I got ear molds that are custom-made for my ear canals and the hearing aids are turned up almost to normal but since I do not like how the anti-feedback causes high frequencies to flutter then it is turned off in the "music" mode.
When she was programming them the audiologist said she sees that I used the "music" mode the most. Are the hearing aids spying on my daily activities?
Before plugging in my son's over-the-ears (and over the hearing aids) headphones, the hearing aids beeped a warning that they were going up to max sensitivity. I guess the magnets in the headphones were detected to doo dat? So I cannot use the headphones with my hearing aids and a few of my telephones also cause that. When the magnet (?) is moved away then the hearing aids beep that they are going down to normal sensitivity.
I tested my aided frequency response with my cheap computer speakers and with my stereo but the results show the room response, not my hearing response.
Fantastic! Music is wonderful. I thought that the hearing aids would produce severe clipping when fairly loud (powered from a tiny 1.5V button battery) but they can go VERY loud with no distortion.
I wake in the morning without them and everything sounds OK. Then when I put them on, sounds are loud and shrill for a few minutes then I get used to hearing normally with them.
When I turn up the sensitivity in the voice mode with anti-feedback turned on then I can hear people talking far away. Another mode cuts background noise when nobody is talking to me or if there is no music and I use it when walking around a noisy mall.
When I take them off there is a HUGE difference and everything sounds low level and very muffled for a few minutes then I get used to hearing like I heard things for the past few years.
I traded in the special telephone that wirelessly plays telephone audio into BOTH hearing aids and got a stereo or TV Bluetooth transmitter. Then the hearing aids use the remote control as the receiver hanging from a cord around my neck that transmits wirelessly to the hearing aids. I don't like the restricted frequency response and distortion. When I use this in my backyard then the sound breaks up due to distance. I wish I could get credit for these options I will never use.