laminopostalveolar
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First, some quick questions:
1. The chimes during changing programs in Oticon Opn sound extremely loud, I can't stop myself from shuddering every time. The starting sound is also loud, but not as bad. Why would they be so absurdly loud? Do they want to damage my hearing or is it my loudness perception being wrong due to underamplification? Can they be changed or muted?
2. Another issue - when I hear loud sounds (in headphones only?), new Oticons make a vibrating sound. If I rewind to the exact same moment, the vibrating disappears. What is it? Noise suppression? Poor antifeedback? It NEVER happens in old Oticons.
I have congenital hearing loss and wear hearing aids since childhood. Since over a decade I've been wearing Oticon Sensei Pro BTE (custom molds). I wasn't REM-tested but an aided audiogram was done too. They were really loud compared to the previous ones but I don't recall them sounding weird. A few years later my parents bought another pair of them which was set a little quieter (neither pair had loudness buttons enabled) but the sound didn't noticeably differ otherwise. In the last years I felt my hearing loss has worsened (sibilants fine; stops, nasals and l are easily confused, struggling to differentiate between voiced and voiceless consonants - my language lacks aspiration) but the audiograms didn't show it ( ), so I shifted to the older ones and it was a more comfortable experience. Since so much time has passed since the model (2013 apparently), I assumed a new model (Opn S 2 BTE) might improve my hearing. Not only did they sound weirdly low-pitched, but the phoneme recognition seemed to worsen, the sound seemed lacking. The first time I had them on they were really silent and everything sounded as if I were underwater (the issue still remains for distant voices, Sensei Pro don't have it) and the audiologist said that's how they should be set with my hearing loss. Fulfilling my wish, the audiologist tried to increase high frequencies but even going overboard failed to recreate the previous experience. Shifted to pediatric Oticon Opn Play 2 and the phoneme recognition maybe improved relative to Opn S 2, maybe something was set better. I noticed that the Oticon Genie 2 software lacked 8 kHz for Opn while it didn't for Sensei Pro so another idea was to go for a higher model which had 8 kHz. It didn't help. Maybe still set too quiet? Maybe it's somewhere in lower frequencies? Wish I could just do REM but it's hard to reach audiologists who do it in my country. Or maybe I could DIY settings, although I don't know how I would get the software and whether it would void the warranty.
1. The chimes during changing programs in Oticon Opn sound extremely loud, I can't stop myself from shuddering every time. The starting sound is also loud, but not as bad. Why would they be so absurdly loud? Do they want to damage my hearing or is it my loudness perception being wrong due to underamplification? Can they be changed or muted?
2. Another issue - when I hear loud sounds (in headphones only?), new Oticons make a vibrating sound. If I rewind to the exact same moment, the vibrating disappears. What is it? Noise suppression? Poor antifeedback? It NEVER happens in old Oticons.
I have congenital hearing loss and wear hearing aids since childhood. Since over a decade I've been wearing Oticon Sensei Pro BTE (custom molds). I wasn't REM-tested but an aided audiogram was done too. They were really loud compared to the previous ones but I don't recall them sounding weird. A few years later my parents bought another pair of them which was set a little quieter (neither pair had loudness buttons enabled) but the sound didn't noticeably differ otherwise. In the last years I felt my hearing loss has worsened (sibilants fine; stops, nasals and l are easily confused, struggling to differentiate between voiced and voiceless consonants - my language lacks aspiration) but the audiograms didn't show it ( ), so I shifted to the older ones and it was a more comfortable experience. Since so much time has passed since the model (2013 apparently), I assumed a new model (Opn S 2 BTE) might improve my hearing. Not only did they sound weirdly low-pitched, but the phoneme recognition seemed to worsen, the sound seemed lacking. The first time I had them on they were really silent and everything sounded as if I were underwater (the issue still remains for distant voices, Sensei Pro don't have it) and the audiologist said that's how they should be set with my hearing loss. Fulfilling my wish, the audiologist tried to increase high frequencies but even going overboard failed to recreate the previous experience. Shifted to pediatric Oticon Opn Play 2 and the phoneme recognition maybe improved relative to Opn S 2, maybe something was set better. I noticed that the Oticon Genie 2 software lacked 8 kHz for Opn while it didn't for Sensei Pro so another idea was to go for a higher model which had 8 kHz. It didn't help. Maybe still set too quiet? Maybe it's somewhere in lower frequencies? Wish I could just do REM but it's hard to reach audiologists who do it in my country. Or maybe I could DIY settings, although I don't know how I would get the software and whether it would void the warranty.
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