Oticon Intent

Hi, I’ve been wearing hearing aids about 30 years now more or less, I’ve been wearing the new Oticon Intent for about 3 months and I am really impressed. One of the biggest problems many of us face is speech in noise, and in particular this model for me, has made a substantial improvement. The first time after I got these that I went out to dinner in a busy restaurant with a high ambient noise level, I was able to have a conversation, I could hear what my tablemates were saying, I didn’t have to lean in and ask people to repeat themselves, it was just a wonderful experience. I’m pleased with the basic increase in the ability to hear through the general noise program, it has a music program, I play music, I tend to focus since I don’t sing, on how my instrument sounds and I will say that in the general and speech in noise programs I actually get a really good sense of how my instrument is sounding in the mix. The Intent has good battery life, if you’re running low, 15 minutes will get you 4 hours of a charge, 8 hours, a half hour will get you 8 hours of a charge, it’s not really, the battery life is not really an issue. These units are a tad wider than the Real units that preceded them. I happened to get very thin glasses years ago in anticipation of someday getting rechargeable hearing aids and they worked just fine, there’s no conflict, no width issue, so bottom line, I am really happy with the Oticon Intent, specifically because of the marked increase in speech in noise capability, it really makes me feel more comfortable going out in groups. I’ve been dealing for years with the ZipHearing folks, I’m very pleased with them, and I’m most especially pleased with this new Oticon Intent 1, so if it interests you, give it a try, thanks for your time.

Hi, my name is Mike and this is about my new Oticon intent hearing aid. Just bought two of them. My hearing loss first presented itself 40 years ago with ringing in the ears tinnitus, and I was also having a little trouble understanding what some of the young women in my office with soft voices were saying. Little problem with word recognition. Went to a couple of doctors here in DC who said, I've been listening to too much rock music and I'd have to live with tinnitus with the ringing in my ears. But my career was in broadcast journalism, and the spoken word was how I made my living, so I needed more than that. Fortunately, at that time I some folks at the White House told me that president at that time, Ronald Reagan, also had tinnitus and went to a place in Los Angeles where they did some good work. So I contacted them, flew out there, met with the doctor, had a half a dozen tests. They went through my genetic history, my family history, and congratulations, I have cochlear otosclerosis. My grandmother was deaf at the age of 70. My mother was deaf at the age of 75. And what it is, the cochlear is the little snail like part of your inner ear that has little microscopic hairs in it and they're the noise receptors. They're called sela and as you get older, like the rest of your body, they deteriorate and this happens with everybody. That's why 80 year old people don't hear as well as 20 year old people. But if you have cochlear otosclerosis, you're on the fast track, your hearing deteriorates much more quickly and you're ending up possibly on the path to deafness. So they gave me some dietary supplements to help slow the deterioration, to make sure I had enough calcium in my diet, things like that. They helped me clear up some sinus problems that had made things worse, and they got me a white noise machine that helped me at night so that I was able to sleep better. And when the time came, it was time for hearing aids. I got one, it was fine. It wore out. I got a second one. It was fine. But after ten years it wore out. Now it's time for the third one. So in the most recent set wore out, my doctor, who is well in his 80s and his top audiologist, told me about the oticon intent which had hit the market all of four weeks earlier. My doctor's top hearing aid specialist said it has to be, quote, the smartest hearing aid in the market right now. But he added that the tricky part of all this is my hearing loss is such that it has to be turned up high and for it to be turned up high, there's an issue with feedback, so I needed an ear mold, a custom ear mold that would allow it to be turned up high without having that screech. When you put your hand next to the ear, I got a good fit. It worked and the improvement is very, very real. The first time I put these things on, I walked outside and for the first time in, I don't know how long I could hear the birds in the high bushes above the apartment that thanks to the 4D technology, I could tell where the sound was coming from. You can't always do that with a hearing aid. There were mechanical sounds that I hadn't been able to hear that I can hear now. The little beep when you lock your car with a car with a key fob, I can hear that the probably the best one of all is when I leave the water running. I can hear the water running and don't walk out and have someone yelling at me, hey, you're going to cause a flood in the house. Now the sounds that I could hear sometimes can be a bit jarring because the boosting everything. So when I walk outside, I will turn this one with one tip down a level, and then once I get used to it, this one turns it up a level and I'm fine. The biggest change with these things is exactly what the audiologist said. It is the smartest hearing aid on the market, speech recognition, hearing exactly what the words are, the consonants at the front, the consonants at the end of a word, not just the vowel sound in the middle. I can better understand what people are saying, especially soft voices and also I am so much better off in crowd type situations. Oticon intent uses artificial intelligence and something called deep neural networks and 4D technology. I can't explain how these things work. But all I know is that I go into a restaurant and this knows that it should turn down the ambient noises around me and allow me to focus on who's talking to me here. And if someone's talking to me over here and I turn my head, it knows that I've turned my head and it will focus on that and then someone else turns and I can focus on that. Not only does AI turn down the ambient noise in restaurants, but it also turns down the ambient wind noise outside. It is absolutely a game changer. Now, what is it about it that I don't like? Is there anything I don't like? Yeah, it doesn't have batteries. So what that means is it needs recharging every night. I need to use this little puppy and put these in there every night and if that's fine at home. But if I'm on the road, I have to take this recharger with me and if I lose it, that's a mess. It was a lot easier if I had batteries, and I just take some batteries and take them along with me and my dopp kit and put them in once a week. Now with this thing. But the one good thing about this, the best thing about it is that the cord comes off. So if there's any damage, I simply have to replace the cord and not a couple hundred dollars for the whole thing. That's one part of it. The other part of it is a little more complicated and that has to do with the shape of this thing. It is smaller in length than most hearing aids, which is great, but because it doesn't have a battery, it's fatter and it also sits at the top of my ear. So if I'm wearing glasses and I put the glasses on, you've got the glasses, you've got the microphone and you've got the battery up here, up all between my head and my ear, there's a lot going on there. It is not horrible, but you have to get used to it. And one thing you might want to do is if you're wearing glasses, you don't want to get glasses with a real thick frame, because that's just going to create more of a problem up there. Get something, maybe with wire. Now let's talk money. Oticon is not cheap, but I saved $2,600 by going through a third party provider zip hearing. Rather than going through my local audiologist. My doctor in L.A. gave me this advice, though, about going through a third party provider. The third party provider goes through local audiologists who do the fitting, who do the adjusting, who do the maintenance on it and if you're going to go through a third party provider, make sure that they have a good audiologist that they're working with in your area. You don't want to be buying this and then end up having no one or someone who's not great. Now, in my case, I found someone who's literally four minutes from where I live, two blocks away, who is excellent. So that's just the advice. But it's the caveat and so let's sum this up first the downsides. Oticon intent is expensive. You got to recharge it every night and it needs battery, and it's a lot bulkier than what I used to have. That is small potatoes compared to the upsides, I can hear so much better with them. And speech comprehension is absolutely, remarkably better. I'm not opting out of conversations I'm not ashamed of saying, will you say that again? Will you repeat what you said? I'm not backing out of those things because I was embarrassed. I'm back among the living and it's so much better in restaurants and other noisy environments because of the AI, the 4D technology, and the deep neural networks and all of that stuff. You know, some people say that AI is taking the world to hell in a handbasket. Well, if it is, thanks to these hearing aids, at least I will be able to hear it happen and if you're trying to decide what hearing aid is best for you, I hope that my sharing my personal experience with you is helpful. All I can say is it's a good time if there is such a thing to have a hearing loss, because the advances that have happened in the past couple of years are amazing, real and exciting, and I want to wish you the best of luck in your search and I want to thank you for listening.

Hi, this is Judy. I'm sorry for the busy background. It's all my craft projects, and, I have recently begun wearing an oticon intent one hearing aid. I've been wearing hearing aids for about 15 years. I knew when I started missing things that people were saying that I didn't want to do that, so I didn't have any problem saying I need a hearing aid. I was happy to do that and in the years I've had them, I've been happy with all the improvements that have been made and all the systems, recently got an oticon intent one hearing aid, and I'm really pleased with it. The information says that when you turn your head, the microphones turn with you, and so you're more likely to be face on with what that or ear on with what that person is saying. It's hard to know because you're not wearing another hearing aid to compare. But, I really feel like I'm asking people less to repeat what they've said. This is what the hearing aid looks like. Pretty small, easy to put in and certainly when I put it in in the mornings, I realize how much difference it makes. I probably wear my hearing aids, 14 hours a day. I get up about five, and I probably put them in about six and go to bed about ten, and I've not had any problem with the battery life. It's been just fine. It hasn't ever said, oh no, you're running out of battery and the charger is fairly small. Here is the charger and it really does a fast job of charging up the hearing aids. The plug, it either has a USB-C that you can plug it into something computer wise, or you can plug it in to your, with just a regular plug that goes in the wall. I didn't take the plug. I just brought the USB cord so it would be USB-C to USB to the plug and I've been pleased with the hearing aids. I've been pleased with the service. I've been really pleased with the quick responses I've gotten when I've called Grant at Zip hearing. It's been nice to get a quick answer on things when I have a question, and he really helped me at the beginning of the process to look at what hearing aids I wanted. I was also really pleased at the difference in price between what I could get from my former hearing aid provider and what Zip hearing did for me. All in all, really pleased. Thanks.

Hello, my name is Philip. I live in Fayetteville, Georgia and I'm 68 years old. I'm a first time hearing aid user, and I wanted to tell you about how I came to have hearing aids and the experience that I had with them. I started out with, I thought I wanted to go to really low cost route. I went to Costco and looked at what they had, but I wasn't. After I researched things, I wasn't confident that what they had was going to do the job for me. I did a lot of work over the decades in very high noise environments, working with large engines and so back in the 70s, 80s, 90s, hearing protection wasn't a thing that people used a lot, and I didn't. So I went to Costco, I went to an ENT, I went to a large chain of hearing aid stores, and then I found a company called Zip Hearing and found that they had a, kind of the sweet spot for me. So they had audiologists who were very capable, and they offered a lot of different brands of hearing aids. I found a local provider there called Hearing Smith's near me and they did an evaluation and made a recommendation, and they recommended oticon. So I started out with a pair of oticon reel twos, and I use those for a few weeks. I had a couple of issues with those and to the credit of Zip hearing, they decided the intent line had just come out. Just come out, and they swapped out the reels for the intent. I think they wanted to have some, you know, some real users out there. So, just wanted to tell you that the intents have been good for me. I have more hearing loss in one ear than the other. And the tuning and the technology of the hearing aid is really made a difference to me. The hearing Smith's audiologist, Rachel Smith, helped me understand, too, that it's not just your ears, and it's not just your hearing aids, it's your brain. So I'm sort of still adapting. My brain is still learning to hear again, like I should have, especially the higher frequencies. So it's been overall a positive experience. I will say though, that on the sort of challenging side, that the linkage with the cell phone is not very good. So I'm constantly battling with people on the other end of the phone they can't hear me very well. If I get more than 6 or 8ft away from my phone while I'm talking, one ear or the other will drop out, and sometimes the connection totally gets lost. So that's baffling to me because I've had Bluetooth, you know, phone accessories before, and I could get 40, 50ft away and I'd be okay. But, you know, I think Oticon is working on that. I hope they, hope they get it squared away, because that's a downside for me. I don't listen to really music or streaming audio in my hearing aid, so I can't comment about that. You know the result that I got is very good. The most challenging areas when you're in a restaurant, there's a lot of background noise, a lot of chatter, a lot of, you know, clanging and banging and that a lot of background music, you know, but I'm still adapting. So I think overall, the hearing aids do a really good job. I'm pleased with what I've got. I'm pleased with the service that I've got. I'm pleased with the provider and the price point that I got the hearing aids for. So that's my review, and I hope this is useful to you. Thanks.

Hi, I'm Jim, first time user of hearing aids with moderate hearing loss. After extensive research, I chose the Oticon intent one hearing aids. I read many reviews and came upon zip hearing which provided excellent information on hearing aids and excellent video reviewing several hearing aids. They provided me with an individualized audiologist who provided great service, fitting and adjusting my hearing aids to my specific needs. The service was excellent and saved me a lot of money. I've been using the hearing aids for several months now and found them to be excellent and easy to use. Zip hearing provided follow up service for a year and had a three year warranty. As you can see, the hearing aid is very compact and easy to use and the charger is also pretty easy to use. The battery lasts a long time, approximately, uh, 24 hours with each charge. The hearing aids fit comfortably and indiscreetly behind the ear, and they are comfortable for long period of time. The Oticon intent one hearing aids have been a life changer for me. I'm able to participate easily in conversations and loud places like restaurants, feeling engaged and attentive, not left out. My wife is also very happy that I no longer say why and she does not have to repeat herself. I'm also able to listen and understand TV programs easily without having to turn up the volume. The interface with my iPhone is excellent, with great music streaming quality and reception of phone calls. The Oticon app works well and makes control of the hearing aid easy. The sound of the Oticon intent one is very natural and clear. I can highly recommend the Oticon intent one's and zip hearing, which provide excellent individualized service. I hope this information has been useful and, helps you on your road to finding the best hearing aids possible. Thanks.

Hello, my name is Jim and I'm 68 years old and I have had hearing loss for a while. I was putting it off and putting it off and, finally realized that I was in fact not able to hear music. I've spent a lot of time playing rock n roll and listening to rock n roll, and it's one of my favorite things to do. And I realized I wasn't hearing it the way I used to, and that was part of it. And that, along with the fact that my wife was reminding me on a regular basis. And so I went to a couple of audiologists and just was not happy with the way they presented it, the way they offered products. They didn't seem to have a good range of products to offer and I chose to go to zip hearing based on a referral from a friend, went to see a very experienced audiologist doctor, who fitted me with Oticon Intent 1 hearing aids and very small, very lightweight and they're great. They work great. I chose these because, really the doctor did a great job of fitting them for me. He offered them in a way that I was able to understand what he was doing and the zip hearing aid team provided the support and the fitting, so I didn't have to pay extra for fitting, which some of the audiologists were, going to charge me an extra fee to just fit these. These came at a better price. And with all the service that I'll need for at least a year, replacement, with a minimal deductible. And, I really am surprised at how well I can hear how much of an improvement its made in my life. I like the fact that I can change the settings on my phone and be able to adapt to where I am, especially listening to music and doing the things that I like to do with music. So, I would recommend zip hearing highly. The whole experience was very positive and after wearing these now for several months, it has made a positive impact in my life. I feel when I sit in restaurants with a group of people, I can actually hear what they're saying instead of just smiling and pretending like I'm hearing what they're saying. And that's a nice feeling. There's really not anything that I don't like about the process. Getting old is a journey, and we got to do what we got to do. So, I've had a great experience, and, everything is great.

Hello my name is Robert, if you’re looking at this review for hearing aids, then you must think that you need them. And if your friends and family are telling you you need hearing aids, then I assure you, you do need them. Like many older men, my overall hearing has declined, but mainly the high pitched sounds declined the most, due to working construction when I was younger and not wearing hearing protection. I got my first hearing aids in 2008. I would not have been able to function in a corporate environment without them. The current hearing aids are my fourth set of Oticons. I know they’re several choices in the Oticon family of hearing aids. I selected the Oticon Intent. First of all I’d like to show you the hearing aid, you can see the hearing aid is very discreet you see a little tube it runs up my ear, and the hearing itself is behind the ear, behind the ear hearing aid and it’s very comfortable, you don’t even know you have it on, you can’t feel it, once you get used to it, it just, it’s just there. Quickly put it in, and the tube fits very well in your ear, they have different sizes, make sure that it’s up against your ear so you don’t even see it. The thing I like about the hearing aid is, oh, the other thing I want to show you is the charger. I know it’s hard to see but there is a red and blue dot, the red is the right hearing aid, and the blue is the left. The charger is easy to use, it has about a 5 foot cord on it so it reaches you know very far, you don’t have to worry about getting too close to a plug. My previous hearing aids were all battery operated hearing aids. This is the first rechargeable hearing aid that I’ve used and really like them. They last close to 24 hours when fully charged. I put mine on in the morning and I take them off when I go to bed. At least 50 percent of the battery is last at the end of my day, so I know they’re charged and doing well. I could go pretty much 24 hours if I needed to. A feature that I like about the charger is you don’t have to turn the hearing aid off, you just put the hearing aid in the charger and it automatically cuts itself off, a red light comes on showing you it is charging. When you take it out in the morning you just pick it up and put it in your ear and it automatically comes on, so that’s a real nice feature. The last hearing aids I wore for 6 years so they were pretty much ready for retirement, I thought I would look at the internet to price hearing aids and found ZipHearing on the website, I reviewed the Oticon Intent hearing aids on their website and made contact, they quickly provided me information to contact a local ENT doctor in my area for an appointment. Upon arriving, they made me feel very comfortable and treated me like I was one of their walk-in customers. I was professionally tested, we reviewed the results, which I was used to seeing but it was worse. After reviewing the test we discussed the different hearing aids. I chose the Intent hearing aids, it’d only been out on the market for several months and had all the latest technology. Once the order was placed and payment made, my hearing aids were ready for me to be fitted in 3 days which is pretty quickly considering they had to be shipped in, so very happy with that. I’m extremely happy with my choice, they have many features that I like, but the one I like the most is the sound equalizer that allows me to change from my phone app, the low, medium, high pitch sound myself, that way you don’t have to go in for an adjustment at the audiologist, this makes speech and other daily sounds more realistic to me. My experience with ZipHearing has been great, I cannot think of one thing that has disappointed me, the price was competitive, the service was great, I would go this route again to purchase hearing aids. Hope this helps, and good luck.

My name is Connie and I have worn hearing aids for over 11 years and I had a pair of hearing aids that were 11 years old and they were still working but not quite as well. So I felt like I needed to replace them, and I was referred to ZipHearing from a relative who had used ZipHearing and was very pleased with the whole process so I thought I'd check it out. I went onto their website and then I called and was referred to a local audiologist to go in for a hearing exam which I did. The local audiologist gave me a very thorough hearing test and exam, I was very pleased with that. He was very knowledgeable, very patient, answered all my questions. We sat down and looked at all the options that I had through ZipHearing as far as replacing my old hearing aids. My old hearing aids were Oticons and I decided since they worked so well that I would stick with that brand, Oticon, I went with the Oticon Intent 2 miniRITE, it's very similar in size to what I had and functions, the domes are improved, the domes only have to be replaced every 3 months and they have the ability to somehow enhance the whole hearing process, these particular domes that I have. This has all the bells and whistles if you want to use them, Bluetooth and all that, so, that's a plus there, these are rechargeable, my old ones had replaceable batteries that I replaced every week. The recharging unit is small, I was kinda concerned about the size of it because of travel but it is small, it would be very easy to pack and you just place the hearing aids in there at night and they recharge. The battery never goes dead in the day so they last a long time. I was very pleased with the whole process, it was very easy, the people were very knowledgeable. I would highly recommend that you check out ZipHearing. I would say I would highly recommend that you have confidence in the local audiologist that they refer you to, I couldn't be more pleased with the one I had and the value of the hearing aid, what you would pay through an ear doctor's office is not comparable, so I would highly recommend you check out ZipHearing for your next hearing aid, thank you.

Hello I'm Joel, I know finding hearing aids is very difficult. I've had hearing loss for about 20 years and had I think 5 different hearing aids. The first audiologist let me try a few and I ended up with Oticon, and over the years I have had, in needing to replace and upgrade, I've had to go to different audiologists because I moved and they would give me an opportunity to try different brands. Every single time I came back to Oticon and presently, in looking at the system of being able to buy and get good service, I landed on ZipHearing, and the last couple of times my hearing aids have come through ZipHearing. I like this because 1 they make all the arrangement's, there's a local audiologist, and you get a good price. So presently I landed on, if you can see it, the Oticon Intent. And the Oticon Intent is a really sophisticated hearing aid and what I find most interesting is the day I got them I came home and turned the TV down, and my wife laughed, she said you've never done that over the time that you've had hearing impairment. So turned it down and I think the most, from my standpoint, the most significant hearing benefit is being able to hear the different between the “s” and the “f” and things of that nature, those things that those of us hearing impaired were just like not sure what that was. The Oticon Intent does that extremely well and better than anything that I've ever seen or heard of before. The other thing that was important to me was to be able to have an app and here they have the app that is the Companion app that goes with it, because there you can switch it out and being able to change your streaming, because I tend to like to stream music through it, and you go into, even though it adapts automatically, when you go into speech with you know noise and things, sometimes I turn it on ahead of time, I really haven't had to do that because the system is so sophisticated it switches it out automatically, but I do on occasion because I have a staff that works for me, I'll push a button and put the phone on the table and can pick up some things pretty good. Along with that comes the charger and it's just a simple drop it in, it uses a usb and they send you a specific charger so you have the right wattage and I never really run into trouble and I've sometimes had my hearing aids in for 24 hours and I haven't run out of power yet in about 3 months. Now I tend to also buy the Connect Clip. Now the reason I use the Connect Clip, which is a simple thing that you can make it as a external mic and you can put it somewhere or whatever, is it allows me to be able to Bluetooth anything and so I can Bluetooth to my iPad, I can Bluetooth to my computer so I can use it when I travel and things of that nature. So for me this was a great add on and I've had this for a couple of years, and I had the Oticon OPN S before this, and they just work seamlessly. So overall I find myself extremely satisfied with the Intent and very satisfied with ZipHearing, so if it helps you out that's just where I landed with a lot of research and a lot of experience and I don't think you'll be disappointed with the Oticon Intent.

Hi my name is Elaine and I'm here to tell you about my experience with hearing aids. I've been wearing hearing aids for about the last 10 years. I have pretty moderate almost to severe hearing loss. And I've been an active RN for the past 44 years, so hearing has been really important to me, crisp, precise hearing is of utmost importance. So my last pair of hearing aids did me well but I did notice that there were certain problems with them, sounds of wind, when I was out in the car, or sailing, and problem with clarity when I was at a restaurant, I started looking into new hearing aids and I heard about the Oticon Intent 1, brand new on the market. Bout its 4D technology and how it adapted to my hearing needs, especially good in reducing background noises, wind reduction, and worked in places that I like to go, like restaurants and theaters, out on pickleball courts and outside being active, it's important to me socially to be active and to be able to hear people without asking to repeat statements so I contacted ZipHearing about the Oticon 1 and the process was simple, easy, very professional, um Oticon 1 I've had now for about 3 months and I am very happy with it, it has improved my hearing tremendously. I have no more problems with wind noise, I have no more problems in restaurants or even out like I said on a pickleball court where I have people talking to me from all different directions, I noticed that it's comfortable to wear, it streams well, I use my iPhone and my iPad, iPad to listen to music and even look at television and videos on it and I have absolutely no issues with it connecting well with that. It's very comfortable, I do wear glasses 90 percent of the time, I have it in now, not noticeable, and they're very comfortable with the glasses on, I don't have any problems with them interfering. First time for me using a charger instead of batteries and I found that wonderful experience, batteries last supposedly for 20 hours. I'm up at 6 in the morning, those hearing aids go in right away and they last me all day through to 11 or 12 at night, no issues. What else can I say, the ZipHearing process worked well, they connected me with a professional audiologist in my area, fixed me up with the hearing aids and I've had no issues. I highly recommend the Oticon 1 minirite that I have, it's the best you can do for your ears and your problems and adapting as well as possible to make life the easiest for you. Thank you

Hi there. My name is Sharlene and I'm going to take just a few minutes and tell you about my hearing journey. Back when I was in junior high school, I had great hearing and then my dad bought mini bikes, then mini motorcycles, then dirt bikes, which included some racing. Always wearing a helmet. Had no clue about needing hearing protection inside the helmet. So it started back then. Once I graduated high school and college, I bought a street bike. Some friends and I rode sometimes 500 miles a day in Southern California just because we love to ride, once again Helmet, no hearing protection inside the you know, in my ears, inside the helmet. I joined LAPD. I was a member of the honor guard. More noise. 21 gun salutes, not able to wear hearing protection and we were firing blanks. Which out of a rifle that's this far from your head is really loud. I also shot on the pistol team. So, as you can see, I had a lot of noise around my head most of my life. When we moved to Texas back in the early 2000s, I met a group, got another motorcycle. Actually, I went through about three because I didn't like the ones I had, and we rode all over North Central Texas on the fast, curvy roads so much fun. Once again, not realizing I should put earplugs or something in my ears, I just rode. I loved it, it was great. Then you kind of notice that something's off, but I wasn't really thinking too much about it. I didn't notice that my hearing was out of whack or anything until it was the start of this year, and my hubby and I are sitting in here with the TV on, and we kept turning it up and turning it up and turning it up, and we got it all the way up to about 50%, which is a lot. And I started realizing that maybe I needed to get my hearing checked. My ears hadn't been checked probably in 40 years. Seriously, I don't think they were checked ever after I left the police department, so that was kind of a wake up call. He couldn't hear me. I couldn't hear him. Not well anyway. And neither of us could hear the TV unless it was really cranked up loud. So at that point, at the beginning of the year, I decided to get my hearing checked. I found a place in one of the local towns I went, and I had no clue about what to look for with hearing aids or anything like that. And I went to a wasn't an audiologist, it was just a company that sold hearing, did hearing tests and sold hearing aids. And I found out that my hearing was a lot worse than I thought it was. My right ear is right at the line of severe. My left ear is not quite so bad just my right ear is very bad. The problem is they only sold one kind of hearing aid, and it was a good one. It's one of the top five. But their programming, as I know now, because it's been a while, was not doing the job for me and my hearing issues. And I just happened to be watching YouTube videos put out by zip hearing. Thank you Jeff, for putting out this video about what to look for and what to avoid actually, from hearing aid salespeople. And basically it was everything I had no clue about. It was free hearing tests. Only one kind. I love that clock. Only one kind of hearing aid. One brand and the programming part of it just never seemed to hit what I needed to hit. And they went back to the lab. I don't I can't even tell you how many times they had to get sent back to the lab and all this while I was still watching videos, everything that was put out on zip hearing everything that was put out by other audiologists. I scoured zip hearing website looking for their brands and watching the videos both there and the ones that were put on YouTube just to find out what people who had purchased from Zip Hearing had to say about the hearing aids. They got the service from the company and Everything was amazing. There were just so many good things said about Zip hearing and the people that they worked with there. And so I started due to these videos, I started narrowing down what I thought I wanted and then ding ding ding, out came this little thing. I don't know if you can see it, because I'm not very good at this, but it's the Oticon intent one. It is small, and actually, if I had enough hands, you can put them in your hand and I can put a quarter and it will a quarter will cover both hearing aids. I actually have a picture where I did that. They're small, they're light, they are really good at connecting to Bluetooth. I don't have any connection issues at all. I'm still getting more familiar with them because it's only been, you know, six weeks or something. It hasn't been long enough to fully adjust to them. I did keep the other pair, which I'm not going to name because it's a good brand, but I just bought it the wrong way. What I did was I talked to Grant at Zip hearing. I told him what I was looking for. By then I had it narrowed down to the Oticon intent and there was the Phonak and there was resound Nexia. So I had it narrowed down to three, and Grant asked me if I was ready, and I said yes. He sent me to a well about 30 miles from here. Audiologist who is wonderful, thank you Grant. Doctor Beatty is great and we sat down. His primary selling hearing aid is Starkey, which I know is good. He goes, well, you know, Starkey is good. And I said, well, yeah, but I had a really bad experience with a locked version of that hearing aid, because apparently these little centers tend to lock the programming so that another audiologist can't get in and adjust them. If you happen to, say, need help while you're on a trip or something, you have to get on your internet, get on the phone and find a dealer that has them marketed the same way as the place where I bought them. So I made the decision I was going to get something different Oticon and that I was going to keep the other set as a backup. And so far that's what I'm doing. They're still not adjusted correctly. I'm still not getting what I feel I should have been getting from them all along. They've never been quite right. But if something happens like, oh, I don't know, time to change the battery and it has to get the Oticon has to get sent off to the lab. I have a backup set, and that's really my main purpose for hanging on to that set, even though it sits in its case on my dresser all the time. I will say that the customer service at Zip hearing is phenomenal. It's absolutely phenomenal. Grant has been great, I actually I love gadgets, I do. So I got and I hope you can see this. This is the new travel charger that will hold three charges. And I took you can see the lights on back there now. I unplugged it and I didn't take the charger off because it plugs in back behind a dresser and I didn't feel like messing with trying to get the dresser out of the way. This is great, especially if you like, we have got dogs who are who shed a lot. We have shedders and this, I Don't have to worry about having something covering the top of my charger, like the one that comes with the hearing aids to keep the dog hair and dust and all of that out. Very, very excellent. I don't know if you travel or not, but if you have pets, this is good. And then I just got this. So I haven't used it yet. But if it's like everything else I've had my hands on, that is Oticon. It's going to be amazing. This is the TV streamer and I can't wait to try it. If it connects as well as my hearing aids connect to my phone, I'm happy. I am very happy. I think that that's pretty much it. Do I wish I had gotten my hearing checked along the way, like in that 40 years? Yes, I do, but you know, you're young, you're having fun, you're doing all kinds of things, and you just it just really didn't think about it. I had no clue and I am not going to make that mistake again. I've got a great audiologist. Every pair of hearing aids I buy from now on will be through Zip hearing. Their reviews are great, their explanations are great. They're everything that has to do with any brand of hearing aid is right there. So you can compare and with the videos, you have the opportunity to hear what other people are saying. And so I don't know how much this helps, but I will say if you've got young children, boy, make sure that that they have a hearing protection on under their helmets or whatever it is, because that was probably the biggest mistake between the guns, the ammo, the motorcycles, the honor guard when, you know, couldn't put anything in the ears to do the rifle volleys and a lot of motorcycle time, and I would definitely do it over again if I knew better. And since I can't redo it, I'm just going to stick with Zip hearing and continue. I still watch their videos. I still enjoy looking at the videos no matter what the brand is. Because while I love this Oticon and right now, since I've only had it for just a very short time, I can't imagine going to a different brand. But it could happen and if I keep up with what with what's out there, then I'll be better prepared. I won't make the same mistakes again. Thank you Zip hearing. Thank you Grant. You all are amazing.

Hello, my name is Harry and I live in tradition, Florida. I want to talk to you for a minute about hearing aids. I've been wearing them for about 20 or 25 years now and tried a number of different brands. The last brands I had were Oticon, and I wanted to try those again, but I had heard these ads on the TV and radio about free trials, risk free, yadda yadda yadda. So, I called the company, and they hooked me up with a local hearing, audiologist and gave me seniors, they told me they could get any other brands I wanted, and I could try one and then move to the other. I told them immediately that I was not going to buy anything until I at least tried the new updated Oticon, since I had liked the old Oticon better than anything else. The seniors were the best hearing aids that I had tried concerning music. The bass is booming. It's like having air buds in your ears but listening to conversations and in noise they weren't that good. So, after 20 or 25 days, I said, I'm done with these. I want to at least try the Oticons and maybe Phonak. They said, no problem, we'll get them for you a week later. They hadn't gotten them two weeks later they hadn't gotten them. Bottom line is they never got them. They couldn't get them, and they returned my money that I had put down for the seniors. I then went to Zip hearing. Zip hearing was almost transparent or invisible, let's say. I spoke to them once or twice and they were out of the picture, which is basically what you want. You don't want somebody selling you and selling you, zip hearing referred me to wave audiology down in Port Saint Lucie and that office was absolutely fantastic. They got the Oticons, they had them. They gave me the free trial. The Oticons worked much better for me than the seniors did because the hearing, the voice, the speaking, the conversations were all much clearer. I was amazed at how wonderfully I could hear all of the conversations going on. I didn't think it was actually even possible to do that. I dealt solely with the wave office. They were incredible. Always on time. Always wonderful to deal with. They showed a true desire to get me in the best ones, after a couple of weeks, I told wave that I thought these were much better, was there anything else they thought I should try? And they recommended the Phonak. I tried the Phonak also, the Phonak were almost equally as good, but they had a few little, drawbacks to them when it would switch from the phone media back to hearing aids, they would get a little quirky. They wouldn't switch as easily or as well, and they were a little more finicky. So, I ended up with the Oticons. I can't say enough about the good points for both zip, who basically was out of the picture, which is what you want. You don't want them calling you and questioning you and doing stuff and wave audiology, which was there every minute of the day whenever I needed them, they even gave me, like, cell phone numbers if there's any problem. This is the Oticon charger if you can see that. I'm not sure you can. Let's see if I can hook it on. I can't even hook it up so I can see it, I don't know there it is. There's the Oticon charger and here are my Oticon Intent hearing aids. If you can see those, they're very small. They're extremely efficient. For me, they work better than anything else. I highly recommend wave. I highly recommend zip hearing and, I hope you have the same kind of experience with them that I did. Have a great day and good luck with your search.

Hey ya’ll. So I am doing a review on some hearing aids. My name is Bob. 4 years ago I was diagnosed with a slight hearing loss, high pitched, and also tinnitus. So when I was looking around I had a choice of a few different hearing aids. I went, my first choice was Widex which was 4 years ago, Widex Moment 440s, and they were good. I chose this time around, which was this year, the Oticon Intent. The reason why I chose them is I thought they had a better natural hearing sound. The charging station, I can show this to you. The charging station is really cool, they will stay charged the full day, so I don’t have to worry about changing batteries, they’re all inside. So yeah they are very well done. My tinnitus was something I had to look at, so again at the beginning I had the Widex Moment 440s which had a little bit of the tinnitus sounds to it, to help you and the Oticons however, had some of that, but whenever I plugged them in and used them, I found them to be a little bit more of the natural hearing. So I felt that that was a little bit better of an alternative for me. I gotta tell you they’re solid as a rock. I had no question about whether I would’ve chose the right one, because I did have an opportunity to have the Moment 440s, the Widex, for a few years, so I had a pretty good idea of which ones to look at and which I was looking at. The pros: The earwax filter I think is a better, they last longer in the Oticons, the Con, if there was one, is putting it in the ear. I thought the Moments were a little bit easier to put in the ear but again, this is a small little detail. Both have the 3 year warranty so that’s excellent so if something happens you can get those replaced at a very minimal cost. I would highly recommend them, there’s not even a question. I enjoy them, I think they’re the best of the two, for me. Now as far as the cost, so, whenever I decided on the Oticon Intent, I went and I started calling hearing aid companies, and I found that the prices were all over the board I mean they were just from one place to another. So I finally ended up online. I heard this somewhere that ZipHearing was doing some of this as well, and this was all online, however that you would go to a hearing aid company that would test you and also would fit you. And so when I talked to Grant Davidson at ZipHearing and I said hey these are the ones I’m looking for, so I had a pretty good idea what I was trying to find, and I decided on the Oticons, and he gave me a price. The price is by far better than any price I got if I called separately by the companies. So If you call the companies, get a price if they’ll give it to you, then call ZipHearing and say hey these are my hearing aids I’m looking for, I think that you’ll find that ZipHearing will do a better price, and they’ll get you a place where it’s close to where you live that you can go in and get them fitted and get the price that you’d already negotiated. So, my advice, check around, get a price, decide on which hearing aid you want, then call ZipHearing and Grant Davidson, and I guarantee you they will do you no wrong.

Hi, my name is Walter and I'm hard of hearing or maybe I should say I used to be hard of hearing. My hearing is a lot better since I purchased a pair of Oticon Intent 2s through Zip Hearing. My hearing has been degrading over the past 5 or 6 years. As you can see, I'm a musician. Played guitar, a little bit of keyboards, and I sing in a men's chorus. I was having difficulty in the men's chorus hearing my director, and that's pretty important in a chorus, because directors do what they do, they direct, and not hearing him put me at a disadvantage and it was, my singing was suffering. So that and together with my wife encouraging me to go out and find something that would enable me to hear her a little better. I started exploring the world of hearing aids. I went to an ENT. I had a hearing test, and I was surprised at how much my hearing had degraded. So my first step was to buy an over-the-counter pair of hearing aids called Jabra. I used the Jabra's for about 6 or 8 months and found that they weren't suitable for my degree of hearing loss, which is considered severe. So I went to another ENT, had a hearing test, that ENT offered me a set of Oticon Intent 2s, I'm sorry, 3s. There are three levels of the Intent, at a considerable amount of money, and I hesitated and then I decided I should go out and investigate alternative sources for hearing aids, and I found Zip Hearing and fortunately, I did find Zip Hearing because they offered me an even better set of Oticon's the intent 2 at $1,000 less than the ENT I had visited had offered them. So, I contacted Zip Hearing and purchased a set of Oticon 2s from them and have the hearing aid right here before you. You can see this is the body of the hearing aid with the very sophisticated electronics in it. And this is the speaker that fits into your ear canal. They're very comfortable. Sometimes I don't even know that I have them on. I doubt I do and when I have to check, I find that they are inserted into my ear canal, after all, and that's why I'm hearing so well. So great comfort, great technology, and a real, a real boon to my life. It's changed my life actually, enabled me to get more involved in conversations with people, to hear my music better, to hear the nuances of the guitar that I'm playing, to hear the voices around me so I can harmonize with them. Lots more I can say about the Oticon line. Oticons are a terrific hearing aid, rated among the top three in the world by audiologists. But I have been informed that not every hearing aid manufacturer is the one for everyone out there. So please explore the world of hearing aids. Find out what those top 3 or 4 are. Speak with Zip Hearing, they'll give you great advice. They'll connect you with a local audiologist. Mine was terrific, located here in Yonkers, New York. So, with that, I thank Zip Hearing for improving my life so greatly and I thank the local audiologist for fitting and setting up my hearing aids, in a very good fashion. And I wish you all luck. And I wish you good hearing in the future. Thanks a lot. Bye bye.

Hello, my name is Jeff. I have severe to profound hearing loss. Depending on the frequency. So in that high range, it's profound. I chose Oticon intent 1. So you can kind of see what that looks like. I did a lot of research before I bought these. These were my second pair of hearing aids, the first ones I got were from Costco, and I had those for just over three and a half years. And about a year ago, I tried hearing aids again. This time I went with a high end brand, and I had them for several weeks. But they were very expensive and at the time, let's say it was about a year and a half ago, they just didn't improve my hearing that much. Not enough to justify the six grand that they wanted for those. So, I kind of hand and hawed a bit, continued to have some loss, even with my, Costco hearing aids. I went and had Costco make some modifications. I still didn't like the final result. It just wasn't quite what I needed. I guess my hearing probably was worse than when I first got these. Anyway, so I did a lot of research again here after getting tired, not being able to hear what was on TV. And a lot of my friends, you know, repeating what they had to say to me and I was getting a little tired of that. So, I did a lot of research again, I went on the internet and all the videos, same old hype. Hey, these are the best, you know, same thing I heard when I was researching, you know, year before year and a half before that. The new hearing aids are the greatest thing ever. So I was very skeptical. But after doing a lot of research, I ended up choosing these oticon intent ones, and a lot of that was based on the capability of these things. Since I wear them every day, I figured it was going to be worth the money to do the difference between the intent one and the 2 or 3 of the intent 1 just has more adjustability for the audiologist to deal with. I guess the final thing that sold me on that was I went to Zip Hearing, and they had a chart that showed least return hearing aids, and at the time these oticon 1s, intent 1s were the least returned. And to me, if you're going to pay, you know, six, five, six, $7,000 for hearing aids and they don't work well for you, you're going to return them. And since these were the least return. I went on that based on all the other stuff too. I mean, there's a ton of things that these hearing aids can do. Now, the number of channels is a stunning compared to what I had before. So anyway, I got these. The hearing was fantastic. I called them, I said, hey, I see you've got the intent one. I'm interested in that. I live in Idaho and gave me my location and they said, okay, here's where you can go and they got them for you. Just go in and you know, schedule or schedule something. So I did that and that was it. I mean, when it came to Zip Hearing, that was it. They didn't stay on the phone with me and try to sell me something else or anything. They just said, okay, that's great and now if I didn't know what I wanted, I'm not sure. You know, I didn't try them that way. So I'm not sure if they'd help you out if you were looking for something. But I did have an idea in mind already. Okay, so, end result is I really like these. These are substantially better. Really no comparison. I took these off. I was helping a friend build a cabin and there's a lot of dust there and a lot of noise. So I thought, well, let me take my old hearing aids, my Costco hearing aids, and try those so that if they get dusty or something or damaged, I'm not going to worry about it too much. And I put those on and man, that was just like, how the heck did I hear with these before? It was really something with the difference is dramatic. They sound very hollow. These have a clarity that I really like and that really sold me on them. Is voices sound like voices? There's a I think clarity is just the right word for it. They're just much clearer when you turn the volume up. I turned them up once in a while and the TV's a little bit low. I'll turn them up and everything improves in volume. It's with the other hearing aids. I had you turn them up and the everything that you didn't like was also increased, but these don't have a lot of sound that I don't like. They're reproducing what I want to hear and so when I turn them up, they turn up what I need to hear. When I turn them down, it's the same thing if I'm in a loud room or something, I just don't quite like the volume I can turn it down and I can still make out voices, because that clarity is not lost in that lower volume and I'm not sure how that's going to work for everybody. I've got to say, for me, these are really nice. They're not perfect, and they're still I've been in restaurants where it's very loud and it's hard to hear some people, but, the first time we went out for dinner at a nice place, the waitress said, have a nice evening. She was across the room, you know, on the other end of the table and I was like, whoa, I heard what she said. This was fantastic. So they're better. It's not perfect, but my hearing is not perfect, and it will never be perfect. So right now, I'm very excited with these. The only thing I need to do now is, portray to my friends that I can actually hear them. Right, so every now and then when I don't hear something, it's like, oh, you know, he's still got hearing problems and of course I do, but I can hear so much better and like on TV, we were watching something and I couldn't make out what the woman said, like, oh no, I can't hear this. And my wife, my wife, who has incredibly good hearing, ridiculously good hearing, she goes, could you tell what that was? I said, no. So I thought, great, okay. It wasn't just me. People with normal hearing couldn't hear that. And you got to kind of get used to that. There's going to be times when you don't hear something that you wouldn't have heard anyway. It just you don't. You're not going to hear everything. You're not going to make everything out. Now, one thing I do notice is if I'm focused on something and I'm listening to something and somebody else is talking to me, I won't hear that and I don't know if that's a hearing loss thing or what they could. Hey, hey, you know, get my attention if I'm really focused on something, that's how it, you know, that's how my hearing is. So I've been rambling a lot. Summary, Zip Hearing was terrific. They saved me a lot of money. They did not try to sell me anything. Their website had some really good information that I thought was, um, you know, generic, not motivated towards one product or another, but just told you, here's the results of these and here's what people think of them and I thought that was really, really good. You can watch the YouTube videos on these, but they're all so hyped up. It's just, you've seen them. You've probably done the same thing. If this is not your first time looking for hearing aids, you'll see the video, say how great everything is and, you know, anyway, so that's it. Oticon intent one, Zip Hearing highly recommended. Good luck in your search. I hope you find something that works for you. Boy, it sure makes my life better to be able to hear people thank you. Bye.