Recent content by gljeffery

I don’t perceive any issues with the 85db receiver and speech rescue enabled for my right ear so I will stick with that. Many thanks for all your help.

Disabling speech rescue for my left ear has done the trick. Absolutely no chirps or beeps now. One more question:- Do you think the 85db receiver is OK for my right ear or would you recommend going to a 100db. I just wonder if using speech rescue for that ear keeps things within range of the...

The “static” feedback test reduced the highs way too much. I did some tinkering and in the Speech Rescue section I unchecked “keep the high frequencies” and pushed the speech rescue slider one stop to the left. This appears to have done the trick but I will wait and see.

I have always used the closed grip tips with the Opn S. The “Acoustics“ section in Genie 2 has closed grip tips. I am going to try disabling the “dynamic” feedback control in the “automatics” section of Genie and then run the feedback control from the “fit” section. This may reduce the highs...

I put my audiogram in my signature.

Audiogram

I think this has been mentioned before but I cannot find it so I will throw it out anew. Although I do not get feedback using closed grip tips, I get an intermittent very low level “squeal” which sounds just like feedback squeal but much quieter. It happens in any environment and occurs every...

Many thanks for all that info.

I am a long-time Phonak user now trying Oticon. I read many favourable posts about Oticon and so far I prefer them to Phonak. Due to circumstances I have acquired a pair of Opn 2 and a pair of Real 3. Sense tells me that the Reals are the ones that I “should” prefer but I find myself...