Phonak Audéo Lumity

Summary: Nick is highly positive about his experience with the Phonak Audéo Lumity 90 hearing aids, particularly valuing their impact on his personal and professional life, especially given his recent hearing loss and his work in music. He appreciates their Bluetooth connectivity, allowing him to link multiple devices simultaneously and the hands-free calling feature, which eliminates the need for additional accessories. Despite his overall satisfaction, Nick notes a shortfall in music streaming quality with open domes but mentions potential fixes. He praises their comfort, battery life, and discreet design. While critical of the app's interface, he finds its functionality beneficial. Nick advises others to prioritize their needs when choosing hearing aids, underscoring his positive endorsement of the Phonak Lumity 90 based on their ability to meet his specific requirements and enhance his hearing experience.

Summary: Roy shares his positive experience with Phonak Audéo Lumity Life 90 hearing aids, particularly the Lumity R Life model. Having used hearing aids for 12 years due to severe hearing loss, Roy values the advanced technology and features that improve his active lifestyle, including group meetings and family gatherings. He praises the device's camouflage with his glasses, the effectiveness of custom earmolds, and the convenience of the portable charger and Roger On accessory for enhancing speech clarity in various environments. Roy is impressed by the AutoSense 5.0 technology for its adaptive settings and appreciates the waterproof rating, which gives him confidence in the device's durability. He enjoys the natural sound quality, Bluetooth connectivity for seamless audio streaming, and effortless phone calls. However, he notes the mobile app's slow response and the battery's limited streaming capacity, yet manages these drawbacks effectively. Roy strongly recommends Phonak Lumity to others, emphasizing the importance of choosing hearing aids that fit one's needs and advocating for the removal of stigma around hearing aid usage, highlighting the improvement in quality of life they bring.

Summary: Bob from Amsterdam, NY, shares his positive experience with his first set of hearing aids, Phonak Audéo Lumity 50R, acquired through ZipHearing, emphasizing their affordability and the quality service he received. Initially deterred by the high prices quoted by his local audiologist, Bob turned to ZipHearing based on favorable online reviews and significantly lower prices. He was recommended an audiologist within a reasonable distance for a consultation, where he opted for the Phonak Lumity 50 hearing aids, specifically a mid-tier model based on professional advice, which suited his hearing loss needs without exceeding them. Bob highlights the smooth fitting process, including adjustments to the dome types to eliminate feedback issues, expressing satisfaction with the final product and the service. He also appreciates the assistance provided by ZipHearing in facilitating an insurance claim, ultimately recommending ZipHearing for their cost-effectiveness and customer service.

Summary: Suzanne shares her positive transition into using hearing aids, specifically the Phonak Lumity model, after realizing her hearing loss was affecting her social interactions and relationships. She consulted multiple audiologists, all of whom recommended Phonak, assuring her that they had no financial incentive to do so. Despite initial concerns about the high-tech features and her lack of technological expertise, Suzanne found the Lumity aids user-friendly, particularly appreciating their self-adjusting capabilities and minimal need for manual adjustments. She highlights the convenience of the Bluetooth connectivity, allowing her to listen to audiobooks and receive phone notifications directly through the hearing aids. However, she notes some challenges, such as keeping the device secure while removing glasses or masks and occasional unwanted Bluetooth connections. Overall, Suzanne is satisfied with her hearing aids, valuing the significant improvement in her quality of life and communication with others.

Summary: Tom, a professional engine builder exposed to loud environments, shares his journey through various hearing aid experiences, culminating in his satisfaction with Phonak Audéo Lumity Life 90 hearing aids. His work around high-performance engines contributed to his substantial hearing loss, making communication challenging, especially in noisy settings. After disappointing experiences with other brands and sales-driven audiologists, Tom emphasizes the contrast with Phonak's Audéo Lumity 90's performance, value, and rechargeability. He appreciates the extended battery life and sealed unit design, which prevents sweat damage, a problem he faced with previous aids. Tom highlights the significant improvement in hearing and communication at work and in social settings, marking the change as almost life-changing. He advises potential hearing aid users to differentiate between audiologists and salespeople, emphasizing the importance of seeking solutions over sales. Tom's positive experience with Phonak reflects in his ability to engage in conversations, enjoy music, and participate in meetings without additional devices. He concludes by recommending this hearing aid for its natural sound quality and user-friendly features, offering a stark contrast to his previous negative experiences with other hearing aid brands.

Summary: Steven reviews the Phonak Audéo Lumity 90 rechargeable hearing aids, highlighting their compact size, discretion, and performance. He appreciates the all-day battery life but notes the lack of a portable charging option as a drawback. The hearing aids provide clear calls and allow for streaming of various audio content, with easy control through a mobile app. However, Steven points out some issues, such as occasional Bluetooth connectivity problems and limited equalizer options during streaming, especially for Android users. He appreciates the personalized adjustments possible through collaboration with an audiologist, facilitated by ZipHearing, and contrasts his positive experience with these hearing aids to a less satisfactory one with Rexton hearing aids from Costco, which lacked advanced features. Despite minor inconveniences, Steven highly recommends Phonak Audeo Lumity for those seeking feature-rich hearing aids, while suggesting that simpler models might suffice for users with basic needs.

Hi, this is a review for Phonak’s Audeo Lumity 90 hearing aids, and I have worn hearing aids for a long time, I’ve had hearing loss since I was very young, from lots of ear infections and tubes in my ears 10 times from a young age to teenage years, so lots of scar tissue that causes my hearing loss. I have a pair of the Audeo Lumity 90s and they look like this, they have the toggle switch on the back that allows, you can program for different things, but mine allow the volume to increase when I toggle it up and decrease when I toggle it down. They can also be touched to answer phone calls and Siri can be used on these hearing aids as well, lots of features that I did not have with my past hearing aids, but before this pair I wore, an also a 90s version of the Phonaks that were the top of the line at the time and they’re still working after 6 years but I wanted to just get the upgrade to experience the increased technology and better sound for the technology since I bought my original Phonaks. These do seem to be an upgrade for, especially in a restaurant situations and noisy situations I feel like these help me to hear everyone at the table easier, drown out the background noise easier, and they automatically go to that setting when I’m in those situations, but there is an app on your phone that you can customize and play with that if you need to but I haven’t felt the need to, I’ve felt like they’ve been great. The other thing I really enjoy is that they stream straight to my ears from my phone for phone calls, videos and music and the music quality is very good, it’s I compare it to my Apple Air Pods, sounds great, and very nice to be able to do that anytime and you don’t have to have your Air Pods with you. The other thing I love is that they are rechargeable, it was probably one of the reasons I got them. I was most excited about having a recharging case and not having to purchase batteries or have batteries with me and change out during activities, this just sits on my nightstand, plugs into the wall, very easy to travel with as well. And I have worn them from 5am to 1am and if I don’t charge any during that period, they will give me a 10 percent battery life warning around 1AM and I’ve learned though if I’m gonna have a full day like that I’m usually getting ready to go somewhere that night, so just while I’m getting ready I go ahead and put them in the charger for that 30 to 45 minutes, give them a great boost and then I have no issues at all with them getting close to running out. The other thing I love is that I went through ZipHearing for these and they were the best price online, I had shopped around at a local provider and the same hearing aids were much more expensive, and so I got online looking for the best quality and the best price and landed on ZipHearing.com, I contacted them, they set me up with a local provider that was within a few minutes of my house and I went and did a complimentary initial hearing test with them and they talked to me about which hearing aids would fit me best and it was the ones I was also considering the most and so they ordered those for me as well and when they came in then they called me into have them fitted and programmed to me as well as set up appointments a week out, or two weeks out, and a couple of different times during the first 45 days plus letting me know I could call and come in anything if I had any issues or questions with them, but no issues or questions arose, I just came in for them to check them over and everything was great, and those visits are all included in the price of your hearing aids as well. So very good value, very good warranty as well with the 3 year warranty on these, and so there, they look like this and they have had excellent feel and natural sound, I feel like the sound is very natural and crisp and I just forgot they’re even there, they’re so comfortable to wear, I think that is all I know, I hope this really helps, thank you so much.

My name is Michelle, I’m 53 years old, and I felt like that was a little young to get hearing aids but I was tired of not catching things people said to me at work, if I was just listening into a group conversation and not hearing well, when my teenager was talking to me, so I decided to get my hearing tested and check it out, and this is my first pair. And you can’t even hardly tell they’re there, and I got a color that went with my hair pretty well, and the model that I got was the Phonak Audeo and it’s the L70-RL, I chose that one because it’s more water resistant, I wear them to the gym, and I can sweat in them and I don’t have to worry about it, they’re fine, and I can hear people in my gym class speaking to me about the music. I also like to use the feature in the app for the setting ‘speech in loud noise’ if I’m at a restaurant with my family, or that kind of a setting, I can turn up the voices and kinda tone down the background noise a little bit. I do a lot of streaming with these also, they’re connected to my phone and the bluetooth, I listen to audiobooks and podcasts while I’m driving and doing chores and things, and I love how convenient it is so I can just stream all day long, I can put them in in the morning to be at work at 6 oclock and stream things off and on all day and put them into the charger at night at 9 or 10 and they, they’re just barely running out of charge at that time. Another thing they’ve been helpful for is I’ve watched a lot of old movies that don’t always have subtitles, and then that helps me to catch all the dialogue, wearing them to watch tv. So I’ve been pretty happy with these, I don’t even feel them a lot of the time, I don’t even realize I’ve got them on, and the one thing I did have to get used to is wearing them with my glasses and the arm of the glasses sits right on top of that, and if I have my glasses on a long time, I might start to notice it you know kinda pressing right there where the wire is, but generally they’re quite comfortable, I would recommend them, and I’m pretty happy with the improvement I’ve had. I’m young for this, I’m gonna have to be wearing these a long time so I wanted to be sure I found something that worked for me and that I liked, and if you’re thinking about getting hearing aids I would recommend, I would suggest, get your hearing tested, try it out, talk to people, I got to try a couple of different models before I settled on this one and the people at ZipHearing were so helpful to me with setting up the financial side and I saved so much money going with them. So, I am very happy that I did.

Hello, this is Mike, wanted to give a review of my Phonak Lumity hearing aids. They model I got is the Phonak L70. I’ve had hearing loss for years and finally decided to get hearing aids, I know my wife appreciates that. People seem to always have to get, have to repeat themselves to me, and that’s one of the reasons why I got the hearing aids. At work, I have to get instructions from my superintendent, and they don’t like repeating themselves either, so, one of my options was to get hearing aids, and they turned out to be pretty good actually. One of the best ‘likes’ I have for the Phonak, and I got the L70, they’re very comfortable. I dunno if you can see them in my ear right there, they’re almost impossible to see, I’ve even had guys at work bring up, ‘oh you wear hearing aids? I haven’t seen your hearing aids.” I have to actually point to them and show them that I do wear hearing aids. That’s one of the best things about it, it’s all day comfort, the battery lasts all day, even with streaming music in it most of the day. I run my equipment with the music playing and it has an ambient adjustment where you can hear the music better, and it less amplifies the equipment I’m on, so less noise from the equipment, and better streaming volume. One of the best things about hearing aids is not having to ask people to repeat themselves all the time, helps me understand conversations quite a bit better. I did start out using the over the counter hearing aids, they worked fair, but I figured, I guess I wore those for about a year, I figured it’s time to move up, you know, get something medical approved I guess you’d say, so I went to a hearing aid professional, had a hearing test done, and they were the ones who recommended the Phonak L70 for me. One of the dislikes about it is when I start the streaming, sometimes you can’t connect to the app to adjust the ambient, and I find the way to fix that is I just have to reset the Bluetooth and start over the process going through the app and streaming the music, but after I reset the bluetooth it works pretty good then. Like I said I can go all day long without having to charge the battery again and I work a 10 hour day so I put the hearing aids on about 5 in the morning and by 9 o'clock at night when I’m done, they’re still working, that’s one of the good things about it to. And again this is Mike, and this is my review.

Hello, my name is Rich, I’m a ZipHearing customer, actually a returning ZipHearing customer. A friend initially recommended ZipHearing I’m extremely pleased with ZipHearing’s service and customer service and the audiologists they’ve referred me to. This is my second, this is a review of Phonak Audeo hearing aids, I initially had some Widex top of the line and these are the top of the line Phonaks. I went with these on the recommendation of my prior audiologist, Manhattan Audio, I’m now in Florida, so obviously I used a different audiologist but I trusted Jake Marsden the audiologist that initially served me with my Widex that I wore for nearly 5 years, maybe more, and he recommended since I’m using an Android phone, that the Phonaks were the ones to go with. On the whole, they’re basically pretty invisible. Most of you probably know what a hearing aid looks like or at least I hope you do. I am very happy with the sound performance, my hearing loss is quite profound, even with the hearing aids I have difficulty hearing things without them, I am pretty much functionally deaf. In any case, as I said I’m very happy with these, they come with a charger case, they’re inductively charged, I went with the rechargeable as opposed to battery replacement after finding out that indeed if the internal rechargeable batteries fail they can be replaced as well by service. So, things I’m happy about, as I said the performance is really good, I can hear again, the volume has I think 12 stops, it has midpoint or neutral and then 5 above and 5 below. The signal tone changes with each when you hit each level, if you hit max it’s one tone, it lets you know in the middle, and again when you bottom out. I’m happy with that feature it lets me know where I am. I also experience quite a bit of tinnitus so having a tone letting me know where I am with the volume is quite helpful. The inductive charging case is great, battery life is great. I’m not very happy with the app. Pulling up the app to try to change profiles or whatever takes too much time, it tells me my hearing aids are connecting to my app, and then tells me this might take a while, which as you can imagine, if I’m trying to change modes while I’m doing something, we all spend too much time staring at our various devices as is, it’s not helpful, so I basically don’t use it, I just leave it in automatic. I’ve experimented with the app a little bit when I’ve had the time, again, I don’t like it, it doesn’t work for me, the Apple version may work much better, I’m an Android user so I’m stuck with what I have. I hope this is helpful. Advice for someone whose never worn hearing aids before. Your doctor or audiologist will tell you to wear them all the time. You must do this, your brain needs to get used to the change. If you dont, you’ll have unsatisfactory performance and most likely blame it on the hearing aid, when in fact it will be your fault. So if you buy hearing aids, spend a bunch of money on them, they’re a big investment for top of the line, at least they are for me, wear them. Anyway I hope this helps and have a good day.

Summary: Kevin reviews his Phonak Audeo Lumity 90R hearing aids, praising their lightweight design and custom fit. He notes the convenient all-day battery life and the seamless phone connection, but mentions the lack of noise-canceling and the need for a wired charging case as drawbacks. Despite these issues and the higher cost, Kevin recommends these hearing aids.

Hello there. My name is Jack. I am from North Texas and I've been using hearing aids for 15 years or so. I have a hearing loss in the upper ranges pretty bad. I don't hear the birds sing and those sounds such as that. I think I probably, ruined my ears with loud music when I was young. I have got tinnitus, and, as I said, I don't hear the high sounds very well. Really impedes my ability to understand, speech and television without some sort of aid. I found these hearing aids on zip hearing and I ended up purchasing the Phonak. They came in this nifty little case. You put them in there at night and charge them up, and next morning you are ready to go. They last all day. I chose them primarily because the ability for them to work with my Android phone, and this is far and away one of the features I like the best about these hearing aids. They sync with my phone so that I am when the phone rings, I just touch the button and answer the phone and I am able to speak with and understand whoever is calling very well. They also sync with any Bluetooth device. I have used them with my computer. Hook them up with a television, things like that. I really make it more enjoyable. They are very small. Let's see. I will give you and give you a shot here. Behind the ear I had them add this little thing helps. Helps it stay in my ear better. And I use these domes. That helps in my particular hearing loss, not everybody uses those. I had some Costco hearing aids. Well, I started out with Oticon. They never felt very comfortable. I didn't wear them a lot. I use those for probably about five years. Then I switched to Costco, mainly for the price. But they were low end. They had no extra features. They worked okay, but again, they weren't very comfortable, and I just didn't use them very much. So, I made the decision to go ahead and invest more money in a better hearing aid. And that's when I came across a zip hearing. And they helped me find an audiologist that was close and nearby. I purchased the hearing aids directly from them, but through the audiologist, I went to the audiologist and had the hearing test and, you know, all that kind of stuff. And then, they placed the order with zip hearing and zip hearing, shipped them to their office. I have just paid zip hearing direct. I get one year of, uh, follow up and anything I need, if I want to have them adjusted or, tweaked in any way, I just make an appointment with the audiologist and go, and they do it, and there's no charge after the years up. Then you just pay, typical, doctor visit fees, whatever. But they will clean them and adjust them as long as I own them. And I just say overall that I have been really pleased with not only the hearing aids, but also the service, through zip aid or zip hearing and my audiologist, wouldn't hesitate to use them again.

Hello, my name is Leah, and I am a 21 year old college student that is a hearing aid user. Now I have a newly discovered hearing loss. I was diagnosed with mild to moderate hearing loss at the age of 21. So just a couple of months ago, and this is, in fact, my first pair of hearing aids that I have gotten thanks to Zip hearing. Now, for me personally, what I struggle with is, something called sound discrimination. So, it's not that everything in my environment is soft and difficult to hear. It's more so that everything is really loud. Everything is kind of amplified and I can hear what's going on. I just have difficulty, discerning particular sounds or discriminating between, let's say, somebody who's talking to me and a really loud environment. So that's kind of what led me to get my hearing tested and eventually get a diagnosis for hearing loss. Now, the hearing aids that I have are the Phonak Audio Lumity L90 slim and so I can show you right here I have them I took them out for this. This is so this is the charging case that they come in. and if you open it up, you will see these are the two hearing aids. There is a left and a right port for each of these that the respective hearing aid goes in. And then on the back here is where you plug it in. So, I could take one of these out and we could take a look. Now again this is the slim model. So, this is a little bit more kind of slender than some of the other Phonaks that there are. But this is what it looks like. and again, this is the right piece, but the right and the left look practically identical. So, in terms of why I chose this hearing aid, the Phonak Audio Lumity’ s do specifically focus on sound discrimination, which is what I needed. again, I don't need a hearing aid that makes everything loud. Everything in my environment is loud enough. I just need something that would make it a little bit easier to focus on a particular sound and hear what people are saying. Also, another big reason that I chose this specific brand, and this specific pair is that they are Bluetooth compatible. For me, that was really important because I am a really big music fan. I listen to music constantly, whether I am taking a walk at the gym, at a library, studying, whatever it may be. I am always listening to music. So that was one of my primary concerns when getting a hearing aid was, I didn't want anything that was going to impede my ability to listen to music. So, it's really, really cool that these are Bluetooth compatible because they allow me to listen to music. Not only do they allow me to listen to music all the time, but they actually make it a lot easier for me to listen to music because, it means that I don't have to be constantly digging in my bag for headphones, putting them in, taking them out, doing whatever I do. These are already in my ear all of the time, and I can just go on my phone and start playing some music, which is really awesome. Something else that I really like about the L90 in particular is that these have tap control. So, this was really important for me because like I said, I am a huge music fan. But one of the primary places that I listen to music is at the gym. I am a personal trainer, so I am at the gym constantly. and when I'm at the gym, sometimes it can be really, really difficult if I have to listen to something that's going on outside of my music, whether that's another person that's speaking to me, an announcement, a coworker, whoever it is, or whatever that sound is, the tap control makes it really easy because I can just tap on one of my hearing aids and the music will switch off. And now for me, that is a lot easier than finding my phone, which is usually on the ground or in my bag or behind the desk. So, it's a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot easier for me to stop and be able to hear somebody talking without the music to continue to play. So that was a big thing with me, was the tap control. One other feature about the Phonak’s that I really did appreciate was automatic pairing. So, what this means is that when you go to charge your hearing aids, as soon as you put them into the charging case, they disconnect automatically from your phone. That also means it works in the inverse when you take them out and are ready to wear them again. They pair to your phone automatically, which is really great because I don't have to worry about pairing them all the time and kind of struggle with that. So that's really, really awesome because I don't even have to worry about it. I just take them out of the case in the morning. When I am ready to put them on, pop them in my ears and I am good to go. So again, some of the things that I really like about the Phonak Slim hearing aids is the Bluetooth feature. it's really, really awesome for me because it allows me to watch videos, listen to music, take calls, and do all of that kind of discreetly and without having to use any extra equipment, which is really awesome. and again, things like the tap control and the automatic pairing are really not only useful, but super convenient. The only complaint that I have about these hearing aids really, is that Bluetooth can be finicky sometimes. but, you know, that's kind of standard with any Bluetooth device. It's not going to work perfectly 100% of the time. Sometimes it's about the device's proximity to the hearing aids. sometimes it's about, you know, whether or not the Bluetooth on your phone is actually working. So again, and this has never been that big of a deal that I have had to go get them fixed or looked at or anything like that, it usually just takes a couple extra seconds, in order to pair. But that being said, overall, these are amazing, and they have really improved my ability to do things in my daily life and be comfortable and be able to hear other people and other sounds to the best of my ability.

Well hello, my name is Joel coming to you from the heartland of the country, I’m gonna tell you about my experience with hearing loss and now hearing aids. My hearing loss history is all rock and roll baby, I worked in radio for years and sitting there in a studio with headphones on for 5 hours a day, 6 days a week, plus concerts on top of that, all part of the job, and it took its toll on my hearing in pretty short order. Tinnitus probably showed up about 10 years ago and then I noticed that certain songs that I used to be able to hear cymbals and things like that, couldn’t hear that high frequency anymore, and then my wife got tired of me saying what, so I finally settled on hearing aids, I have the Phonak L90s, been quite happy with them, and they have really some nice features on them. Your able to adjust them quite handedly several ways through the app, here’s what they look like, that hands in back of the ear, here’s the other part that sticks on my head, and I’ve been like I said quite happy with them, best mix of sound and also the app has been quite nice, I use the app quite a bit, to me that’s a major consideration when you’re looking at hearing aids these days, is how well the app is gonna perform for you. What I liked about them is they sounded the best. I had tried out some others and I felt that these sounded the best and they come with classic Bluetooth, and I like that as well, the other pair that I tried didn’t have classic Bluetooth and they would disconnect and wouldn’t sound as good. So you know that’s why I like these the best, just because of those options. What I don’t like about these hearing aids, every now and then when I get a notification from the app, I get a audible hiss in the hearing aid, it’s just a shhhh, then it stops, we’ve tried to adjust it out and it’s still there. If I go into the app and when I know I’m in Bluetooth mode, and I select it, the option, and then go in and fiddle with the mic in bluetooth settings, I can make that hiss go away, but then when that program closes when that channel closes if you will, it comes back, so it’s not something that once you adjust it it sticks, you can adjust it out while that channel is active but uh it stays there for the rest of the time. Another thing that I wish about the app is that I wish these hearing aids could be voice controlled, it would be great to be able to say hey voice assistant, tell Phonak to mute my hearing aids, or hey voice assistant, tell Phonak to use the Focus program that I created so that way the microphones are all very tightly focused. So it just was nice to, would be nice to be able to have that option. There was another set of hearing aids that I tried that had integration with IFTT, if this then that, that if it was set up properly, if I broke the geofence, you know going for a walk, the house would change and lights would turn off or turn on depending on the day, so you could have some things automatically happen for you which I think for some people that as they age in life, having that ability to have things automatically happen based on where you are and what you’re doing I think would be a nice feature, but we can hope can’t we? Would you recommend these? Absolutely and matter of fact I have, I’ve got a buddy of mine that is losing his hearing as well as he ages and have suggested that he get these types of hearing aids from Phonak, and suggested he go to ZipHearing as well. Um did I have any experience with other hearing aids? I did, I tried a pair tail end of the year and I just didn’t care for them, they were uncomfortable, the app was iOS focused and I’m an Android person, so after having them for a couple of weeks I took them back. If I could offer one piece of advice when you’re looking for hearing aids, and that would be to test drive them. Listen to them. With this set of hearing aids where I was a little hesitant on which ones I wanted and the audiologist was kind enough to lay them out on the table and said let’s listen to all of them. And so the top brands I was able to try and I was amazed at how different some of them sounded from the others. There was one pair that took me all of 10 seconds to just hear them and go, these things are awful and so yeah, just have the opportunity to listen to them and I found that the Phonaks sound the best out of all of them. I appreciate you giving this a listen and I wish you the best as you look toward trying to solve your hearing problems.

Hi my name is Frank and I’m coming to you from Schaumburg, IL, just wanted to give you a quick review on the Phonak Lumity hearing aids that I have- love them, they’re really great, and I’ll show them to you real quick, they’re really nice, here’s a view of my ears you can hardly see them, so very low profile. But the hearing aids are such, so they’re really great, great to put in, easy to put in, no problems, just slip it over the ear, slip it into the canal and boom it’s there. One of the features that I really like about the hearing aids is they have the ability to connect with your phone so you can also control Siri by tapping on the ear piece, or your ear on the top of your ear and then you can also tap on the right hand side to answer phone calls, or disconnect from phone calls. Again two really cool features to have. My experience has been great, I did a lot of research, the various other brands and I found that this ones pretty much what I was looking for for features, the other big thing that I was looking for was the, to be able to control the hearing around when I’m in a group environment like in a restaurant and these work awesome, so highly recommended, I would recommend them to my friends and family, I’ve been with hearing aids for the last 4 years so I do have somewhat of an experience with the hearing aids, and again, the Lumity, the Phonak Lumity is a great choice for you. Okay, thanks so much and hope have success with your hearing aids, take care.

Summary: C.J. shares his experience with significant hearing loss and how it has impacted his life. He introduces the Phonak Audeo Lumity 90 RL hearing aids, explaining their features and how they've significantly improved his hearing and overall well-being. C.J. emphasizes the discreet design, advanced technology, and the positive changes these hearing aids have brought to his life.

About 5 years ago, I noticed that my hearing was beginning to fail me, and so I did some research online, I live in a major city and there were a lot of audiologist, I actually picked one of the most reputable, and the quote included a service plan, and I didn’t want that. So then I went online and I found Jeff, and his quote was just for the hearing aids, although he included a couple of checkups afterwards, and so I ordered them, he was very efficient, they came in about a day, and he and his team processed my insurance very quickly, very efficiently. So then about a few months ago I heard that hearing aids had really improved over the last year. And so I looked again and I found Phonak, and Phonak has a couple of benefits. It first of all has a charger that does not have to be plugged in, it can be plugged in, and you do have to recharge it, but you can take it like this, see the green lights, that means you could take it for a weekend without having to bother to take the wires. The Phonaks comes out like that, and it goes in like this, and it’s very very simple, now when you look at the ear, you really can’t see anything, people don’t even know that I’m wearing hearing aids, it has another benefit, Phonak is waterproof. So if I forget when I get in the shower, it doesn’t matter, thanks.

Well. Hi everyone. My name is Randy. Today I am going to give my review on the Phonak Lumity L90 hearing aid. I have had these now roughly going on three months, two and a half months. My past experience is I have been wearing hearing aids for five years. My first pair were the Phonak M90s. I purchased them, and they were great for me. I loved them, they accomplished everything that I needed to achieve and around year five they kind of started getting the weak and wearing out on me. So, I was going to start searching for another pair. Actually, seen an ad for a competitor's hearing aid, and I went through the process of speaking with them and getting knowledge on them, and they really up sold them to me that they were the latest innovation and just leading cutting edge on everything, and that I would be just well pleased with them. So, I took their 45-day trial offer and tried them, and I was not even to the 30 day mark and I was very disappointed the quality was not there. Many things that I was getting with my Phonaks was not available to me through this competitor. So, I sent them back and I went back to what I knew, trusted and trialed to the Phonak and found the pair of them and so here they are, my Phonak Lumity l90. What I love about these are, my first pair were not waterproof, and these are I can get these wet and I work out a lot, and I stay active and perspire and do some things. So, I think these will even be nicer for me, but I am going to go ahead and slip this one in. They are, again, just trusted and true for me. So, I am very happy with them. They are giving me everything I had with my original ones. The sound quality is excellent, and they helped me in the environments where I need to really be able to hear noisy environments, and I just love the way that these dial in my conversations that I am having. So yes, I went back to the Phonak, and these new ones just offer so much more that my even my old ones did not. And when I mentioned they were waterproof, but the charging case on the new ones now, what I love about this is you can actually hold a charge them green lights that just came on. I can without a cord, without being plugged in. I can use this charging device for up to three charges. So, I just went on a weekend trip where I was away, and I did not have to worry about taking the cord with me. I just had this thing fully charged, and when I set out for my adventure over the weekend, I was able to charge my devices overnight just by having this and that cord. Just it kind of complicates things. It gets really loose on the end when you keep carrying it around and so I love that aspect that I can take this charging device and also utilize it better without a fear of a malfunction or maybe damaging the device. So, it is another great thing I love about it. So, I am very happy, very pleased with my Phonaks. This is my second pair and just my experience with the competitor was that they do not add up and if you want good sound quality, I believe that Phonaks is the way to go. So hey, I hope my review helped you. I got these on through zip hearing on their website and you can just go there. It is a very simple process. They will reach out to you, they will walk you through the process. They will hook you up with someone to get some testing done and everything and it was a simple procedure that I just think is the new way to get things done. So, I hope this helps you and I hope you take advantage of it. Have a great day.

Hello my name is Peter and I finally decided to get hearing aids after years of asking people to repeat themselves or using closed captions on televisions when watching movies or sports. More than 20 years I’d been experiencing hearing loss and I never realized that I’d become really good at reading people's lips and facial expressions until the audiologist showed it to me. After 20 years my wife finally convinced me to have my hearing evaluated. The audiologists conducting the test was able to show me the extent of my hearing loss and how there was some ranges of sound that I’ll never be able to hear again. So I decided it was time for me to invest in hearing aids, and when she showed me the options of choices I was floored by the price because I was going to be paying out of pocket. So about a week of searching online for the best options I discovered ZipHearing, and they offered me the best options at price points I wanted to pay. So after sending an email and getting a response they set me up with an appointment at a local audiologist where I explained to him my situation, we redid the hearing test and he showed me some options. With my hearing loss I’m not able to wear an in-ear solution, so went and decided on the Phonak Audeo Lumity, here it is, it’s a really nice over the ear solution and I can’t even tell I’m wearing them when they’re on. They’re fully rechargeable, they last about 18 hours when they’re fully charged, they came with a charging station that charges them up in as little as 3 hours. The technology is quite amazing. It has some audio processing, so it does a really good job at isolating conversations, I have custom setups where I can set it up for conversations, watching a movie, watching television, out to a restaurant, and this also has bluetooth capability, I can answer my phone, I can listen to music, it keeps track of how many steps I have, it’s waterproof, so I don’t take them off when I’m exercising or walking in the rain. So after all this I would highly recommend ZipHearing because they were able to show me different options, provide me a local audiologist, they answered all my questions, provided me a great warranty. So don’t wait any longer, you won’t believe what you’ve been missing when you finally have a hearing solution that works. Good luck on your hearing solution search and again, ZipHearing is the way to go, thank you.

Hello my name is Mark and I’m speaking to you today from the colonial town of San Miguel de Allende which is also a Unesco World Heritage Site. Google it, it’s a wonderful place, and I think you would enjoy knowing about it. My wife got tired of me saying “what did you say” everytime she was asking me a question or talking to me. So in 2015 I got tested for hearing and as you might expect, yep, I had a hearing loss. So thinking again that maybe it had come back, I went again in 2016, but same results. After that I decided that hearing aids are what I needed, and I went to a audiologist that only sold one hearing aid, from one hearing aid company and that’s what I got. The problem is, I never liked them, and as a result because I didn’t like them, I didn’t wear them, more than I did wear them. I tried, I even committed to saying I gotta wear these everyday for two weeks if that’s what it’s gonna take to get used to them, I did that but to no avail. The sound quality just wasn’t there. I didn’t know what it was frankly, but I just didn’t care for them. Many people stream their telephone to their hearing aids. I tried that, but couldn’t do it, cuz of the sound quality was just so bad as far as I was concerned. So I got tested again in 2022 and you know, the same hearing loss was there, so I was going to the Cleveland Clinic for some other tests, and while there I went to their audiology department and said I don’t need a hearing test but I would like to test different hearing aids. And they put me in a booth with five different hearing aids, and they read me a sentence and then asked me to repeat the sentence back to them. By process of elimination we got down to two different hearing aids that I felt comfortable with and that I repeated the sentences back accurately to them. I left there and did a little more research on the internet, read some reviews, and what I finally decided that I liked was the Phonak Audeo hearing aid. During that research I also discovered ZipHearing and I figured out that I could buy these through Zip from any audiologist that I wanted to go to. Because I live in Mexico, we had to work this in such a fashion that I could go in and get tested, get fitted for hearing aids, and then be around for about a week so that I could come back and see if they needed to be tweaked or any changes made to them. So our son lives in Indianapolis and I talked to Zip and said I’d like to do this in Indianapolis, they found an audiologist there that dealt with the Audeo hearing aids and that’s how it all got put together. Today I seldom go without the hearing aids in. I use them constantly, the only issue that i had with them is that they kept coming unpaired from my telephone to their phone app that I had on my phone and this was kinda frustrating because i use the phone to change different modes, from restaurant, to normal, to TV, that type of thing, and you can do it on the hearing aid but it’s a tap system and I’m never really sure where I am, where on the telephone you can see, this is restaurant, this is normal, that type of thing. So I called Phonak’s technical support and they said “have you downloaded the app lately” and I said “well yes I did about a week and a half ago thinking that that’s why I was losing Bluetooth connectivity to it.” And he said “well frankly about four days ago we set out a new one.” So I did that, I downloaded their new app and it’s not lost connectivity since that happened so I’m a pretty happy camper with them. So my takeaway for all of you people that are considering hearing aids is to get the hearing test done, but then go to an audiologist that has more than one brand of hearing aids, and then get into a booth and have them test you with those different hearing aids in, it made all the difference in the world for me. This is what my Phonak Audeo looks like, it fits very nicely in my ear, in fact the other day I was saying something about hearing aids, and the person next to me said “I don’t see hearing aids, have you got hearing aids?” And then a closer look of course, he did see them, so, good luck, I think you’ll enjoy them, I fought it for a while and now I love them.

Hello, my name is Les and I’m from Vero Beach, Florida, and I recently got hearing aids, my first pair, ever, and the pair that I chose the hearing aid that I chose, or that my audiologist helped me choose is Phonak. And the reason I like them is they’re top of the line, they’re Bluetooth capable, I can answer my phone on them, I can listen to music, I can stream, I can listen to my TV and they’re rechargeable, so every night I just put them on my nightstand and they come with this great little charger. You can only put them in one way and it charges, you can also hook this up in your car with the USB cable they give you, or I plug it into the wall. They work great, I waited probably too long to get my hearing aids, probably should’ve bought them 7 years ago but I was in denial, but now that I have them I can’t tell you how wonderful it is to hear things, hear conversations, sit in a restaurant, go to the movies, listen to TV, it has really opened up my life. I used to run away from people that were important to me because I just got tired of saying what, huh, what. One thing I got with my hearing aids is this great little case from Phonak, very inexpensive I think it was 10 bucks, from Phonak, and if you’re at the beach or by the pool, or somewhere where you just don’t want to wear them for that period of time maybe for a little bit, this is a great little carrying case, slips right in my pocket and it’s easy to carry and it keeps them clean and keeps them neat. They’ve been, no maintenance for me at all, they’ve worked like a charm. I’m not sure what else I could really tell you that would encourage you to get hearing aids as soon as possible. They are a life changing item, I tell my friends who don’t have them, get them, spend the money, buy the good ones and you won’t regret it. I haven’t regretted it one day since. Interesting thing when you go to the audiologist, they put your hearing aid in the computer, they hook it up to a program and they can tell you how much time you’ve been wearing them. She said oh this great you’ve been wearing them 12 hrs a day. Really how do you know that? Well the computer can read it. She said 18% of the time you were in a car, 8% of the time you were in a very loud environment, I was totally impressed, totally blown away by their computer program, totally blown away by Phonak Audeo hearing aids. As I said before, get them, don’t wait.

Hello, my name is Jim, I am 76 years old, I live in New York City, and I’m a retired middle school principal. I retired in 2018 and for the past four and a half, five years I’ve been, and am, in excellent health. The only issue was, about a year ago, I began to notice how difficult it was to hear certain dialogue on television, as my wife and I would watch television in the evening, and inadvertently I would gently turn up the volume on the television to the point where I could literally hear what was being said. My wonderful wife helped me understand that the volume was getting louder and louder and louder to the point that it was really too loud. She also convinced me that maybe I should go and have my ears tested, I’d never done that before. I called my local hospital, made an appointment with the audiology department and went in and had my ears tested. The result of the hearing test was that the, I was suffering from moderate to severe hearing loss in both ears. I asked the audiologist at the time, ‘were the over the counter hearing aids that I hear so much about, on televisions, commercials, etc, were they something I should consider?’ And she was very clear, no, given the degree of my hearing loss, I need something more selective, more traditional, more conventional than the over the counter. I took her report, I made an appointment with an independent audiologist, shared with him the report, and he too confirmed that I would need a more traditional hearing aid. Their recommendation was the Phonak. I had done my own research and found that Phonak was a brand name, a good name, they produce a high quality hearing aid and it was one that I should consider. I decided to purchase the hearing aids and have worn them ever since. I’d like to show you what they look like, they are small, they are silver color to match my hair color and you can’t even tell that you’re wearing a hearing aid. They fit behind the ear, the small speaker fits into the ear and they give me much clearer hearing in every occasion. I have been most happy with the Phonak, I think they’re a great company, their warranty is wonderful, and their product has been really wonderful for me. I would suggest anyone getting a hearing aid or having hearing issues to first and foremost get your ears tested. Medicare will cover the cost of a hearing test and then once the results are in you can make a determination whether over the counter is good for you or whether you need a more conventional, more traditional hearing aid similar to the ones that I got. With the Lumity hearing aids that I have, they are rechargeable, I plug them in each evening, they fit into this charger, if you open the top of the charger, you’ll see there are a small space for each of the hearing aids to fit in, they recharge automatically overnight and I put them in when I wake up in the morning and we’re good to go. My recommendation for anyone considering hearing aids if you have a hearing loss is number 1 get tested, and number 2, speak to someone who can really guide you in the right direction. The hearing aids that I have have been wonderful, and now, when my wife and I watch television at night, she will often say to me, ‘please turn the television up, I’m having difficult hearing it’ which to me tells me that my hearing aids are fine, I can hear, and I do have to turn the volume up so that she can hear it more clearly. I hope this helps. Again this is Jim, in New York City, and I wish you good luck as your pursue getting your own hearing aids.

Hello, my name is Bill. I live in Vero Beach, Florida, and I would like to share with you my experience in getting hearing aids. First of all, it's no secret I needed hearing aids years ago. I just couldn't get myself to get them. I always had different reasons for not getting it. Mostly because people that I knew, my mother, my brother, my uncle, friends, and that had them, never seemed to wear them. And I always used that as justification that, well, if they are not going to wear them, I am not going to wear them. But then I heard about some of the features that the newer ones had, and I got quite interested in it. You know, specifically, I found out they are now, some of them are now rechargeable. They allow you to connect to your iPhone or basically any phone. They have the ability to connect Bluetooth, devices. Especially when I was interested in was a TV and, pretty much it got my interest and I started to look into them. And so I started with an audiologist here in Vero Beach, and I went through and verified my understanding of hearing aids and the features I just mentioned, and zeroed in on two of them, one being, one being Oticon, the other one being, Phonak, which is the ones that I ended up with eventually. And actually, I will show you the one. It's basically a typical over the ear type, hearing aid, just fits over the back of your top of your ear plugs in with that little looks like a tube, but it's actually a wire. And I tried them and liked them until I found out the cost. And at the audiologist, they told me that they start that particular brand Phonak's Lumity starts at 5000, and they go to 7500 for the pair. And that was enough for me. I didn't need to go any further. So, I came home, and I start searching the internet for that particular brand, and I found Zip hearing and something about 40, 50 or 60% off. I don't remember the numbers, but I did go through them and the pair that level that I wanted through the audiologist was the second from the best, and that was $6,500, I think it was. And when I got the price from, Zip hearing it was $3,800 and I was like, whoa, I just couldn't believe it. So, I called and talked to them about how this works, and they connected me with an audiologist just like the one I had seen, but not the one I had seen, and it was in Port Saint Lucie Wave audiologist. And I went there, and they basically paired me with everything. And I ended up with, with the Phonak’s hearing aids, something that I have been completely satisfied with for the last I guess it has been maybe three months now, maybe a little bit more. And no regrets.

Hi, my name is Jay, and I live in central New Jersey. I’m here to review the Phonak Audeo Lumity L90-R hearing aids. They’re dark grey in color, and I’m a very first time hearing aid user. The needs that I had were for better hearing in noisy environments like restaurants or bars, and I also according to my hearing audiogram show that I had a hearing loss at higher frequencies. Since getting the hearing aids, and I’ve had them for a couple of months now, I’ve been able to listen to the TV and the car radio at much lower volumes, and have thus received a lot fewer complaints from my family about how loud the TV was. It’s much easier for me to hear in noisy places and easier to distinguish consonants. What I really like about the aids is they’re rechargeable and the charge on these Phonaks lasts a full day. And even if it’s a really long day if I wake up very early and go to sleep very late, there’s still at least 30 percent charge on the left and the right aids. Wearing the hearing aids is very comfortable and you don’t even really notice they’re on most of the day, they do not get uncomfortable as the day wears on they just couldn’t be more comfortable. I really like the Bluetooth connectivity, I’m able to make handsfree phone calls without even needing to use the speakerphone, so you’re transmitting your voice and listening just through the hearing aids themselves, and the sound quality is very good from what other people tell me at the other end of the calls. I love streaming music through these and the aids themselves are small and really unobtrusive, most people don’t even notice that they’re there unless I point it out. Let me show you one, I’ll pull it out now just to show you. Here you go. Put it back in. And they’re a couple of minor details that I don’t particularly care for but not show stoppers. The Phonak app is a little bit clunky and showing its age I think, but I’ve heard that’s true of many brands, so I wouldn’t pick a hearing aid based solely on the quality of the app, there’s also an issue occasionally with Bluetooth, sometimes I can’t really get it connected to the computer or to the app and it causes me to need to reboot the hearing aids here and there, just shut it and restart it. In terms of advice for people that are looking for hearing aids, particularly for first timers like me, get your hearing tests and act on that by getting hearing aids if the prescription warrants it. I put it off for a few years and wish I’d done this sooner, I’m hearing all kinds of things that I’ve never heard for years. Big tip, I would call ZipHearing, I spoke with Jeff Hall the CEO there and real shout out to him for answering a ton of questions and steering me towards the hearing aids that I picked. He has excellent prices and very easy to talk to and very easy to reach. He referred me to a wonderful audiologist in East Windsor, New Jersey, they’re called Horizon Audiology and they’re a fantastic practice and very easy to work with as well. Lastly, this is just general advice no matter where you get the hearing aid, is to make sure the audiologist uses real ear measurement technique, when they’re fitting your hearing aids, you can find more about that online, there’s several sources of them, one great source of videos on hearing issues and hearing aids is Dr. Cliff Olson, so that’s it and I wish you luck in your pursuit of hearing aids.

Hi there, I am Martha W. In 2020, I experienced some mild to moderate hearing loss. Generally, I found that if I visited my ENT doctor, my ears had collected wax after a cleaning. They were good to go and no prescription was recommended at that time. In July of 2023, I again saw the same audiologist. I noticed I was having some difficulties understanding all the words of some individuals. I believed at that time they were speaking too fast for me to grasp all the words. Also, in situations where there was a lot of noise, I definitely did not get all the words. The test indicated a mild to moderate severe loss. At that time I was given a prescription for hearing aid and she said that at times inner ear damage occurs as we age. Soft sounds were hard for me to hear and even loud ones appeared muffled. She said these were the most common types of hearing loss. My search then began for a hearing aid. I went online, came across the zip hearing website. I read about Phonak's latest hearing aid, which was an audio lumity L90. There are many things I really liked about the hearing aid and I still do. The battery is built in and it is a rechargeable lithium ion battery. I like the tap control feature, which means that to answer a call a tap to the top of my ear to open and to end the call also. You can also use your phone if you would rather. I like that the call sync through my hearing aids. Music will also a plus when walking or working around the house in the yard. The aids also have a multifunction button or buttons that allow for volume control and phone calls, etcetera. I particularly enjoy having an app on my screen which can be set on my phone actually, which can be set for various situations such as calm speech and noisy areas. Speech where there's loud noise, speech in restaurants, television. I found it very easy to set it on automatic and rely on the AI or the artificial intelligence to select what I need. Amazingly, so far so good. I wanted to show you the hearing aid. I took one out just to have it for you to show. It's very tiny and very small and this is the charger that goes with it. So to charge it at night, this is where my right ear. You just drop it in the little slot and that's it. And the left one is still in my left ear. But then you would drop that in. I chose this hearing aid for all of the above features, and after I spoke with Jeff Hall, the CEO of Zip, hearing I was even more sold. He is gracious. He takes the time to direct me to a hearing specialist when I receive the hearing aid and there are many benefits built into this as the specialist helped me get used to various things with the hearing aid, he helped me find the correct speaker fitting I needed. I have very small ear canals and between Jeff and the specialist he referred me to, I was soon fitted with exactly what I needed. I like everything about it. I cannot believe that I was missing out on so many sounds. I have an orchestra of birds in my yard, whereas before I thought there were only a few. I very much appreciate being able to hear all the words when speaking with others in noisy areas. So a special thank you to Jeff Hall and to Frank the specialist he got me started with for this addition to my life. Thank you Zip hearing.

Hello my name is Joe, from Stuart Florida. I had some hearing loss and I decided to go with the Phonak Lumity Life. It’s a hearing aid that’s compatible to Bluetooth, I can use it easily with my phone, TV, stereo, computer, it fits pretty nice behind the ear, it’s a small hearing aid, very small, very easy to use, and the price was not bad. I mean it’s a good hearing aid that I would highly recommend, Phonak, this one is the Audeo Lumity and it’s also waterproof, but I don’t about swimming or taking a shower with a big investment like that, but this hearing aid I’m very happy with, I highly recommend a Phonak hearing aid for your use.

My name is Dan. I am a retired lawyer living in New York. And when an audiologist with a well known large studio of ENT doctors first said I needed a hearing aid, they recommended the Phonak Lumity LR 90 and was not that satisfied with the pricing deal because it included a fourth year service built in at a higher fee, which reminded me of a fourth year warranty on a new fridge. I went online, I found ZipHearing and Jeff Hall. I was a little skeptical doing this online, but I was very impressed with the video reviews, which is which seemed quite legitimate. The people all seemed genuinely happy with it, and that's one reason I am doing this video. I went to a new audiologist on a list provided by Jeff Hall, and I checked out that person as well as a few others recommended and quite legitimate. And I met the doctor and she was quite wonderful. And she also recommended the same hearing aid. And let me try it out right there and seemed very good. So I ordered it. And I have to tell you from day one, I have been not just happy, I have been delighted and at times ecstatic. The sound, of course, is increased. I hear better. But all the options built in with the automatic adjustment to my surroundings, I can have automatic noise cancellation, I can limit the surrounding sound, I can boost the treble. There are a lot of options offered that make it very useful, but I'm most thrilled with how good the Bluetooth is for my recorded music, Apple music and hearing other things through YouTube. It's far superior to my Airpods that I had and my jabra earbuds. I think maybe because it fits so closely into the ear, the sound is wonderful and they're basically invisible. You won't even know you have it on this one here fits here. You couldn't see it. And there it is, a little tiny little thing here you just put it right back up and the receiver goes in and you can see you can't even see I have it and I am just knocked out. I wear it all day from the beginning of the morning until late in the evening. And I found it wonderful with television. I can crank up the sound a bit without disturbing anyone in the family. So I am very, very pleased and I have to tell you, all the financial assurances and promises that Jeff Hall made proved true. I received my insurance rebate and the discount, and I am very, very pleased. And that's why I would recommend this to anyone looking at it at a need for a hearing aid. Thank you.

I am Mark Lisle. I purchased a Phonak Lumity hearing aid about, about a month ago and I had a previous situation before I bought a hearing aid through a major university hospital. And after three weeks it quit working. I went to the Lumity through pro hearing, and I have had absolutely nothing but perfect results through it. It's small. It fits right behind my ear. You can see it here. It's tiny. I have no problems with it. I wear it all day. But I had some problems early on with hearing I'd go to a wedding reception or something like that, and, you know, I would be hearing all this background noise. I wasn't able to hear the person like, you know, three feet in front of me talking to me. And my wife was giving me a little bit of grief about it. And I have got the thing now, and it works great. I couldn't be more pleased. My family are like, Dad, you can hear, you know, my grandkids are, you know, think it's I can play, I can do things. I can do things I wasn't able to do before because of the hearing aid, I haven't had any problems. I wear it all day long, you know, after I shower in the morning and take it off when I go to bed, clean it real well. And I have zero problems. It's tiny. The TV, I hear noises, which is funny. Like, I am walking outside, and I'll hear, like, a leaf blow by and I am like, what the heck? Just noises that I didn't normally ever hear before. And it's just been a fantastic thing for me. I really, you know, felt like, hey, I am not old enough to have a hearing aid. I am 69. I am definitely old enough. And I don't care what people think. And really most people don't notice it. We went to the Museum of Art the other day and I pushed on the little boxes and I was able to hear the sounds of the of telling about the art through my hearing aid. It's so cool. Everybody else was running around with their phones on real loud trying to do stuff and most people didn't even listen to it anyway. I think it's top notch. I am really, really thrilled with what I have got. Again, it's the Phonak Lumity. So thanks again.

Hello. I live in Chicago, I just turned 74. Um, it took me at least 2 or 3 years after people started telling me that I wasn't hearing them well to actually get effective hearing aids and um thanks to ZipHearing and a friend of mine who had dealt with them uh I finally did so. I’d had earlier testing at Northwestern Hospital and uh have moderate hearing loss especially in the sort of middle ranges. Um, uh and I tried um a product called Ear Go which is an in the ear hearing aid and um it didn’t work. Its difficult to um, for me, to get uh effective hearing aid assistance or hearing assistance um, without a competent Audiologist and you should definitely not try to do this yourself in my opinion. The hearing aids that I finally settled on were the same brand as a friend of mine had called Phonak. That’s the uh, and the particular model I ended up with was really the best ones they make the Phonak Audeo Lumity 90. Um, if you’re gonna do this you might as well get as good a hearing aid as you can and these have been excellent. Uh, I’m wearing them now and I’ll show you. I’ll take out, and I’m wearing them with my glasses which seems to work fine, they don’t have very bulky arms and that hasn’t been a problem. And I was also was looking for something in the ear sort of out of vanity but no one knows I’m wearing them so thats so this is a close up of it. Uh, I think you can see it pretty well there. This is I think one of the most popular colors. I chose the gray, silver because that’s what my hair is sort of gray silver. And you learn to put them in pretty easily. They’re effective, they automatically adjust. They have a useful restaurant setting which is one area where I particularly find them useful. Also a television setting, and all of that is on my Iphone and they link very well. I would recommend these and I have recommended these to friends and I’ve referred people to ZipHearing. I think they combine a good level of service, value and most importantly they refer you to an Audiologist. In my case, a person out, a doctor out in Oak Park which is about 30 minutes away from where I live in Chicago. So don’t cut corners. Hearing loss costs some, costs you in terms of your social connections, your um, presence in the world. Even your intellectual functioning, all of those things work better when you can hear what’s going on, I mean it makes sense. Uh, I’m looking in my list of what I’m supposed to tell you here. Um, I’ve told you about my experience with other hearing aids. I was also was in a Northwestern study which had the same type of hearing aid but they were testing whether they could be fitted without any human intervention using a program, a computer program and the answer was, for me, no. They um, they didn’t work quite well and the volume adjustments and other things were awkward and I finally turned them back in. The only fault really and maybe this is I don’t know how to handle it but when my phone rings, my iPhone rings, even when its shut off, so that it won’t ring out load, the ringing goes directly to my hearing aids. And um, so I can be sitting having a conversation and all of a sudden there’s ringing in my ears and thats not good. If I turn off bluetooth that goes away but I think I need to do a little more homework on how to manage that. Well, I hope that’s useful, I’ve been rambling on here. Um, Phonak Audeos have been wonderful for me. Thanks a lot, bye.