I have been wearing my Jabra Enhanced Pro 30s since May 18th. Here’s my impressions between the Enhanced Pro 20s which I wore since December 2024.
The sound quality is more natural sounding. The 20s sounded more shrill.
The background noise reduction is much better. My test restaurant is Texas Roadhouse, which is an extremely noisy place. When I walked inside my hearing aid app was in the “All Around” mode. The noise level was the usual very loud level. When we were seated, I switched to the “Hear in Noise” mode and the background noise reduction was amazing compared to the 20s. However, I could hear and understand my wife, my daughter, and the waitress very clearly.
While wearing them in other less challenging noisy environments the noise reduction is a big improvement over the 20s. I was impressed with the improvement.
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I am scheduled to get my Jabra Enhanced Pro 30s this Friday. I had the 20s, they were great in “All around” mode and the noise reduction was good too. But I found that in a noisy restaurant it was still a little difficult to make out some voices.
Last week I went to the noisiest restaurant I know, Texas Roadhouse. I have gone there wearing my Jabra 20s and found the noise reduction to be fair. However, when I walked in the restaurant was the usual crazy background noise. After sitting down at the table, I switched to hearing in noise, and was shocked to discover how much the noise was reduced and I could easily hear my wife, my adult daughter, and our waitress.
Appriciate you posting this. I have the Jabra 20’s and have been demo’ing the 9050’s for a few days. They don’t work as well as the Jabra’s in noisy resturants. But I have some profound hearing loss and still have a hard time with the 20’s in resturants. I think I’ll give the 30’s a shot. I’m out of the return window but if they allow me to hear better, I’m all for paying.
One of the Audio’s at Costco said their wasn’t much of a difference between the 20’s and 30’s, so was actually going to try the Sennheiser until I read this post.
My hearing aid specialist at Costco told me that she gets more information from her patients then from the sales brochures. I assume that your person has come to a similar conclusion.
I only had my Jabra 20s (by ReSound via Costco) for about two years. I got them because I wanted to try out the Marie microphones mounted on the receiver. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out due to feedback issues, so I ended up using regular receivers.
During those two years, I became increasingly frustrated with my ability to hear my friends in restaurants and bars, so I was watching the claims about technology closely. A couple of months ago, I decided to try the Jabra 30s, even though they didn’t receive glowing reviews. The price at Costco was $1700, low enough to be worth taking a chance, even if I just got a slight improvement.
As it turned out, part of my frustration was due to the fact that my hearing had declined a lot and I needed a programming update. We did this on my Jabra 20s and I liked the new settings. Wanting even more improvement, I decided to go for the Jabra 30s and simply return them if there was no improvement.
I made an interesting mistake when we were first setting up the Jabra 30s. On my last two pairs of hearing aids, also made by ReSound, I really liked the adjustable directionality in the phone app. That feature is called AutoScope and I had my fitter select that as the hear in noise directionality option.
When I tested my 30s in restaurants, I found they sounded a lot like my 20s and was disappointed. So I did some research on the ReSound website at this page:
I found Autoscope way down the list, below the newer options. There were two new programs listed that looked like what I wanted: Intelligent Focus and Clear Focus, which were listed in that order.
Since Intelligent Focus was listed at the top, I assumed it was the most recent product. Here is the description:
Intelligent Focus is designed for use in moderate to loud noise situations, when users need to maximize audibility for speech directly in front of them, and cut out as much noise as possible. It combines our strongest beamformer (Clear Focus) with Intelligent Noise Tracker, which reproduces a less noisy signal based on training via artificial intelligence technology. This results in more contrast between speech and unwanted noise for the listener.
Clear Focus was listed next, so I thought it was older:
In particularly noisy situations, the user may want an extra boost in order to listen only to a talker directly in front of them.
Clear Focus creates our strongest beamformer yet by activating directionality across more channels for maximum enhancement of sounds from the front.
Located in the app and with a very easy-to-access interface, users can control their sound experience to focus on what they want to listen to in high noise environments.
When I returned for my follow up visit, my fitter and I looked at the Smart Fit software, we found that Intelligent Focus was not a currently available option, so we chose Clear Focus. He also created a second hear in noise program which has the old Autoscope option so I could compare the two technologies side by side.
I was happy to see that Clear Focus still gives me some manual control of noise reduction level, although it doesn’t allow control of directionality like Autoscope did.
In my real life testing, I found that Clear Focus gave me noticeably better isolation of my friends’ voices than Autoscope does. It’s still not as good as I’d like, but it’s enough of an incremental improvement that I’m not going to return the Jabra 30s.
NOTE 1: if you follow the link I included above, you will be able to see some “white papers” published by the ReSound people about their various hear in noise options. You have to look at the very bottom to find the copyright date. The Clear Focus white paper is copyrighted 2026 and the Intelligent Focus white paper is copyrighted 2025, so I conclude that Clear Focus is the newer of the two technologies.
NOTE 2: I think it’s important to consider ReSound’s Intelligent Noise Tracker which works together with the beam forming system. It’s listed on the same page and there is a white paper you can read to learn more.
Intelligent Noise Tracker reduces unwanted background noise without degrading the quality of speech. Artificial intelligence technology was used to train the feature to estimate a “clean” signal without noise based on exposure to 13.5 million speech sentences and 3.9 million tuned sound parameters*.
This increases listening comfort in all types of listening environments, even in situations where beamforming is active but noise is still present in front of the listener.
My understanding is that only ‘intelligent focus’ turns the chip on. Intelligent focus is available only with Vivia 9-level aids like the Vivia 9 and Jabra EP 30. Clear focus is available with other levels of ReSound products.
I had the exact same experience. My Costco fitter had to activate intelligent focus. I don’t have the other function, auto-scope activated because this is the first time I know about it. However, I noticed a vast improvement in the “Hear in noise”, selection after activation of, “Intelligent focus” in the, Hear in Noise app. I think it’s more than an incremental improvement. BTW, Costco only charged me the additional $100 charge to upgrade to the Jabra EP 30s Becaise it was within the return period for the 20s. I will need to make an appointment to get the, “Auto-scope” function in an additional, “Hear in noise”, function on the app. Costco’s fitters are not trained to use the intelligent focus selection in the GN software.
Another interesting issue is that if you don’t switch back to, “All around”, function, then the battery hours of charge is reduced. If I select, “Hear in Noise”, at lunch, and don’t reset the app, then my hearing aid batteries will indicate being low on power at 10:00 o’clock at night.
So, can anyone explain the difference between Intelligent Focus and Clear Focus? I looked at the list of hear in noise options on the fitting software screen and Intelligent Focus wasn’t there. Just wondering why it wasn’t listed and if I’m missing out on better performance by not being able to use Intelligent Focus.
This is for the Jabra Enhance Pro 30 sold and fitted by Costco.
I printed the white paper from the ReSound website and told her I wanted her to set up the Intelligent Focus in her software. Which she did what I asked.
My understanding is that only ‘intelligent focus’ turns the DNN chip on. Intelligent focus is available only with Vivia 9-level aids like the Vivia 9 and Jabra EP 30
According to his post, he is evaluating the 30’s. There was no explanation why Intelligent focus wasn’t available, but it doesn’t appear to be due to the model he is evaluating.
I assume that Costco’s hearing aid fitters weren’t trained by GN, or Jabra. I was an early adopter of the Jabra EP 30s and my Costco hearing aid fitter set them up originally just like the 20s, which I traded for the 30s. I had to print the white paper from the Viva website and instruct her how to select intelligent focus in her software to get the effects of the and . I think that there are so many Costco hearing aid fitters that their training maybe not as good as a private audiologist. According to a Wall Street Journal article last year, Costco is the second largest purveyor of hearing aids in the U.S. after the Veterans Administration. And, other than the , whose hearing aids are free for veterans, Costco sells top of the line hearing aids for much less money, than private clinicians.
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