Hearing aid? Me?

[Inspector507]

Phonak

 

[gws]

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My two just cost $1,000 each. The audiologist (in a doctor's office) told me they were programmable, but they're not. )</font>

Programable are usually one that the audiologist would program to your heaing loss. It generally not a user function.

 

[gws]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I might spend the bigger bucks, but I just can't talk myself into paying $2,000 to $2,600 each for a pair of them and don't know whether they'd actually make a difference or not. )</font>

Any good aid fitter will have a money back guarantee if they dont work take them back. I had a set that sounded great at the audiologist but when I went to work and into the computer rooms was very noisy both from a electrical and audio side.
I took them back and we tried a different type and found one that worked.

I have a high end unit that I use most of the time and a low end sub $1000 unit as a backup.

 

[Bird]

I may take a chance and do that, Gary. One problem (for me) is that there are so many brands and dealers that it's hard to decide which one to try. My original hearing aids were Beltone and I think the audiologist in Virginia Beach, VA, did a good job. We were full time RVers at the time wandering all over the country and I figured I could probably find a Beltone dealer wherever we went. Then we quit traveling and when the old Beltones needed repair, there was a dealer 50 miles away. Then that dealer quit handling Beltone, went to Starkeys only, but would still service Beltones. Then they closed up shop. So the current hearing aids are Starkey, which I got from an audiologist just 22 miles from where we lived. Now we've moved back to town and the nearest Starkey dealer is about 20 miles of very heavy traffic. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif