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Ripping people off is not necessarily meaning they are the cheapest, it means giving the best overall service and expertise thats goes with it.
Is anyone using a Specsavers hearing aid.
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Ripping people off is not necessarily meaning they are the cheapest, it means giving the best overall service and expertise thats goes with it.
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relation has some re-branded Phonak Paradise's sold by SpecSavers, maybe someone has advice on following issues
1. Bluetooth connection from (i)phone using phone mic.
He doesn't currently use bluetooth for phone calls, we tried this out and it improved what he was hearing, but his voice was being sent from the hear-aid mic's themselves,
and had a very low volume, I couldn't find a way to fix this, or just tell the system to use the phones mic.
Also did not experiment with whether you can use speakerphone at the same time as BT, so (better hearing) others could hear call at the same time
2. Specsavers supply these with domes/tubes
Specsavers ddin't offer these with the more (NHS) conventional fitted Cshell earl molds he would find more comfortable - trying to find out if they could ?
3. Voip phones compatability
BT are soon replacing relations line with digital voice, current dect phone does not offer bluetooth capability compatible with hearing aids V
so getting them a voip phone that does, maybe a game changer - does anyone know of one
neither of ones from recent phone thread do
relation has some re-branded Phonak Paradise's sold by SpecSavers, maybe someone has advice on following issues
1. Bluetooth connection from (i)phone using phone mic.
He doesn't currently use bluetooth for phone calls, we tried this out and it improved what he was hearing, but his voice was being sent from the hear-aid mic's themselves,
and had a very low volume, I couldn't find a way to fix this, or just tell the system to use the phones mic.
Also did not experiment with whether you can use speakerphone at the same time as BT, so (better hearing) others could hear call at the same time
2. Specsavers supply these with domes/tubes
Specsavers ddin't offer these with the more (NHS) conventional fitted Cshell earl molds he would find more comfortable - trying to find out if they could ?
3. Voip phones compatability
BT are soon replacing relations line with digital voice, current dect phone does not offer bluetooth capability compatible with hearing aids V
so getting them a voip phone that does, maybe a game changer - does anyone know of one
neither of ones from recent phone thread do
Soldato
Has he already purchased them? Is he within the return window?
If yes to both I’d be returning them and finding a good independent audiologist
If yes to both I’d be returning them and finding a good independent audiologist
Soldato
Bluetooth hearing aids are available from the NHS, I have them fitted now but not sure if they have all the features of the really expensive ones
The specsavers ones do seem to be an oem/phonak product for less ££, even independently you can't try out an arbitrary number of products, and you/they don't know what fitting type maybe best for you
he has NHS ones too that he uses more than the specsavers ones, primarily because they are more comfortable;
yes I think BT is probably on his NHS ones, just didn't wan't to risk trying it out during visit in case it left them in a precarious state, a reset wouldn't fix.
BT on Phonic hearing aids requires the specialist, whether NHS or private, to turn it on. Once it's activated, a single hearing aid will present itself for BT connection on a phone. There's nothing that will result in something being left in a "precarious state" - it's just like adding BT headphones. So it's worth trying as it does make a big difference having sound fed direct to your ears. The only potential issue is that the BT connection is automatic once set up so it's always a surprise to hear the amount of pings, dings and woops that phone alerts make and hearing them right in your ears even if your phone isn't nearby!
the phonak just needed to be reset (we did that) and for first couple of minutes can be linked with a compatible phone -
I'd assumed this standard handsfree interface with a phone would allow the sounds/alerts to be limited to just those related to phone calls ... like, I thought, they were in a car hands free interface.
Handsfree interface is different I thought to linking BT headphones where you would hear all of your phones sounds - but he doesn't use social media so wouldn't have pings/dings.
In my own case, the BT interface is more like headphones than a handsfree phone connection
Soldato
Any half decent true indie will absolutely let you try as many types as you want. That’s part of the attraction to private. Once they have you and assuming they treat you well, they have a customer for life.
Bluetooth is configurable and how the sounds are fed to your ears. Is a different standard of Bluetooth compared to headphones.
In short tell your friend to find a decent indie and in short the problems will be solved. Widex and Octicon are the leading brands at the moment.
Commissario
Yup
My dad's most recent set (last year) have the bluetooth function that works with iphones, AfAIK it's a profile that isn't supported by may android phones/android by default though. I looked into the cost of the adaptor for android and it was something silly like £150 for what was basically a bluetooth to bluetooth bridge from what I could tell (iirc it connected to the android phone like normal bluetooth earphones then connected to the hearing aids by their protocol).
Soldato
Now I have more time to reply, these type of things scenarios are exactly why hearing aids get a bad reputation from users. All of these questions should be tailored to audiologists who will tailor & suggest different hearing aids for individual use. Honestly, if you can return them do so and find an independent one. Failing that, take them back to Specsavers and make them earn some of the money that has been to them.
Apple developed a standard for iPhones years ago, Android is did fragmented Android things! Fast forward to today, a new standard is out called https://www.bluetooth.com/auracast/ which is hopefully going to consolidate everything bluetooth and audio related. The hearing aids I have just purchased have this built already I have my fingers crossed.
Apple developed a standard for iPhones years ago, Android is did fragmented Android things! Fast forward to today, a new standard is out called https://www.bluetooth.com/auracast/ which is hopefully going to consolidate everything bluetooth and audio related. The hearing aids I have just purchased have this built already I have my fingers crossed.
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.
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.