Widex Moment

and I’m a retired physician, and I have had a hearing loss for about, oh, almost 12 years, and in those 12 years I’ve tried 5 different major manufacturers of hearing aids, and haven’t found one until now, that duplicates the high and low frequencies and the onset of sound, the crescendos, in music, popular music, classical music, it’s just a remarkable amount of authenticity and immediacy to listening to music, I mean, like I was 20 to 30 years younger than my 75 years of age. So I chose these hearing aids because I read about a long review, done by Michael Fremer, who for 30 or more years, has been a contributing editor to Stereophile magazine, he wore these hearing aids for 2 months, and highly recommended them, in the “pure sound” mode for listening to classical or any other kind of music, and I thought, this is what I really want to try and I was amazed at how good they do sound with music as well as speech recognition, all the nuances, the settings are amazing, so I really think there’s all sorts of good reasons to get the Widex Moment 440 hearing aids, I can’t think of anything as a drawback, and the one piece of advice I would give to anyone considering hearing aids is, find one that you enjoy, particularly in terms of hearing people clearly, and hearing music in a way that you haven’t heard for years. Mead Killion who is a dean of audiology and an expert of music replication, feels that the Widex alone is a hearing aid that really does an amazing job of replicating the immediacy and the power of music. So that’s the highest recommendation I think a person can offer. And here’s what they look like- that is the Widex Moment, the 440, great hearing aid, can’t say enough good things about it. Thank you so much, bye.

Hi my name is Suzanne. I’m 87 years old and I live in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and I wear hearing aids. I’ve had hearing aids for about 10 years but these are my new ones and they’re made by Widex. And uh, I couldn't be happier with them. Um, the ones I had before were Starkeys. They were good but they weren't programmable to the extent that these ones are which allows me to be in a public place and get rid of the extraneous noise around me or watch TV and hear voices really clearly, or listen to someone on my left, or of course listen to music. And a lot of musicians apparently choose Widex. I did a lot of research online before I chose these and I am really glad I did. This is the charging unit that the hearing aids go in and it sits by my bed at night and charges them completely by morning. Um, yeah my hearing has been deteriorating for about 10 years and it’s ironic that I come from a family on my mother’s side where both my grandparents were deaf and I never had any idea what it means to be unable to hear clearly. I thought it meant everything was just quieter but it doesn't mean that. It means you can hear certain things in words but not other things; I know I can hear the consonants but not the vowels. It just is a lot of effort to try and hear and you can't without hearing aids. But the advice I would give to people who are thinking about getting hearing aids is do a lot of research online; that is certainly what I did. I happen to love the Widex because they are really good for music and I love music as well as words. What is a little challenging for me is that the phone comes through my ears through the hearing aids and so if the phone rings I hear it in here, so if I am in the other room far from where the phone is then I have to come because it is ringing in my ear. I have to go and get the hearing aids and if I am talking to someone I have to remember to take the phone with me if I am going to be walking away from where the phone is. Let’s say I am in the kitchen and I am going to the sink to do something; if I leave the phone on my desk when I am talking, the person on the other end would say “I’m losing you, I’m losing you” so these are just things to get adjusted to. And the fact that it takes a couple of months for the brain to connect to the hearing, the changes in your hearing with the hearing aids. I couldn't be happier with these and I would recommend them to anyone.

Hello my name is Michael and I am reviewing the hearing aids that I got a couple months ago, they’re called Widex Moment 440, they’re the top of the line Widex behind the ear hearing aids and I like them a lot. After trying Oticons and Phonaks, both top of the line, I chose these for a couple of reasons, one is as a musician there’s a slight edge in sound quality for music that I appreciate, I’m pretty picky about that. Not only are the Widexs good sounding on their music setting but also my provider was able to dial in exactly the equalization that I wanted, which I asked for based on frequency curves and things that I know sound good to me, and so that was excellent. The other reason that I chose them is the phone app, the phone app is different and better to me than the apps for the other brands because you can design your own program with Widexs and in a very tailor made way and then save it so that if you have your phone with you you can choose something, I created one for noise suppression when there’s like a background fan sound or something like that going on, that’s a little bit better than the default, and there’s all kinds of different things you can create that way, I really appreciate that. The domes are also very comfortable for my ears and I’m gonna show you one of the hearing aids up close, and um, that little rubber dome, this is a small, there’s different sizes, this one has 2 vents which you can’t really see, but that works well for my particular hearing loss, um, which is not a severe hearing loss and it’s um quite a bit of mid range loss so that a closed dome wouldn’t work well for me but these work very well. One downside about the Widexs compared to some other brands is that they have one button and you get to choose, either that button is going to control which program, or it’s going to control the volume, but it won’t do both, you get to specify one or the other and that really bothers me because those are 2 things I want to control on demand whenever I need to. There is a workaround, I got this, this is called an RC-DEX that Widex makes, it’s a little remote control unit that you can carry on your keychain, in your pocket and it connects by Bluetooth to the hearing aids and you can control both of those 2 things. So that’s the workaround, of course you can also control it from your phone app but that’s not always convenient, sometimes you want something a little less obvious or less bulky to carry around. So that’s one downside, I saved a couple of thousand dollars by going through ZipHearing, that was amazing, and ZipHearing has contracted with a local provider here in Santa Cruz, Ca who has been great, I really appreciate that provider. As far as advice to people choosing hearing aids I would say don’t settle for something you’re not really happy with. Either go back to the provider to get it really dialed in, I think I’ve been back about 5 times to get the sound of these dialed in the way that I like and also the right domes and everything. So I would do that, or just choose a different model, as you can tell I’ve been through several different models and any provider should be happy to let you return and try different models. This is a big investment and it’s a really important thing for your day to day life so it’s worth really getting it to be what you want it to be. And the technology is there to make these work amazingly well, so once again I recommend the Widex Moment 440 and good luck in your search for the best hearing aid.

My name is Larry and I live in San Diego County, California. These are my first hearing aids, I decided that because of my wife’s continuously telling me I need hearing aids, I probably should try them. So I went to an audiologist and found this pretty good deal at ZipHearing and I’ve worked with ZipHearing and my audiologist to get me a pair of Widex 440s, which are my current brand, and they look like this, quite simple, easy to install, just put over your ear, push it in the ear, and do that. Don’t need a mirror or anything. I chose the Widex 440s because it was what my audiologist recommended after I tried ReSound and it didn’t work. We have a charger here, so I just put them in each night and they’re fine. I chose this hearing aid I said because the first one didn’t work and the audiologist recommended it. And what I like about it is the sound is good. I can hear my wife well, it’s a pretty clear and natural sound to me. My hearing loss was in the high frequency end which is pretty common for people my age. And so now what I like about it is I can hear my kids, my grand kids, my wife, and the TV better than I could before. So I’m happy with them. What I like about them is the streaming music is really good, I put on my Pandora, I Bluetooth it to my hearing aids, and it really sounds good, they’re essentially as good as a pair of Airpods, so I like them a lot, I listen to music a lot. What I don’t like about them is their application program for restaurants doesn’t seem to work very well, it doesn’t filter out the noise and the background noise in the restaurant, and the same is true I think when I’m using the focus forward TV sound you know just trying to get the TV when there’s other distractions it doesn’t have that forward focus like other hearing aids I’ve tried do. Yeah I’d recommend these hearing aids to people, especially if you listen to a lot of music. These are the Widex 440 RDs. I would recommend these to a friend. Compared to what I had before, I started few months ago with ReSound ONE 7s and I really liked them, except for the sounds always came in at a higher pitched tone, the high frequency stuff had like a lisp to it, so most of the sound was like kind of lispy, so I didn’t like that as much. What I did like with the ReSound ONE 7s is the restaurant focus, filtering out the background noise, so very good for that. Advice I’d give for someone getting hearing aids is if your first set doesn’t work, try different ones, don’t give up on them.

Hello my name is Jim and I’m here to tell you about my new hearing aids, the Widex Moment. I’ve worn hearing aids probably for over a dozen years, I have a history of hearing loss, particularly high frequencies, I have difficulty understanding people and separating words and particularly higher frequencies, higher pitched voices. And I previously owned some Widex but they were the old ones that required batteries, and I’m real happy with the Widex Moment that I got a couple months ago actually, and you can see they’re quite small and, when I wear them, they’re hardly visible at all, most people don’t even know that I’m wearing them. A couple things that I like about these hearing aids, #1, the digital adjustment that they make is just phenomenal. I was having some difficulty separating some sounds and they tweaked them and it made a huge difference and the adjustments they can make are endless. I really love the recharge, and no longer do I have to carry batteries with, try to find batteries, or have batteries die at the least opportune moment. Instead I have a charger here that I just keep plugged into a USB port next to my bed, every night I take off my hearing aids, just put them in there, and every morning when I get up they’re fully charged. I have never had the charge run out on me and I wear them most days all day long, from the time I get up until the time I go to bed. So, it’s really a nice feature. Another thing that I really like about these that I didn’t have before is the Bluetooth capability, where these automatically hook to my phone so if I have a phone call come in, or I’m listening to anything on the phone it automatically goes to my hearing aids and I really like that. The one thing I found that these don’t do very well with although, through Bluetooth, you can stream music from your phone for example, to hear that on your hearing aids, but they’re just not made for music and high quality sound like that so, if you ever compare them to AirPods or anything like that I think you’ll be disappointed, but face it that’s not what they’re designed for. I am a college professor and have had difficulty hearing students, particularly during the pandemic and students were wearing masks, I can’t see them, I can’t see what they’re saying, I can’t read their lips any longer, and so being able to get the newest technology of hearing aids has really helped me in the classroom, helped me understand students. It helps me a great deal in my relationship because I don’t have to ask my wife to repeat herself all the time. Anyway I strongly recommend the Widex Moment hearing aid, I think that it’s just, it’s amazing the quality of life when you’re able to hear, and you feel a part of things again, in many cases, when I kinda felt left out when I couldn’t hear things, or I couldn’t follow conversations, particularly in situations where there was a lot of background noise. One of the beauties of the Widex Moment is that you have the capability to filter out a lot of that background noise. Like I said the adjustments are endless, the ability to adjust them yourself and set up custom settings on your phone is wonderful, and certainly the professionals that I’ve had to assist me throughout the process with these hearing aids has just been wonderful, so I recommend them wholeheartedly and definitely think that if you’re having trouble hearing I think it’s definitely something that you should look into. Of course I would be remiss if I didn’t talk about ZipHearing and the fact that they made it very easy for me to get these hearing aids, they were very responsive and quite frankly was able to get these high quality Widex Moment hearing aids at a much lower cost than I could anywhere else, but they were responsive, I was able to get them very quickly, and the professional help I’ve had in fitting and adjusting them has been top notch. So definitely recommend them and like I said if you’re having difficulty hearing or are interested in upgrading your hearing aids I think this is definitely a wise choice. Hope this has helped.

Hello my name’s Lars, and I am going to do a review of the Widex Moment 440s that I’ve been using for about 2 months now. My history with hearing loss is that I had some infections in my ears and tubes when I was young and then I had some exposure to loud music, a lot, and started to get ringing in my ears about 25 years ago and have been living with it and then gradually going to the audiologist and the ENT etc started to notice a drop off in the higher frequencies and it got to the point where I wasn’t able to understand people at work, people would joke around about how bad my hearing was and I couldn’t understand my wife and daughter and I went through all this stuff with um, where I was like can you just speak up a little bit and maybe that would save us a few thousand dollars and they said, it wasn’t so great. Anyway so I got these, I first tried Eargos and they just wouldn’t do it, they just were not good enough, and then I got these Widex 440s so let me show them to you, there we go and it’s got one switch you’ll notice and they’re marked with a color blue for left, and red for right and so my review is going to be these are really the only really high end hearing aids I’ve used, I haven’t gotten Phonak or any of the competitors so I’m just going to be talking about what I like about these, not in comparison to another and I will say that one of the frustrating things about getting hearing aids is you can’t test them out like headphones you can say these are better than those, these are better than those, with hearing aids it’s like you get a recommendation, you get them and you say I guess this is what I’m dealing with with hearing aids. So what I’ll say about these, what I like about them is they do add a clarity to what I’m hearing it’s a lot better, I don’t say what as often, I still do, you know, it’s not perfect but especially with one-on-one with the family sitting around and talking to me, that’s great, watching TV is great, in a theater it’s frustrating with people behind me because you can’t I can, a cool thing about Widex’s app is you can get the, you can set it for a direction, but even so you have the microphones back there so anybody talking behind you is gonna be really loud and obviously that’s true with any hearing aid and I’m still getting used to being in a crowd the hearing aids would really help me discern people but it makes everything louder and it’s tough, it being in a crowd is very stressful. Widex has a cool little thing called ‘comfort’ where you, it’s a choice on the app where you press that and it sorta calms things down, it’s not as sharp and irritating, so I’m still getting used to all that, I had to, another frustrating thing about hearing aids is the audiologist has to program them for you and you can’t see what they’re looking at, or maybe some will show you, I think it’s they’re like oh this is too complicated you can’t look at it so with an equalizer, with a stereo I can say, oh I want a little more treble, oh I don’t like that, oh, down a little, oh up a little, with the audiologist you have to say everythings sharper, and they go oh sharper, okay, and then you say well the sound of a fork on a plate really bothers me, oh, okay, and then you get it back and it still bothering you and you’re not sure you have no visual to figure out what’s up and down so thats been kind of frustrating is having to convert these kind of complex things into words and not being able to play with it myself. With an equalizer you can play with it, sorta get it just right and understand what’s what, that’s a little frustrating, I’ll say um another one thing that I think, so I think these do a really good job, I’m guessing that they do about as good a job as Phonak, I’m not thinking of trying others cuz I think this is what hearing aids sound like. A couple of negatives, the charger here, it’s open on the top so when you take you can’t, I know some of them have a little cap, some of the brands have a little cap which is nice, I have to carry a separate little container and the containers nice so it’s just two pieces but you kinda think jeez just give me a cap and I’d be able to carry them around. Another thing and this is what’s really disappointing me here is I said to the audiologist when we were trying to get, decide on a brand, I said musics really important to me, I’m not an audiophile, I can’t just discern those tiny little things or not getting a high end system or whatever but I love listening to music and I want the music to be clear and I was excited that Widex really promotes itself as the best headphones you’ll ever have, start streaming music through your Bluetooth, oh you’re gonna be amazed, they say the best headphones you’ll ever have. Well when you stream music through these it sounds worse than a tiny little radio, transistor radio, I mean it sounds worse than the cheap free headphones you get on an airplane it’s just, it’s about what you would expect for a tiny little speaker this size but to, it’s marketed as the best headphones you’ll ever have, I mean they’re so far below that and I actually thought something was wrong, you can compare them to just the little Apple earbuds that come, not even the Air Buds, the ear buds that come with the old Iphones, so much clearer, and it just it’s very tinny and just really bad sound and I called up Widex customer support and they said yeah that’s they’re not gonna be as good as your Apple earphones, and I thought well jeez you know that’s not really how they’re marketed so that was disappointing. I would say, I don’t even use these for phones, for taking phone calls, I sometimes use them for podcasts and even still it’s a little irritating because you can’t hear the clarity of the voices, it’s very tinny and staticy. Just like a bad phone connection kind of. It’s not a bad connection but just cheap you know like there’s nothing wrong it’s just a very very sounds very very cheap so for again things that cost several thousand dollars and market themselves as having this aspect, it was very disappointing. I’m sure it’ll get better with time but that’s where it is now. And so I think summing up, I think the Widex is a good choice for hearing aids, I mean it certainly feels like what I paid for. Some of the marketing as I said is not really, is disappointing, but oh another thing I should, but I think it’s certainly worthwhile of going to, I wouldn't be disappointed, I don’t think that going with another brand would get me much better is I guess what I’m saying. One other thing I should point out is they sent me, so you get this box you know it’s a very nice package and they sent me several, you know all the paper that comes with it. I was missing the instruction manual and what’s weird is they have this which is called user instruction, you go oh there’s my instruction manual, all this is is just the hardware like how to put it in your ear, how to charge the thing, it doesn’t tell you like how to switch the program, how to use the app, etc, and I thought gosh they don’t give you anything, it turns out they left that out, they left out the manual I had to get it online, and once I got it online I go oh now I understand this whole thing. But it seems to me that see these are user instructions ear sets so it’s really like you know just these things like how to put them behind your ear like obvious stuff and missing the actual user manual so I would say like if you get these and you have the same problem I do where you’re like nobodys really telling me what this button is for and how I get it louder and what I should think about in troubleshooting, make sure you got the right manual. So there’s my review of the Widex, um hope it was helpful, and that’s it, bye bye.

Hello my name is Jay, I’m a retired disability specialist, I live in Ocean City, Maryland, and I’m here to to talk about my choice of hearing aids, which in this instance is Widex Moment 110 model. My hearing loss history is basically a gradual degradation, and moderate degradation of hearing that I became aware of when I had difficulty listening to my wife speak to me, in a relatively normal tone of voice, and I would kind of like catch it mid way, missing like the subject of the sentence and I would had to ask her about that, and then she would kinda raise her voice to make it more clear for me to understand and sometimes I would get that adrenaline rush in the back of my neck, and not very pleasant, so I agreed to get my hearing tested and you know, if it ended up that I really could use some help in this area that I would have no problem getting a hearing aid system. And that’s what happened you know I got tested and I found out that I had a moderate degree of degradation especially in my left ear, especially regarding the treble or high end range of the sonic spectrum. So, I had seen a promotional video by the guitarist from the band Toto and he was raving about these aids. I’m a guitarist and I still play and I love listening to music, and you know he was speaking to me, I kinda understand what he was saying, especially when he was talking about dynamic range and things like that. So you know after I found out that because of my age and because I’m a Medicare recipient that you know, most of this would be paid for, this is a pretty expensive system, you know I decided to go right off the bat with this system that the guy from Toto recommended. This is what they look like, they’re, you know you can’t see them when they’re in. This is the charger, this is the right hearing aid, this is kind of a charger you can take with you, this is like the travel case in case you don’t want to wear them, instruction manuals, cleaning system, this is the guide to the Widex Moment application which is really neat because you have some set patterns for different hearing situations like for music or for speaking some one you know vis-a-vis, face to face, and a third selection if you’re in a noisy room with like boomy acoustics or something like that, it kinda like mutes the background noise, and then you have customizable settings that you can make up your own setting, and you can adjust the treble, you can adjust the mid range, you can adjust the base, it’s very nice, it’s very cool, you just download the app, it’s free, get it, hook it up, Bluetooth, Bluetooth is included, so it’s a very modern system. What I like about it the most is you know I can hear when I put this in, so it does what they advertise it to. What I don’t like about it is that it’s expensive, there’s occasional feedback, but you are able to adjust the frequencies and the volume to taste, so that’s just something the more I live with them the better I get at it. So would I recommend this hearing aid to a friend? Yes especially if you’re over age 65 and have Medicare, but I have to give you the caveat that I have no experience with any other brand so this is just me telling you about my experience with the Widex system. And this model is their least prohibitively expensive model, but it’s sufficient to the requirements of the moderate loss of hearing that I experience. The one piece of advice I would give to someone that’s considering purchasing hearing aids is that you gotta be certain you’re not better off not hearing what’s going on the world, I mean there’s a lot of noise and you know, I’m hearing it everyday and you get to hear it really really crystal clear. Of course you can always remove them from your ears, and that’s an option. I had an uncle that never wore his hearing aids because he said there’s nothing worth hearing, except that when I went to talk to him, he put them in! Alright so that’s my little, you know, testimonial about the Widex Moment hearing aid system, happy hearing, have a great life, take care.

Hi, my name is Mike, I’m 61 years old and I spent 41 years in the volunteer fire service, and also 31 years in an industrial complex, and when it got time to retire, I noticed that my hearing wasn’t as good as it used to be, so I decided to get my hearing checked by a local audiologist. When I went in I was not really surprised to find that I had some hearing loss and that I needed some help. So they recommended that I purchase Widex brand hearing aids and told me that they were high quality and that I would really have a good experience with it, and they were right on the money on that. I’ve been very pleased with them, my quality of life has really improved since I started wearing them. I was having trouble understanding my grandkids, I could hear them talk, but I couldn’t tell what the words were, and I missed out on a lot of conversations because of that. Once I got the hearing aids my life improved quite a bit, and I’ve had no trouble with them at all, in fact this morning I was coming back from making an ambulance call and when I took my respirator off, my one hearing aid got flipped off and I didn’t even know it. I got home and found out that I had a hearing aid missing, and one of the features of the Widex brand is there’s a locator to search for your hearing aid. I used that with my cell phone app and was able to locate the hearing aid at the fire station. These things are so comfortable that a lot of times you don’t even realize you have them on. I highly recommend them and thank you for your time.

Hello, my name is Pat and I live in Colorado. I have had tinnitus and a mild hearing loss for about 15 years. It's progressively gotten worse, mainly in my right ear or the last 2 or 3 years and the audiologist, when I saw him about a year and a half ago, told me that I now qualify for hearing aids because it had progressed to a moderate hearing loss in my right ear. I trialed a couple of different brands. First, he had me trial a Phonak. He thought that would be appropriate for my mild to moderate hearing loss and tinnitus mitigation. The hearing was great. The tinnitus program didn't really work for me because it didn't really mask the tinnitus. It was just a one program of a swishing sound. And they hurt. They hurt my ears a lot. So I asked if I could try the widex and he had me trial the widex moment 330, which were phenomenal. As soon as we programmed them and then I changed it to the pure program. It was a clear, crisp, clean. They call it a natural sound. I haven't heard sounds like that in my environment. As long as I can remember in my adult life. It is amazing. I also really had fun playing around with the tinnitus programs. They have a Zen program that has a lot of different settings for relaxation, and it really does mask the tinnitus. There's these fractal tones, these little ding ding ding noises, along with natural water sounds and waves. And it's a wonderful program. It helps my tinnitus tremendously. I don't even notice I have it. Anyway, I trialed the Widex for about three days the best that I could. It also hurt my ears. It was, it didn't sit right on over my glasses. I tried several different ways of wearing my glasses. It hurt inside my ear. It hurt to put them in, to take them out. It hurt when I touch my ear. I just couldn't do it. So I trialed them for three days, took them back and said, I just don't think I can wear hearing aids. They hurt and I can't wear something that's going to hurt. I know I won't wear them every day. I'm not going to pay that kind of money for them, he said we could do some custom molded, in the canal kind, and those were quite spendy, so I just wasn't ready to purchase hearing aids at that time. I wanted to do a little more research and do my due diligence before I decided to pay that kind of money for hearing aids. Fast forward, I did a lot of research online. I found Zip hearing, and I spoke with a gentleman named Grant who was very, very helpful. He said we had three audiologists in our area, and one of them, um, he referred me to. He said Grant, he was confident would be able to help me figure out what would work best for me. He could help customize them the best he could and if the widex didn't work, he would recommend something that would work and he was really confident that that, Sean could help me. So I went to him and he is now my audiologist. He's phenomenal. He helped me decide upon the Widex moment 330 smart ric. And it's got a different design. As you can see, it's an L shape. It sits up higher on the ear. He made a longer wire for me, gave me a pediatric cone. The other cones were really, really big, and they hurt my ear. There's also a little tail that sticks off the end of most of the new hearing aids, and it's to help sit right inside here. After trialing them for. I tried for three weeks just the best I could, and they still hurt. He realized when I went back in that it was the tail piece where it sat right here, where it connected. That was irritating inside of my ear. So he took that off and voila! They're wonderful. I have absolutely no problems with my hearing aids. I don't even know they're in. I can hear so well. I hear clarity like I haven't heard. Like I said, in my adult life, it's amazing. What I like about the Widex specifically is it's the Bluetooth connectivity. There's several different programs, lots of different listening programs and sound settings that I can use, and I love playing around with them. I can hear my phone calls in my ear. I can hear my, messages on my computer, I can watch TV, I can use my navigation system in my car. It all goes right into my ear, I love it. Also, I wanted to tell you about the battery the charger. This is the charger plugged in. My hearing aids have 37 hours of use. The battery is good for 37 hours and without being plugged in, this wonderful little charger, gives me five more days of battery charging. So here's where the batteries go. Right in here. You can see there's it'll show you there's left and right. Right is has a little red mark on the back. Left has a blue mark and this is wonderful. So, what I specifically like about these smart ric brand is the L shape sits up higher in my on my ear. Doesn't interfere with my glasses. It provides you with better directionality so that you can hear just what you're trying to hear. You don't hear all the distracting noises around you. It also helps to tone down the wind noises. It helps like I don't have a screeching, scratching noise when I touch them. I can fix my hair. It doesn't bother them at all. They are actually quite amazing. I love them. So that said, try zip hearing. They are wonderful. I am nothing but satisfied and I would give them a ten star if I could. They provided me with the best audiologist who would allow me to come back and see him as many times as I need to. I have a free hat, a free 45 day trial period, and if these hearing aids didn't work, Sean was going to try to help me figure out some other type of hearing aid, and I would have another free 45 day period to trial those hearing aids until we could get it right. Zip hearing also provided me with a 35% discount over what I was originally quoted at the previous audiologist. And my husband and I both got hearing aids at the same time, so we even got a discount, an extra discount for that. So that said, the only thing that I can think of, if anybody is trying to decide what hearing aids to use, go to zip hearing. They will help you find the right audiologist. They'll help you find the right brand. And if they don't work at first, if they hurt your ears. I heard that was a problem with a lot of people. If they hurt your ears, go back and see your audiologist and he will help you figure out what you need to do, like I did. I almost gave up on them. I had to go back and see Sean 3 or 4 times, but once we got it figured out, they're wonderful. I absolutely love my new Widex moment 330 smart Ric, thank you very much for listening.

Hi, my name is Ray and I have been noticing for the last 2 or 3 years that it has been getting harder and harder to hear people and act and make out exactly what they are saying and TV was getting really hard to tell sometimes what they were saying, and it was getting very annoying having to go back and try and relisten and listen again and so after the first of the year, I decided it was time to go get my hearing tested. Hadn't had my hearing tested since I was back in grammar school a long time ago, so up until this time I hadn't really had too much of a problem, but it was just starting to get annoying. So I went to my doctor and got a referral, got my hearing tested, found out that I did have issues and that I would benefit quite a bit from getting some hearing aids. So I started looking around, trying to figure out what was the best and what I could afford. And after searching and searching, I happened to stumble on the, you know, the website ziphearing.com and I started looking at what was there. I started doing some research as far as what models they had on there. I ultimately decided that the Widex moment was what was going to, I felt worked best for me. I coordinated with Ziphear.com and had arrangements and was sent to an audiologist who did an additional exam on me, checked my hearing again, and then actually did all of the fitting and everything as far as the programming. I have been extremely happy with my hearing aids. The widex moment, they are very comfortable. They're very small. They fit into my ear very easily. I really don't even notice that they're there some of the time. I've got to remember to take them out. I go to get in the shower and I forget I've got my hearing aid in. It's that comfortable. It is so easy to put in and use. I have a little charging unit that I put them in at the end of the night or the end of the day, and they simply drop into the unit. And if you can see the charger, they are very easy to use. They have been working great for me. They hold plenty of charge throughout the whole day. They are Bluetooth enabled, so I can actually, stream anything I would like to through their music or or anything else. And nobody else can hear it. It's just playing in my ear. There is an awesome app that they make that allows me to do even some finer programming on my hearing aids. So if I have got a situation that doesn't fit one of their pre-programmed, situations, it's very easy for me to go in and set up my own or make adjustments on it. So all in all, I think it's a great product. I think I adapted really well to it. Like I said, I wear it pretty much all the time. I don't have any issues with it whatsoever. I would highly recommend, the widex moment. Thanks.

Hi guys. My name is Dave. I'm calling in from beautiful Aurora, Colorado. Early summer day. I rarely do these kind of things, but I've been so pleased, with my hearing aids, with the product and the service that I've received. So let me walk you through my experience, my hearing loss history, probably over the last 7 or 8 years, it's gotten more and more profound. I also have tinnitus and I have high frequency hearing loss, which, of course, is my wife's voice and other female voices. And so, for my wife as well as to help myself, I decided to finally bite the bullet and get hearing aids. I played the drums. I have played for 50 years, and I still am an active musician, so that's probably not helped. I try to wear hearing protection when I play. But one of the things that actually helps the relief from tinnitus is when I'm playing music, because it takes my mind off of it. The brand of hearing aid I chose is Widex. Sorry, I don't know the model number, but they're really great. I also have this charger, which can actually be unplugged for, like, up to five days, and you can still charge. So it's the latest kind of charging technology, I think. Why did I choose Widex? I heard they were good for tinnitus. I heard they were good for musicians and then I found the Zip hearing website and lo and behold, there it was. I really have to say I've been impressed with Zip hearing I really liked the business model. A little bit of a leap of faith to do business over the internet. But I worked with Grant, and he's very responsive. He referred me to a local audiologist in the area, and that relationship has been awesome as well. Of course, I also like the trial period. It may not be as long as, you know, some others, like Costco. But there was never any doubt they've worked really well. So blew right through the trial period. And I have been very happy. I really haven't had any trouble. I did have a little soreness in my left ear and had to play around with the dome a little bit, but that's sort of a physical problem I had to deal with. And I think I've straightened it out and again, the relationship with your local audiologist will help with that. As far as my experience, I over the last several years, I first tried a much more expensive hearing aid from a different audiologist. Honestly, maybe I didn't know what I was doing, but that just didn't work out. I felt like they were overcharging and under-serviced kind of, the relationship wasn't as good, that sort of thing. So, anyway, I stopped going to them. The next one I tried was Costco. Of course, they're the biggest, I guess hearing aid, source in the country now, their service is great and great people and all of that. However, you know, the products that they sell are a little bit reduced, and I just don't think their technology is as good, right. And so you can save some money there. But I wasn't I was never satisfied with my hearing and always having to go back and get them serviced and get help and cleaning. Just the model just never seemed to stay clean. So anyway, long story short, tried both of those over the years and then found Zip hearing Widex and my local audiologist. I've been wearing them now for, I don't know, three months, four months and yeah, I find myself reaching for them in the morning, to put them in. So that's a great sign, right? I actually want to wear them now. So, yeah, I really would recommend trying out the Zip hearing, website and their business model worked really well for me. Hope this helps.

Hi, I'm Gail, I'm 81 years old and I live in Northern California. My first experience with hearing aids was about six years ago when I bought my first pair of Resounds. I discovered I was having hearing loss. When I couldn't hear, my granddaughter couldn't understand her little tiny voice. And also, I was taking bridge lessons in a class and I was having difficulty hearing the teacher and understanding she was saying something funny and everybody else was laughing and I missed the whole thing. So I started researching and started looking online, and I found a discount hearing aid seller and I bought the Resounds, and I was happy with them for a few years, even though, they didn't, the charge didn't last through the whole day. If I got up at eight and you put the hearing aids in, by dinner time they were dead. So that was not, I was not happy with that. So, but then the last couple of years they were difficult to keep connected. So I got very frustrated with that and decided that it was time to buy a new pair of hearing aids. And I think six years is about the life expectancy of hearing aids anyway. So I started shopping again and I found Zip Hearing online. They had a whole bunch of different brands. I had been recommended to buy Oticon. They said that this was, you know, the best brand and the most best clarity, and they were using AI and I thought that was great. So I would get that. And I was quoted around 7300 for those, and I was determined not to pay 7300, even though she said, oh, you won't. It was a new version. And she said, you won't find these anywhere else because they're brand new. So taking that as a challenge, I went home and I immediately found Zip Hearing and contacted them and their price for the same pair of hearing aids that I had been quoted 7300 for, their price was $4,595 or something like that. So I made an appointment to see the local audiologist through Zip hearing. And he recommended another brand. He said he was happy to order resound for me. And not resound, but oticon and but he would strongly recommend Widex because in all of his years he had fewer problems and fewer complaints with Widex. So I accepted his recommendation. I'm happy I did. They've been great. I've been wearing them for about two months, and they are, the clarity is great. And they charge really fast and they hold the charge. I think they hold the charge for like 24 hours and they're really small. They're really easy to wear and they have different colors. I chose this color because it's the closest to my gray hair, and they're really easy to wear. And, the clarity is really good. I was really delighted with Zip Hearing because they were very responsive to my calls. I think I spoke with Grant, and I think I spoke with Jeff and they were very lovely gentlemen. And the audiologist was really very nice. And when I first got the hearing aids, they were quite loud. My hearing loss is not really severe, it's very moderate. So they came when they were new, they were really loud. So I went back a couple times for adjustments and the last adjustment was just perfect. So it's adjusted down to, you know, where I'm comfortable. But if I'm in a situation where I need more volume than they adjust in the back of each hearing aid, one adjusts one side adjusts higher and the other side adjusts lower. And then there's also the app. That is really interesting because it's got a lot of adjustments, a lot of options. I don't need them all, but they're great. It's great that they're there. And so it's really lovely to be able to adjust them on my phone any time and actually this pair, as opposed to resound this, I can turn them off completely. Where resound you couldn't turn them off, you could turn them down, but you could never turn them off. These turn off completely. Which I think is really handy because sometimes things are really too loud. So I've been really happy with the hearing aids. They work well. They charge well. They last a long time. They really help me hear in groups in crowds and individually and when I'm watching television. I'm happy with the service that I got. The audiologist here is great. I made an appointment online and it was for, I don't know, a week or a week and a half in the future. And he called me and said, I have an opening today or I can see you tomorrow. So he was right on top of it and offered me the option of coming in earlier. So that was great and I've been really happy with Zip hearing. They were very responsive to my calls, so all around it was a very, very pleasant experience and I'm really happy with the service that I got. I'm happy with the Zip hearing and I'm happy with the hearing aids. I don't have any complaints, so I strongly recommend Zip hearing because I think the discount was around 2700 from the retail price that you would get through an outside audiologist. So I think that it's an excellent option.