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Sennheiser Conversation Clear Plus vs Sony cr e10

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I live in the U.K. and would like to buy some Sony cr e10’s but they are not available in this country for some reason. The Apple airpods pro firmware is not available here yet.The nearest things are the Sennheiser Conversation Clear Plus, which are about £300 cheaper than the Sony’s
Does anyone have experience of these and are they as good as the Sony aids ?
Does anyone know of any other earpod type hearing device that works ?

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Can’t you buy them direct from Sony on line? Or from another on line vender? Since they’re , there’s no audiologist involved. So, buying direct from Sony would seem to be the simple solution. I believe that Sony gives you a 60 day trial period.

You would think so, wouldnt you…
But no, Sony u.k. dont sell them and Sony U.S. wont ship to u.k. !
I cant find anyone else who sells them. They were on Amazon u.k. for a short time but no longer…

Oh fantastic buy, yeah it just depends on how much your willing to pay for shipping, fast is 5 - 7 days.

Good, the Sonys are great. As good as top aids for speech and better for music and streaming. The Bluetooth is limited and charging is finicky but overall good aids.

I use the Conversation Clear Plus and like them a lot. My hearing is different than many of you. My left ear doesn’t work at all – just tinnitus. My right ear works pretty well but where I need help is, like most of us, in restaurants and groups of people. I use the right Sennheiser and keep the left one in my pocket (the App wants both to connect). I tried four other standard types of hearing aids before I settled on these and none of them helped as much in noisy environments. Good luck with the Sonys – they’ve gotten good reports here.

Yours is identical to my own hearing problem. I purchased $3k hearing aids a couple of years ago which were meant to be state of the art but just sounded scratchy and tinny to me. In a room with other people I eventually had to remove them as my hearing was worse with them in. They were then lost/stolen. I have been researching the Sennheiser conversation clear Plus and I think I will take the plunge and buy them. Thank you for the advice

I tried these years ago and ended up returning them because there was no way to manually control the level of noise cancellation in “Communicate” mode, which is what you’ll be using most of the time if you want to use them as hearing aids rather than earbuds. In situations where the noise level was just on the border of the trigger, or where it fluctuated a lot, it would go from ‘fine’ to ‘inaudibly noisy’ seemingly at random. That was the program automatically dropping from high to medium noise cancellation.

The most stark example was when my husband and I were driving down the highway in his noisy car, trying to listen to an audiobook on the car’s speakers. Most of the time, I couldn’t hear it well enough to follow it, but sometimes - seemingly at random - I’d get 5-10 seconds of really good clarity. I eventually figured out that when another car passed us, that increase in background noise kicked up the level of noise cancellation temporarily. It was frustrating because I knew the devices had the ability to do what I needed, but there was no way to force them to do it the rest of the time.

It looks like they may have made some adjustments to the app since then, so maybe that’s possible now. I liked them, and had it not been for that issue, I would have kept them.

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