Recent content by Volusiano

Looks like you already have the answer. Wonder why you bother asking? Also, your question is not specific enough. Best formula for what? For speech in noise? For music? For overall natural sounding perception? I know that you did say for sloping hearing loss (precipitous loss), but most...

You will need earmold for the left ear for sure with that kind of heavy loss. For the right ear, you can probably get buy with a generic dome and an 85 dB receiver. On the left year, you'll need at least a 100 dB receiver, preferably a 105 dB receiver with custom molds. If you can't get...

Is the ring tone also weak coming from the phone if you're not using the hearing aids? I suspect the issue is because your phone's ringtone volume level is set to a very low volume level, so you're just hearing that low volume effect, whether through the hearing aids or through the phone's...

NAL-NL1 and NAL-NL2 are non-proprietary standard fitting rationales open to any HA mfg to use. They're geared for speech priority, so you will probably find them sharp and maybe a little harsh on the ears, unless you're used to it. NL2 is probably the successor of NL1. DSL-Adult v5.0 and...

Thanks for updating this, @pvc. It looks like the Philips 9050 and the Bernafon Encanta will also be on the Sirius platform. I don't know about the Sonic platform though. I checked on their SonicI.com website and I don't see any introduction of a new model line of hearing aids. The Captivate...

Hm, I double checked and I don't see that my images are reversed. Below is a snapshot of my post on the other forum. The first screenshot (where I set ACT to -4 meaning the least help is needed with noise because I have good (normal) contrast threshold) shows that Easy consists of Very...

I hear that ACT must be used with an audiometer (with a purchased ACT license), and it's not plug-and-play with any audiometer, only certain (and maybe newer) models. So if the HCP already invested $20K in an audiometer that turns out to be incompatible with ACT, then it's very unlikely that...

Thanks for testing this out, @pvc ! This is definitely interesting that the gain numbers are different for different ACT values on the 2 extremes. So the ACT value does a whole lot more than just making changes to some of the parameters in MoreSound Intelligence. This would make the value of...

I would venture to guess, and it can be verified probably quite easily because we can always restore the last session with the intact REM data, is that the ACT data will only change the parameters in the MoreSound Intelligence window and will not affect the data in the Fine Tuning window. The...

Hopefully eventually at some point, ACT will proliferate enough to be considered a best practice test to be done, just as important as doing a tone-generated audiometry test. Without ACT, you'll have to guess how much help you need for speech in noise settings. With ACT, you can skip guessing...

I have not done any analysis to determine exactly how the Sound Controls adjustments result in what the gain curves would look like. But if you have done enough analysis to lead you to believe in your conclusions above 100%, then OK. But I can't just confirm or deny your conclusion because I...

Yes, the bottom line is that regardless of which fitting rationale you choose, you can always alter it to gain curves that's customized to your liking. However, it doesn't always mean that a gain curve of VAC+ that is adjusted to look exactly like the gain curves of NAL-NL2 will make them sound...

I agree that we don't really know for sure if it's really a new platform or just a rename attempt. But I, on the other hand, and in the camp that find it believable that it would be a new platform, because 1. I find Oticon to be more open about the technical details they reveal from their...

Thanks for your clarification about what you mean by high end vs low end (different models and not different tiers within the same model). Nevertheless, like I mentioned, the VAC+ fitting rationale is a very basic fundamental building block in Oticon aids, and is a proprietary signature of...

But the Oticon Intent is on a new platform they call Sirius, no? It's not on the Polaris platform anymore that was used for the More and Real. It's probably also because this new Sirius platform is more power-hungry that they now have to resort to a bigger rechargeable battery size 13. So...