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Digital Hearing Aids
What do I Need in a Digital Hearing Aid?
People that suffer from hearing loss report back that they are very satisfied with digital hearing aids that include the following features.
1. Digital hearing aids with directional microphones.
The answer to why is easy, directional microphones improve the understanding of speech especially in the noisy environment. The digital hearing aid is able to perform this function by using two microphones. What the two microphones do is separate unwanted sounds that occur behind the user from the speech that occurs in front of the user for better understanding.
2. Multiple Compression Channels.
What multiple compression channels do for you is they react quickly to increase volume for crucial speech sounds and then also lower it for louder stray noises. The multiple compression channels technology serves to protect the user from sudden loud sounds like slamming doors or something falling on the floor.
3. Multiple Programs.
The modern digital hearing devise has memory to take advantage of a number of different programs. This allows the user to switch between programs from one environment to another. The different environment could be as simple as inside, outside or in a noisy office. This gives the user much more control over the different types of listening situations.
4. Noise Reduction.
The digital hearing devise also has built-in noise reduction that makes listening to speech more natural in noisy situations. Sounds are annoying, like wind noise must be reduced to reduce irritation. Noise reduction capabilities are available in different levels and the technology and can vary in its effectiveness. So, it is important to understand that having noise reduction in a hearing devise does not mean background noise is eliminated.
5. Feedback Cancellation.
Is a valuable added digital feature of any hearing aid feedback cancellation eliminates whistling and squealing that is annoying. The stray sound must be eliminated in order to have the needed clarity for speech recognition.
6. The Difference in Hearing Aid Manufactures
Hearing aid manufactures vary only slightly in quality and performance among most of the major brands on today’s market. You will find somewhere around 20 different hearing devise manufactures making hearing aids. But you will only find about seven of them that actually do the research and design for new technology.
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Two Hearing Aids or One?
The most asked question when searching for a solution for a hearing problem is do you need two hearing aids or just one. There is a simple answer to this question. Just ask yourself these two questions. 1) Does hearing in both ears improve the sound and the loudness? 2) Do you want to understand others as well as possible no matter what environment you are in?
Most people will always answer yes to both questions. So yes! Two hearing aids are always better than one. The buzz word given to acquiring two hearing aids in called a (binaural fitting).
- The binaural fitting stacks up a number of excellent advantages.
- Better understanding of speech in an environment that noisy.
- It is much easier to locate the source of the sound your hearing.
- Less of a need for greater volume.
- There is a greater impact on the auditory system which leads to better understanding of speech.
When you consider the human design of two inputs for sound and one of the reasons for this is that sounds need to arrive at the brain at slightly different times to make sense of them. By design our hearing is balanced giving us the ability to pick out voices in a crowded room with many sounds.
The way we are able to tell where a sound originated is via binaural hearing. The brain does some very complex things with the sound that comes in both ears to create balance. If you can only hear in one ear it will be very difficult to tell where any sound in coming from.
The sound that reaches the brain from both ears adds requiring much less volume to understand what is being heard. You may find the occasional exception to rule. But having two hearing aids is by far better than one in almost all cases of hearing loss.