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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Analog Hearing Aids vs. Digital Hearing Aids

Analog Hearing Aids
My first hearing aids at the age 3 was analog hearing aids as Siemens. I only wear Siemens hearing aids for a long time because this is a brand that work with my hearing loss. The color was beige and big. It was heavy for my ears, but I had to wear them. When I  reach to my teenager years, I got a small beige hearing aids.

Digital Centra Hearing Aid
In 2006, it was time to start wearing digital hearing aid for my first time of my life being as a hearing impaired person. It was a challenge to try my first digital hearing aids. My audiologist decided to use Centra Siemens Hearing aids. I was happy that I can pick a different colors than using beige color again. I picked orange transparent color. I love this color and it is fun to see them. For my next hearing aids, I will pick a different color to have more fun.

Between Analog vs. Digital

Analog wasn't helping me with my speech and I was missing a lot what I was hearing out there. I work in loud noise area. I had to hear all the background noise and trying to understand what people were saying to me. It didn't have any programs that you can use that your audiologist can program from your hearing loss range.

Digital hearing aids were an amazing for me. I wish I started these digital hearing aids when it first came out, but I didn't. My audiologist put 3 programs in my hearing aids. I have a regular setting that hear everything, background reduction, and t-coil. The most important things to have is noise reduction for my job. It changes my life to hear all the clear sound, hear speech clear, and helping my communication with my friends, at work, and home. I know digital hearing aids will keep continue with advance for the future. I can't wait it will get even better for our hearing loss.

2 comments:

Digital Hearing Aids said...

Thanks for sharing the information regarding analog and digital hearing aids.Basically both hearing aids,whether digital or analog are designed to increase the loudness of sounds reaching the ear drum so that the hearing-impaired person can better understand speech.Digital hearing instruments take the continuous sound wave and break it up into very small,discrete bits of information.

Michelle Pasinati said...

Digital hearing aids include the latest technology used in this type of gadgets and they are a lot more advanced. Such devices will receive analog sound waves just like with analog models but they are converted into clear and crisp digital signals. These are basically patterns of low and high waves. Digital signals will be amplified or reduced automatically based on wearer personal needs.
digital hearing aids