The audiologist did not want to test my hearing again so she turned down the overall level on the hearing aids, fitted them better and reduced the 4kHz boost. I asked her to activate the "music" mode and she did.
Now everything is still too loud but its volume control can turn it down and there is still a shrill boost at 4kHz but the feedback squealing is gone. I wore them for a couple of hours and listened to music:
1) In the Master mode the music was too shrill. I needed to turn down the treble tone controls on my sound systems as low as they go then the boost at 4kHz sounded better but still awful.
2) In the new Music mode frequencies from 3kHz to 8kHz or more were boosted and it sounded different to the Master mode. It sounded better with the treble tone controls on my sound systems turned all the way down but still sounded bad.
3) In the Comfort mode it sounded pretty good at first with less loudness and less 4kHz boost but after a few seconds the lows and highs were reduced and muffled.
Then the left ear told me, "Beep, beep. Low Baddree".
I removed the hearing aids and it sounded like I was temporarily deafened by them. After a while without them everything sounded normal, maybe with a little less loudness than a young person. I returned the treble tone controls on my sound systems to the middle with no boost band no cut and it sounded VERY good. The announcer on the FM radio station said the word Texas a few times and I heard the "SS" sounds perfectly. I hear all the high frequency sounds in music.
So I think my hearing test was VERY wrong and I do not have severe reduction of high frequencies.
I go to another hearing aids place on Monday for another free hearing test and another free trial of hearing aids.
Now everything is still too loud but its volume control can turn it down and there is still a shrill boost at 4kHz but the feedback squealing is gone. I wore them for a couple of hours and listened to music:
1) In the Master mode the music was too shrill. I needed to turn down the treble tone controls on my sound systems as low as they go then the boost at 4kHz sounded better but still awful.
2) In the new Music mode frequencies from 3kHz to 8kHz or more were boosted and it sounded different to the Master mode. It sounded better with the treble tone controls on my sound systems turned all the way down but still sounded bad.
3) In the Comfort mode it sounded pretty good at first with less loudness and less 4kHz boost but after a few seconds the lows and highs were reduced and muffled.
Then the left ear told me, "Beep, beep. Low Baddree".
I removed the hearing aids and it sounded like I was temporarily deafened by them. After a while without them everything sounded normal, maybe with a little less loudness than a young person. I returned the treble tone controls on my sound systems to the middle with no boost band no cut and it sounded VERY good. The announcer on the FM radio station said the word Texas a few times and I heard the "SS" sounds perfectly. I hear all the high frequency sounds in music.
So I think my hearing test was VERY wrong and I do not have severe reduction of high frequencies.
I go to another hearing aids place on Monday for another free hearing test and another free trial of hearing aids.