This may seem like an incongruous comparison — an hearing aid vs. a traditionally dispensed one. With the Sony currently costing about $1,000, the Oticon Intents easily cost five or six times more. Yet the fabulous HearAdvisor web site gives them the highest rating of all hearing devices26, above the Intents. I have also read billgem’s detailed review.
In particular, for speech in noise, the Intents are rated a 3.7 (after tuning), while the Sonys a 4.3. The question is: qualitatively speaking, how much better are the Sonys than the Intents (and the Mores)?
For all practical purposes, I really need hearing aids only for speech in noise (I have mild—to moderate hearing loss) because I can hear quite well in most other (i.e. low-noise) situations. And in speech-in-noise situations, my Oticon More 1s let me down most of the time.
I’m interested in hearing from those who have tried both the Intents and the Sonys. On the surface, the Sonys seem like a no-brainer for someone like me.
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