{"id":13590,"date":"2020-02-15T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heiniger-net.blog-net.ch\/?p=13590"},"modified":"2020-02-16T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T14:12:08","slug":"review-hoerhilfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heiniger-net.blog-net.ch\/en\/archives\/13590\/review-hoerhilfe\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of a low-cost hearing aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dig\u00adi\u00adtal blue\u00adtooth Hear\u00ading Aid USB<\/span> Recharge\u00adable Sound Ampli\u00adfi\u00ader Deaf-aid Audi\u00adphone Behind Ear<\/p><\/div>\n

For years I reg\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly buy cheap goods from Chi\u00adna at wish.com. I am often pos\u00adi\u00adtive\u00adly sur\u00adprised. Of course you can\u2019t expect top qual\u00adi\u00adty, but under the giv\u00aden cir\u00adcum\u00adstances, sur\u00adpris\u00ading\u00adly good stuff often arrives in my mailbox.<\/p>\n

In any case, I found this device in the Wish cat\u00ada\u00adlogue, enti\u00adtled \u201cDig\u00adi\u00adtal blue\u00adtooth Hear\u00ading Aid USB<\/span> Recharge\u00adable Sound Ampli\u00adfi\u00ader Deaf-aid Audi\u00adphone Behind Ear\u201d, adver\u00adtised in the pic\u00adture as a wire\u00adless hear\u00ading amplifier.<\/p>\n

This is promis\u00ading, I thought, and ordered two of them. These things are not only sup\u00adposed to ampli\u00adfy the ambi\u00adent sound, as hear\u00ading aids should, but also con\u00adnect wire\u00adless\u00adly to the mobile phone via Blue\u00adtooth in order to lis\u00adten to music or even make phone calls. They also have recharge\u00adable bat\u00adter\u00adies that can be charged via USB<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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I know since about a year that my hear\u00ading is no longer the best. The ear spe\u00adcial\u00adist diag\u00adnosed a hear\u00ading loss of about 25% in both ears in the high\u00ader fre\u00adquen\u00adcy range. This hear\u00ading loss is with\u00adin the nor\u00admal range for my age, just under 60, so she rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded that I get fit\u00adted hear\u00ading aids from a hear\u00ading health care pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal. She said it was bet\u00adter to start with a hear\u00ading aid right away than, say, at the age of 80, when the audi\u00adto\u00adry nerve was already so dam\u00adaged that hard\u00adly any\u00adthing could be done any\u00admore. At this time, on the oth\u00ader hand, the audi\u00adto\u00adry nerve can still be trained to com\u00adpen\u00adsate for the lack. It is also con\u00adceiv\u00adable that my tin\u00adni\u00adtus could weak\u00aden as a result. It is pos\u00adsi\u00adble that tin\u00adni\u00adtus occurs because oth\u00ader\u00adwise there is total silence around these frequencies.<\/p>\n

Well, I fol\u00adlowed her advice and con\u00adsult\u00aded a hear\u00ading aid spe\u00adcial\u00adist. He explained to me that there are hear\u00ading aids in many qual\u00adi\u00adty lev\u00adels and price ranges. The most expen\u00adsive one was a Phonak device for about 8000 Swiss francs, equipped with all the frills such as recharge\u00adable bat\u00adter\u00adies and a Blue\u00adtooth con\u00adnec\u00adtion to a mobile phone. Cheap\u00ader devices would work with exchange\u00adable but\u00adton cells and would not have Blue\u00adtooth on board. As my bud\u00adget is a bit tight at the moment, I lim\u00adit\u00aded myself to what the insur\u00adance com\u00adpa\u00adny reim\u00adburs\u00ades me. In Switzer\u00adland, the dis\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty insur\u00adance IV<\/span> pays up to 1850 francs for hear\u00ading aids. I got a pair of such hear\u00ading aids, Widex brand, with which I am quite satisfied.<\/p>\n

Now I was curi\u00adous about the Chi\u00adnese cheap hear\u00ading ampli\u00adfiers, espe\u00adcial\u00adly about their Blue\u00adtooth capa\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty. But even before I ordered them, it was clear to me that, log\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, I could not expect the qual\u00adi\u00adty and range of func\u00adtions of a Phonak device. I there\u00adfore assumed that the fre\u00adquen\u00adcy response could only be influ\u00adenced with\u00adin nar\u00adrow lim\u00adits or not at all.<\/p>\n

I ordered two pieces in beige and two weeks lat\u00ader I had them in my mail\u00adbox. The price was indi\u00adcat\u00aded as 32.00 Swiss franks instead of 343.00 per piece, with a ship\u00adping fee of 12.00 added. So two of them cost a total of 88 francs. If you take the offi\u00adcial cat\u00ada\u00adlogue price, two pieces would be 710, but prob\u00ada\u00adbly nobody pays that price. When I com\u00adpare this price with the Phonak devices, there are worlds apart. Are they worlds apart in terms of functionality?<\/p>\n

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