Hearing Aid Review: Phonak Audeo Smart IX (Pre-Trial)

Pre-Trial Review of the Phonak Audeo Smart IX CRT/RIC hearing aids. I also review the myPilot and the iCom.

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• PHonak
• Audeo
• Smart
• mypilot
• icom
• bluetooth
• consumer
• hearing
• aid
• review
• digital
• aids
• ai

[HearingAidDocs]

Sorry everyone... the 2 week review won't be available for another 2 weeks... thanks for watching!

[EdenMar]

Trying to decide between this and the Siemens Pure, and this one looks a little larger and less 'cosmetic.' Is that correct?

I'm waiting too and may delay the decision until your posting of Part 2! Is it the SoundRecover that's difficult to get 'right' and it's causing the delay?

[HearingAidDocs]

The Smart is slightly larger than the Pure, but not by much.

The SoundRecover for my hearing loss is not as important for speech understanding. However, I've found that turning the SoundRecover on does improve sound quality (less tinny and hissy).

We've just had a busy couple of weeks and haven't had the time to really give it a good try. Don't wanna post a review without putting the hearing aid through a workout!

[baydriver7]

Thanks for the review! Very helpful... just got two today and love them.

[ccbeno]

Does it have to be a smart phone

[ce4me]

Will myPilot increase the volume across the audio spectrum, say e.g.  from 250 to 4000 Hz, or just a limited band?

[MrsKeiju]

I need the captions, please!!

[mugambokush]

Great review. Only one point would be good to have more side view of the HA in your ear to emphasise cosmetic.

[EdenMar]

Question about high-frequency intelligibility, with cochlear damage:

The Pure line has SoundBrilliance (adds synthesized harmonics) and Phonaks have SoundRecover (shifts high frequencies lower). In theory, the first seems to require that patient still has some dynamic range left, where the new harmonics occur.

But, the second seems better for someone without that. Please tell us how this works out in 'real life' -- are the two so close, no great difference -- or do you give one the 'nod'?

[athleticandy88]

Not trying to come off as a smart ***, but there are people who are deaf that can't hear anything and your video doesn't have caption for people to read what you say?

[shootingspam]

Yep keen to see your report also. Would be great to know if you think this is a better/worse aid compared to the Pure

[EdenMar]

More requests for your upcoming report, please:

Can you tell us if SoundRecover would likely give back natural-sounding sibilants to people with cochlear 'dead areas' due to acoustic trauma? It has been described in Phonak literature as potentially useful for these cases.

I know you don't have this kind of hearing problem, but much appreciated if you can think of some way to report on it, anyway ... maybe you have a patient to help with this?

[EdenMar]

Requests for your upcoming report, please:

Can you tell us if SoundRecover has to be limited to certain listening programs, or can it be turned 'on' all the time, without causing problems in certain situations? I am thinking of what it might 'do' to music ...