Is anyone using a Specsavers hearing aid.

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I am fed up of my NHS hearing aid so I am booked into Specsavers tomorrow for hearing check and possible new aids.
I can't believe the prices for these things when you look at a smart phone then one of these- do they spin the dice to come up with a price.

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I have no idea what brand the NHS aids are - I am sure I need another test so that may be the problem but with lock down it's not going to happen soon -
I have never really got on with hearing aids from day 1- They hurt the ear even though I have tried two plug sizes (I have the behind the ear unit with pipe down to a small bud in ear) If I take a tee shirt off/on they squeel -same when my ear get's near back of chair etc. - Sound is horrendous -women on TV have very skreechy voices and back ground noise is unbareable at times.

I like the idea that the latest ones can be paired to the TV and you can use them as earphones also pair to phone and use them on calls.

I just don't seem to get on with them.

Just checked battery book - I had them October 2012 and never had a updated check up.
 
Had a test yesterday and he put you in a sound proof booth with headphones and a press button.

He fitted me up with a pair and told me to take a 10min walk out into Shrewsbury main high steet - Big mistake - I was out for an hour as the crumpet was so disgustingly underdress'd I couldn't take my eyes off it - No idea what sound was like.

Seriously it was a revelation -= so so much better than my old ones.
He then cleaned wax from my lugholes and showed me his list and one he had used - in the end I picked the top notch one with all the gismo's.
I am a babyboomer pensioner bringing in £10k a month :rolleyes: so it was back pocket change.
get them on Friday and a bit of research says they are Phonak or another Swiss maker. I will ask the question Friday - whether he will tell me is another matter.
 
Today was the end of a 2.5 month trial and error.

My first set of aids were Specsavers own - top of range and they were so so much better than NHS but after wearing them for a few weeks it became obvious they were flawed -BT dropping out after an hour or so-then they reverted back to auto setting so all in all crap.
So went back under the 100 day return and he had a pair of Phonak aids on charger for me so he set them up and off I went.
Now we were taking - BT is solid -stays on the setting -Make and recieve phone calls great - It's just like having caller sat next to you and you don't even have to shout - Brilliant.
Hearing people around you talking is going to always be hit and miss -I set then up for wifes voice and I could hear her but I think because I could she has reverted to TV speak - Mumbling. - So I point two fingers at her eyes then to mine and say look at me.

The main thing is I don't even know I am wearing them - The NHS ones were so uncomfortable I never put left ear one in.

So now £2.4k worse off - But is it worth it - Yes it is even just for the phone calls - I don't have to hold that brick of a PoCo X3 to my earole.

I have had my Focus for 11 years and first thing I said to salesman was can you turn up the sound if the indicators - No he said - Well now I can hear them but they have also lowered the road noise and car sounds quite good now rather than a tin half full of nuts.
 
Yes I have the app and today dialled in wifes screech - also TV and Cafe.

To be honest I have no idea what he did - I sat in a sound proof booth with headphones on and he sent all sorts of sound through where I had to press a button if I heard them.
I think now the tests are a bit more tech than they used to be -- 10 yrs ago with the NHS ones they did put mic's on my shoulders and where ever - What he did was use the hearing aid in some way to prog them - He could even test for feed back while in my ear.
There is a great deal of difference between Specsavers aids and Phonak one but only a few hundred quid difference.
Making phone calls is great - so much clearer than pressing phone to your ear.

Perhaps your relation could get a cheap smart phone just for the hearing aids and use it like a remote like tv.
 
I have the Phonak from Specsavers and using the phone is great -I just put phone down and talk -I do not miss holding it to my ear.
Don't ask me how it works as I have to go back to Specsavers to sort it out - BT is well over my head as my earlier aid was a big horn I held to my ear. :)
 
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