during the night.

Strangely enough, in BSL (British Sign Language) this has regional variations, certain signs are different up and down the UK, but there are also what’s called “Multi-channels” these are unique to BSL, and they have no direct translation into English… A Deaf person can easily recognise where someone is from via these regional variations in BSL, it’s a bit like an accent… Personally, I have a strong interest in languages, the main dialect in Shetland is called “Norn” Burgh being an extreme version of this, I can hold a very basic conversation in Norn…I can also converse in “The Cant” Romany Gypsy or travellers language, my first wife was off the travellers, and my mother in law taught me “The Cant”, I wouldn’t say I was fluent, but I can converse… And of course BSL, again, I am not fluent, but I can hold a meaningful conversation… Cheers Kev

Fascinating story Kev…
My ancestors came here in about 1835.
I asked my Father to do a family history for us because I didn’t know much (really nothing at all.) He never did. He passed in '93, and my Mother in 6 weeks. He was away most of my youth. At sea.

DaveL

First try with the Naida P30s. The 675 batteries lasted 13 days

Peter

13 days is excellent Peter, you can’t be doing a great deal of streaming? I usually get 11 or 12 days, with moderate streaming, plus I leave the app always connected, although I don’t know why, as I rarely use the thing? I am going to try the 675 Cochlear Implant batteries, they reckon they are more robust, and last longer than normal 675’s, how much longer, I’m not sure, the CI batteries are slightly more expensive, probably around a fiver more, for 60? Cheers Kev

Edit; After checking the prices, might be more like a tenner upwards on CI 675 batteries, much depends on whom makes them, I will order some via Amazon in the next few days, and try them out…