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Hi. I was on this forum several years ago and it was very helpful. At the time, I got the Kirkland 9.0 hearing aids for my cookie bite hearing loss (this was I think about 6 years ago). Over the years, they seemed pretty good till about 2 years ago and I was told when I saw the specialist at Costco that one ear has worsened and there are now better options.

What my main concern is has to do with hearing speech optimally. I take classes and usually manually raise volume up one notch above the middle point of volume. This seems to work pretty well, but if the teacher lowers voice or mumbles there's a problem. Also, I find in small groups in class I don't hear great and also in restaurants or if I meet friends where there are high ceilings. I had started with the open domes and now have the small . (They once gave me the bigger closed domes to try, but that was really not good and it was especially a problem when I saw people in person that spoke softly).

I don't care about music, but main concern is speech. I still use the 6 year old ones I have but plan to go in to ask them about things, but was wondering if anyone ha experience since the Kirkland 9.0 ones! Also, I find when the air conditioning goes on it seems to really make it hard to hear other person even though they have the noise reduced significantly. This also happens when driving with and if there are road noises etc. I am fine with adjusting manually the volume throughout a situation, but am not sure what are good options at this point! Thanks for any ideas.

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You don't post your audogram so it's hard to say exactly what a good set up would be, but your a perfect candidate for a upgrade to later models like sphere from Phonak,those Marvel platform are getting a bit old now, so pop in to your local audiologist to trial some, Costco is a great place to start but they don't stock the sphere at this time, they have Sennheiser which is the rebranded infinio.

Was the programming for the aids updated after your hearing test showed a change? Are the aids serviced and cleaned regularly? Any moisture issues? Newer can help but sometimes it is a simple issue with the existing aids.

Many new aids are announced or will be soon so you may want to start the process but wait a short time to see what Costco will be getting.

In reply to @tenkan

Thank you so much. I don't think they gave me a copy of my audogram when I had it done about 6 months ago. I don't know if I can afford something aside from Costco. I have to read more about the Sennheiser. I appreciate this. Will have to go down there to speak to someone this week.

In reply to @user490

Good idea to see what is coming down the pike at Costco. I don't think the aids were updated (just the buds were changed out). But they were cleaned again a few months later. It is a problem with hearing in restaurants for sure, but also small groups in classroom as the microphones are on the back of ear so it seems that I hear people behind me as loudly as in front of me. The other thing is hearing the ac coming on and how that can be competing with someone's voice. I just am most concerned about hearing speech as clearly as possible as well as making the background sounds lower.

Costco will update the programming for free so why not have it updated to match your latest test and see how that goes. Depending on the you may even need more powerful receivers and Costco can swap those. It's good to have even a backup pair of aids up to date.

Are there not directional mic options in the app for that gen aid? Maybe there are tweaks or even additional programs that the Costco fitter can enable such as a classroom program. Someone here is likely more familiar with the options on that gen aid.

Thank you! I think they did update programming a little or adjusting a few things when I was there. I had tried bigger earbuds and found them too occlusive plus really bad in small group settings but good idea to have things updated again as I go in and ask them about the newer options and what may be coming there down the pike. I know the Sennheiser doesn't have the advanced sphere chip and have to ask about that!

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