I've been through 4 sets over the years and got the best available. My hearing tested -90 dB from normal and the best aids could only recover 30 dB. My losses were worse in the 2-4 kHz range, the range of the female voice.....convenient for selective hearing on "honey do's" but caused by employment, not my wife.
They did help some but were a PIA. They are really good at picking up background noise even on the $4000 units that had background noise cancelers......now how does the aid know what is talk and what is background??????????
One of the problems in hearing loss is the running together of words. The space disappears and they just run together. You have to get the whole sentence and digest it some times to understand the contents of the sentence. So someone says something, you give them a blank look, your mental computer goes over what came in and if it recognizes a key word you get the general idea of the communication and respond. Otherwise the blank look remains.
On the TV, the best thing I found was the Sony MDR-IF245R Cordless Stereo Headphones. Even at my critically low hearing level, I can listen to what I want and the quality is unbelievable. I never have to put the volume all the way up. They sit on a recharge cradle next to your TV and you plug your sound source into the back of the cradle which houses the transmitter that transmits to the headsets. Line of sight range is about 15' or more if you are looking at the cradle rather than walking away.You need to give them some serious consideration.
Wind and road noises are a horrible nuisance and attempting to wear them in either situation is useless for me. So, I just keep them in my pocket when I think I am going to be where I need to hear or go without them and tell whomever is talking to me that I am deaf, speak up.....seldom have a problem with that.
Other thing is ensure that your batteries are within the date code. Trying to use older batteries are iffy. I checked about a dozen one day that were just over a year out and got all sorts of answers with none even equalling the posted voltage. A new one will register several tents of a volt over the posted voltage. Don't expect more than a day's usage out of a set. Dollar General has the best prices around here.
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