Phonak Hearing Aid Cleaning Kit Hearing aids are super-sophisticated devices that help the hard of hearing manage their hearing loss. To provide the required amplification level of sound, the device needs to be in working order and clean from wax...
The biggest single issue that plagues the whole hearing aid industry is the environment that our products have to work in. There are two environments that hearing aids are exposed to. The first is the “outside” and that could be...
Styles of hearing aids are predominantly driven by two opposing factors: 1. Laws of physics (and personal experience of most amateur pub bands) in respect to speakers and microphones which dictate they should be kept some distance apart to avoid...
Many people that suffer from hearing loss comment on problems hearing the television. This is traditionally tackled by simply turning up the volume; which of course helps but can cause many a cross word with others in the household (or...
Hearing loss and the need for hearing aids is something that many of us associate with old age (see age related hearing loss). But what do we mean by old age? It is interesting to note that we also associate...
I have recently read an interesting study from the USA which looked at the sale of hearing aids and personal hearing amplifiers (which are hearing aids but for the name and called such to avoid falling foul of FDA regulations...
Telecoil Logo On a fairly frequent basis, I am asked about hearing loops or telecoil settings either within a hearing aid or from a device that claims to connect with one. In many instances, customers are vaguely aware that the...
Over the weekend we have had some problems with the website and its performance – the primary cause of this is being hotly debated by our IT team as I write this; needless to say, it is complicated. We know...
A quick overview of the world’s major manufacturers of hearing aids. Organisations listed in alphabetical order: GN ReSound A Danish company based in Ballerup. Founded in 1943 by Gerd Rosenstand as Danavox which was acquired in 1977 by GN Store...
