Best New Hearing Aids of 2016
We’re barely halfway through the year, but already three major hearing aid manufacturers have released new hearing aids that continue to revolutionize hearing devices. Here at Lifestyle Hearing Solutions, we offer the best hearing aids on the market. We are excited to share with you our favorite new hearing aids of 2016.
Starkey Hearing Technologies: Muse
Starkey Hearing Technologies introduced the Muse in March 2016. The Muse updates the innovations available in their previous families of hearing aids, the Z Series and the Halo Made for iPhone. Muse hearing aids are wireless and designed for complex listening environments. Powered by the new Synergy processing platform, the Muse runs at five times the processing speed of Starkey’s previous hearing aids. The Muse is recognized for four main features: comfort in noise, high-quality music listening, improved speech recognition, and an ultra-high definition audio experience for every situation.
Muse’s sound comfort technology provides distortion free listening for the entire spectrum of sounds, and it easily adapts to new sounds, making the listening experience more natural. When it comes to music, the Muse offers a music memory function to facilitate a high-definition, refined listening experience for musicians and music lovers alike. To address speech recognition issues, Muse offers features such as Acuity Directionality and Speech Shift, which elucidates speech in difficult listening situations.
With the Muse, wearers are able to connect wirelessly to TV, music, and other media through the SurfLink Mobile 2 app and other SurfLink accessories. For people who suffer from tinnitus, Muse boasts Multiflex Tinnitus Technology. Muse hearing aids are available in the following styles: completely-in-canal, in-the-canal, in-the-ear, receiver-in-canal, and behind-the-ear.
Signia Primax
Signia is the latest branch of hearing aids from Sivantos Group, the parent company behind Siemens. This spring, Signia was launched with the brand new Primax, a hearing aid proven to reduce effort in listening. Primax is equipped with the feature SpeechMaster, which utilizes a series of algorithms to give the wearer a clear and effortless listening experience. SpeechMaster focuses on noise reduction, directionality, and steering amplification.
For those who love music, the Signia Primax is a great choice. With three different settings, the High Definition (HD) music program offers Live Music (designed to handle a wider range of volume at a concert); Recorded Music; and Musician, for those who perform. Quality sound is extended with the EchoShield feature, which addresses the issue of reverberation. In certain spaces, acoustics may prove difficult for people who experience hearing loss. EchoShield softens sounds in cavernous spaces where echo and reverberation are an issue, easing the listening experience.
By connecting to the easyTek app, Primax hearing aids improve accessibility for wearers through the use of personal electronic devices. Now, the Primax is able to stream phone calls, music, and other media directly from their hearing aids to their ears.
Primax is a flexible hearing solution for all degrees of hearing loss. For those who experience single-sided deafness, Primax offers CROS and BiCROS solutions, which use e2e wireless 3.0 technologies. Primax is available in the following Siemens/Signia hearing aid models: Pure, Ace, Motion, and Insio. These are available in receiver-in-canal, behind-the-ear, or in-the-air styles, to treat varying degrees of hearing loss in different performance levels (7px, 5px, and 3px). For people who suffer from tinnitus, Primax hearing aids offer sound therapy with static noise or ocean wave sounds.
Oticon Opn
Oticon’s Opn hearing aid offers wearers 20% reduction in listening effort in noisy environments, 20% more capacity to remember in these challenging situations, and 30% better speech understanding and clarity in noise.
Powered by the Velox processing platform, Opn hearing aids allow wearers to choose where to focus and what sounds to hear, among multiple conversations and background noise. Velox’s processing chip allows wearers to negotiate sounds 50 times faster than previous Oticon models. The OpenSound Navigator Environmental Analyzer scans wearer’s listening environments at 100 times per second, analyzing and balancing every sound. This gives wearers the opportunity to hear every sound, and then choosing to focus on the sounds they want to hear.
With TwinLink, Opn gives wearers a natural, binaural listening experience, using near-field magnetic communication technology. TwinLink also utilizes Bluetooth direct streaming communication to smartphones and other devices, streaming phone conversations, music, and other media directly to the hearing aid. And finally, Opn’s greatest innovation may be that it is the world’s first hearing aid to connect directly to the Internet.
Connecting to the web service If This Then that (IFTTT.com), Opn allows wearers to connect to IFTTT sounds heard in everyday life, such as doorbells and baby monitors. By processing sound through this feature, wearers are more equipped to have a healthy and natural listening environment, with increased accessibility to the sounds in their everyday life. The Oticon Opn is available in a discreet, mini receiver-in-canal style, with excellent battery life.
If you are ready to test drive one of 2016’s most innovative hearing solutions, contact us at Lifestyle Hearing Solutions!
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