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Oticon Dual Connect XW Review

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:35:22 +0000

The Oticon Dual Connect XW has a small stylish design and even so it can pack many state of the art technologies for hearing aids. It is small and has many colors, either to blend with your hairstyle or to be fashion trendy. So that you do not have to choose between having a small hearing aid that doesn’t perform well or a big hearing aid that has a good performance.

It has fantastic sound quality, it is small and virtually invisible, has no controls so it is easy to use for new users, and it almost doesn’t look like a hearing aid. It has a fantastic sound quality delivered through a bandwidth of 10KHz, Spatial Surround Sound, and can be connected to your cellphone or MP3.

Oticon Dual Connect XW Specifications

Advanced Binaural Processing
Binaural Synchronization
Binaural Coordination
Expanded Bandwidth of 10 KHz
Binaural Dynamic Feedback Cancellation
Life Learning Technology
Connect to Cellphone or MP3
My Voice feature

High End Hearing Aid, Perfect and Yet So Small

The Oticon Dual Connect XW is a fully automated hearing aid that does not need you to do any changing with the settings, even though it can optionally give you full control. It is based on the RISE technology from Oticon, which provides you with fast audio processing and superior sound quality in all kinds of hearing environments.

The Binaural Dynamic Feedback Cancellation is one of the best in the industry. The whole hearing aid has a finishing treatment with a nanocoating moisture that prevents corrosion, and the receiver has a double layer of wax filters. It has 140 hours of battery life with a standard 312 battery. It will switch automatically to the phone program if you answer your phone or cellphone.

Both hearing aids work as one exchanging constantly data and processing it with the spatial surround compression system so that it will sound as natural as possible. It was designed as a right in the ear hearing aid that improves the sound quality, high frequency amplification and the localization is better done.

Another amazing feature is the My Voice feature that recognizes when you are talking and when you are listening and can adapt the settings accordingly so that you can have a better speech understanding when in conversations. This hearing aid is the top of the line from Oticon and one of the best in the whole hearing aid industry.

Oticon Dual Connect XW at a Glance…

Pros:

Fully automated
High Tech Features
State of the Art Technology
Perfect Performance

Cons:

None

The Oticon Dual Connect XW is close to perfection when it comes to dual hearing aids. It has a fantastic pack of high tech features that deliver you a high quality sound and a performance that takes this hearing aid to the top of hearing aids. Even if expensive, it is a worth investment that will last for years in your hands.

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Interton Bionic Review

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:23:33 +0000

The Interton Bionic has caused some hype due to its innovative ADRO system, it is an Adaptative Dynamic Range Optimization system, which increases or reduces gain only when needed. It is the signal processing method that stands behind all the other features that we normally read about in hearing aids.

This processing method was used with success in cochlear implants and is now available in innovative hearing aids like the Interton Bionic. With it the soft sounds are audible, loud sounds are controlled at comfortable levels and all sounds, especially speech, gets to you in a good volume and with quality.

Interton Bionic Specifications

Adaptative Dynamic Range Optimization
Adaptive Feedback Management
Adaptive Beam Forming
Available in different colors
Behind the Ear and In The Ear models

Bionic with ADRO, Adaptative Dynamic Range Optimization

The Interton Bionic isn’t much about bells and whistles, it is about the core of evry hearing aid, the processing of sounds. It integrates the ADRO, or Adaptative Dynamic Range Optimization which only enhances the other features and the performance of this marvelous hearing aid. It is almost organically integrated in your hearing experience due to this system artificial intelligence.

Its signal isn’t anymore static like in the older models of hearing aids, it is dynamic and flexible, so that it can quickly and efficiently adapt to your surroundings and the diversity of sounds that you may encounter in your daily journey. So it enables you to understand speech more clearly and other sounds with more comfort because the sound signals processed are not compressed by the ADRO.

It has a completely new algorithm that takes the hearing aids digital technology to a new level, prioritizing comfort and speech understanding, when with other models you’d have to compromise one for the other, the Bionic offers you both.

Interton Bionic at a Glance…

Pros:

Hearing Comfort
Digitally Advanced, State of the Art
Natural Sound

Cons:

None

Interton Bionic has all of the features you would expect in a high end device. It has: adaptive beam forming, adaptive feedback management, the ADRO system, and more. More important it is a new and much simpler method for finding the perfect fit in digital signal processing hearing aids.

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Oticon Delta 8000 Review

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:35:09 +0000

The Oticon Delta 8000 has an innovative design that has won design awards for its sleek lines that are so appealing to people that like an hearing aid that is virtually invisible and yet comfortable, with a great sound quality. It is available n 17 colors, from smart to sporty patterns and metallic colors that can please everyone. It has a beautiful triangular shape design, with a transparent sound wire connected to a tiny microphone that does in your ear.

The hearing aid works by itself adapting to your sound environments and providing you with the best sound quality, it was built around an artificial intelligent system that combines sound quality, speech understanding and comfort.

Oticon Delta 8000 Specifications

Artificial Intelligence System
Up to 8 Channels
TriState Noise Management with VoiceFinder
Dynamic Feedback Cancellation
Automatic Adaptation Manager
Enhanced Bandwidth
Automatic Multiband Adaptive Directionality

Leave Your Hearing in this Hearing Aid Hands

The Oticon Delta 8000 is equipped with the most advanced directionality system in the industry of hearing aids. Its Artificial Intelligence system automatically adapts the microphones to find speech patterns and make them more understandable to you. It works with the Noise Management system so that the surrounding noise doesn’t get in the way of your conversations.

The whole hearing aid is controlled by the Artificial Intelligence system that mimics the human brain, it receives all the data from your sound surroundings and analyzes it to change the settings on the hearing aid so that wherever you are, it can adapt itself to your surroundings and enhance speech and important sounds for you while reducing the noise.

It also has a memory system that keeps important information about your surroundings so that with the help of your hearing care professional you can set the hearing aid in the best performance for your own personal lifestyle. Then everything will culminate with a superior sound quality delivered by a comfortable to wear microphone in your ear, built with soft dome or micro mould.

Oticon Delta 8000 at a Glance…

Pros:

Comfortable
Stylish and Virtually Invisible
Completely Automated

Cons:

None

The Oticon Delta 8000 is not only beautiful and well designed exteriorly, because the best of this hearing aid is found well within where it matters. It has an Artificial Intelligence system that really works in enhancing speech understanding and combines all the great features of this hearing aid to work as one for the benefit of your hearing. It just replaces your brain in dealing with sounds and delivering a great sound quality.

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Oticon Dual Mini m9 Review

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:45:15 +0000

The Oticon Dual Mini m9 is the best from the Dual Mini series of Oticon, other than the Mini 9 you also can check the Mini 7 and Mini 5. The differences between them are significant from the Mini 9 to the Mini 5, but the Mini 7 is just as good as the Mini 9, maybe with a little less sound quality and some convenient features. In the end it is all about how much you can pay for a hearing aid, since the 3 are great on its own.

These hearing aids use the same technology as the Dual Connect, but they are designed thinking on people that are reluctant to use hearing aids and look for something that isn’t that obvious. They are smaller than the Dual Connect and so more discreet, yet they have good sound quality, noise reduction and adaptive directionality.

Oticon Dual Mini m9 Specifications

MultiBand Adaptive (4 band)
Automatic Adaptive (3 modes)
TriState Noise Management with Voicefinder
Bandwidth: 10 kHz
Dynamic Feedback Cancellation2
Front Focus
Life Learning
Activity Analyzer
AutoPhone and Auto T-coil
Battery size: 10 A – hours: 105 hours

Small and yet so Powerfull

The Oticon Dual Mini m9 is part of Oticon’s Dual line. These hearing aids are based on Oticon’s RISE technology that has a fast processing of sound data and deliver high sound quality to the user. The Mini m9 is also virtually invisible and is fully automatic, even if you can have full control in your hands with the Streamer remote Control.

The Streamer is also used to connect by Bluetooth your hearing aid to several electronic appliances, like your TV or Laptop, so that the Dual hearing aids will work as a hands free wireless headset. The hearing aid will also automatically switch to a phone program if you answer your phone and will also adapt to when you are watching TV or listening to music.

The Mini 9 also has an expanded bandwidth, which you can’t find in the other models, of 10 MHz, for better sound quality, localization of speech and increasing speech understanding. Another feature that you will only find on the Mini 9 is the My Voice feature, this feature will allow the hearing aid when you are in a conversation to recognize your voice, so it will change settings immediately between when you are speaking and when you are listening to what other people say.

Besides this you also get the Binaural Dynamic Feedback Cancelation, it allows you to listen to music sounds and even whistling without the hearing aid cancelling them. There is also the Enhanced Dynamic Feedback Cancelation, which is so effective that it can predict feedback even before it happens. And only on the Mini 9, you also get the Life Learning technology that allows the hearing aid to record data from your most frequent sound environments and learn from them how to automatically adjust the settings.

Oticon Dual Mini m9 at a Glance…

Pros:

Hi Tech Pack of Features
Top of The Line Hearing Aids
Excellent Sound Quality

Cons:

Expensive

The Oticon Dual Mini m9 is a great hearing aid from Oticon. It packs great features and delivers a performance even in the most challenging sound environments that is unparallel. Even if it is a bit expensive, it is a good investment since this hearing aid was built to last. But it requires also periodical maintenance since it is a Right In The Ear model, it has its advantages, but it needs to be properly cleaned periodically.

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Oticon Epoq W Review

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:49:16 +0000

The Oticon Epoq W is characterized by the Binaural Synchronization, which synchronizes all the advanced features like noise reduction between the two hearing aids. This feature works as a high speed wireless technology that synchronizes automatically the noise reduction and directionality to preserve the understanding of speech in every situation.

You can also count with the convenient streamer that works as a remote control for your hearing aid to change volume or program, and also to connect through Bluetooth to your cellphone, TV, MP3 or laptop. Available in white or black, with optional colors on silicon skins.

Oticon Epoq W Specifications

10 KHz bandwidth
Binaural Synchronization
Binaural Coordination
DFC 2 technology
True Dynamics
Front Focus
Life Learning
Streamer

Performance and Style

The Oticon Epoq W can effectively communicate wirelessly between the two hearing aids at transfer speeds higher than any other hearing aids. It can process the data in real time speeds as voices and sounds are received by the hearing aids. The wireless connectivity also allows to use Bluetooth to connect with electronical devices like laptops or MP3s.

But the most raved about benefit of this wireless connection is the fact that it can effectively coordinate the action of the hearing aids and their features, so that there is no difference in what and how sounds and voices are heard through both hearing aids.

The Epoq W has a brother in Oticon’s line, the XW, but the only difference between the two is how they handle the noise. The XW is more sophisticated in how it handles the noise and enhances voices and sounds for much better understanding.

One of the disadvantages of this model is the fact that it is available as a receiver in the ear design that requires continuing maintenance in the receiver and dome. Besides that the whole hearing aid works wonders improving your hearing and it is comfortable to wear. It is a prime choice from the Oticon’s catalog of hearing aids for anyone with mild to moderately severe hearing loss.

Oticon Epoq W at a Glance…

Pros:

Extra Features, like the Streamer
Fully Automatic
Binaural Synchronization

Cons:

Requires Continuing Maintenance

The Oticon Epoq W isn’t as good as the Epoc XW, and for the price you pay, you may want to get the XW instead. It is a heavy investment, but one that will last a lifetime if you know how to take care of your hearing aid. It is one of the best hearing aids in the market, it has all the technological features to deliver you good sound quality and a design that will make you forget that you are wearing it.

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Bernafon Brite Hearing Aid Review

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:09:13 +0000

It is said that a hearing aid is nothing more than a microphone that picks up sound and deliver it to the wearer’s ear. But what makes a hearing aid special is the digital circuitry inside it that reduces ambient noise, automatically adjusts volume according to the listening environment and adapts to the user’s preferences. Today’s high tech hearing aids have also become extremely small and discreet, making them visually and acoustically invisible.

Bernafon is one of the leading brands of hearing aids in the world today. The company has been providing sophisticated hearing equipment and other related devices for the hearing impaired for many years now. Bernafon is particularly known for its high quality Swiss-made hearing devices. One of Bernafon’s bestselling products in recent years is the Bernafon Brite.

Bernafon Brite Specifications:

Receiver-in-the-ear technology
Various colors to choose from
Bandwidth: 140-6800Hz in a 2cc coupler as per S3.22-6.8
Battery: 312 battery
Battery Life: 120 hours use

Who said hearing aids can’t be fun and funky? Bernafon does just that with its candy-colored Brite available in various cool colors. This particular hearing aid model is perfect for kids, teens and even adults who want an attractive and cool-looking hearing aid.

The Bernafon Brite is not made for people who want to hide hearing impairment. In fact, with its superb colors and design, it could very well be for people who don’t mind hearing loss at all, making a loud and clear statement. The target market of the Bernafon Brite is people who don’t want to wear one of those huge and clunky hearing aids that grandpa used to wear.

The colors of the Bernafon Brite are even interchangeable. This allows the wearer to completely customize their look according to their style or mood. The Bernafon Brite features state of the art receiver-in-the-ear technology. It comes encased in a sophisticated housing that is not only functional but also fashionable. The Bernafon Brite system is also easily programmable to fit the individual user’s preferences.

Pros:

Cool, fashionable design with interchangeable colors
Distinct yet discreet design
Advanced hearing aid technology

Cons:

May not be suitable for people who want a visually invisible hearing aid

The Bernafon Brite is an excellent hearing aid option for people who would like some color and style. Although it has a funky and fun vibe, the Bernafon Brite is still a high quality hearing equipment offering state of the art technology.

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