Hearing assistance

[rainbowcat]

My wife has been complaining for about a year that my hearing is shot. So, to prove her wrong, I scheduled a hearing test and now am the proud owner of a new set of Jabra Hearing Aids, designed to work with the iPhone. (Yeah, she was right, again, as usual.)

I've been doing some searching on how best to coordinate with the iPhone, but thought I'd ask here to see if anybody is using the Jabra Enhance Pro PM aids with their iPhone. I have the Jabra app installed, and sort-of understand it. I did try to let the music from the iPhone stream to the Jabra's, but the results were very, very tinny and not very good, so I just let it play as normal, either through my BT Bose speakers or just from the iPhone.

Phone calls were also a bit tinny and hollow, so I haven't paired that either.

My hearing loss is high frequency, probably from being around jet engines (or getting old, or maybe both), so I understand that the "profile" is pushing the higher frequencies, but by "tinny" I'm talking worse than the early days of transistor radios, with a 1.5" speaker. No base at all.

In normal use the sound I hear isn't tinny, so I think it's a setting somewhere.

Any hints here? I'm going to keep looking around to see if there is a site with "experts" on this subject, too, but have struck out so far.

If your hearing aids are properly adjusted you should be able to hear clearly on your phone without streaming. I have Phonak hearing aids, and also have a high frequency hearing loss. I can hear just fine with my iPhone on speaker. If I stream, it's tinny and weird, so I don't stream from my phone. Check your settings for hearing aid compatibility too.

Apologies if this is double posted - cat jumped on laptop!

 

[MacInWin]

If your hearing aids are properly adjusted, you should be able to hear on your phone without streaming. I have Phonak hearing aids, high frequency loss too, and yes, it's very tinny and weird when you pair. Depends on the sound you like better!

Oh, yeah, the iPhone (and house phone, for that matter), works great with the Jabra set. I prefer to just hold the phone as usual, although I like my hands free, so I tend to use the speaker option. Either way, the sound is good. But if I pair them up for phone calls, it's really tinny. I can hear, but it's annoying, so I dropped that pretty quickly. It is just that I like to listen to music, and I have a set of Beats that are fantastic. So when I'm in the music mode, I take out the Jabra and put in the Beats. I have adjusted the Equalizer to have a bit more on the highs, now that I know I need it. The sound cancelling on the Beats is good, too. I'm adjusting to it.

 

[rainbowcat]

Oh, yeah, the iPhone (and house phone, for that matter), works great with the Jabra set. I prefer to just hold the phone as usual, although I like my hands free, so I tend to use the speaker option. Either way, the sound is good. But if I pair them up for phone calls, it's really tinny. I can hear, but it's annoying, so I dropped that pretty quickly. It is just that I like to listen to music, and I have a set of Beats that are fantastic. So when I'm in the music mode, I take out the Jabra and put in the Beats. I have adjusted the Equalizer to have a bit more on the highs, now that I know I need it. The sound cancelling on the Beats is good, too. I'm adjusting to it.

That's the problem with hearing aids - no more headphones. I don't like taking out my "ears" to use my iPod (ancient one - doesn't stream) but so goes it. I'm most grateful to have a fabulous audiologist who enabled me to hear normally again.

 

[lbsimon50]

Just a little bit off-topic. With age we all lose sensitivity to high frequency sounds. Mine happened around 66-68. There are devices that use this phenomena. I remember reading about phone message sounds that the kids in the classroom here, while the teacher does not. Or an opposite effect, such as a small convenience store that was pestered by teenagers. The owner installed powerful high frequency outdoor speakers that the adults would not hear and it would not bother them, while the teenagers had to leave the place.