Technology
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Level
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Real-world benefit
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| Made for iPhone (MFi) |
Yes |
Streams audio directly from selected iPhones, iPods, and iPads into your hearing aids. |
| Rechargeable |
Yes |
Is a rechargeable hearing aid with either a built-in lithium-ion battery or ZPower rechargeable option meaning no disposable batteries are required.
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| Acuity Lifescape Analyser |
7 (2) |
The hearing aids automatically analyse and adapt in multiple listening environments to provide the best possible listening experience.
The maximum number of listening environments the hearing aid can analyse and adapt in is 7 with 4 levels of adjustments in each. |
| Channels |
20 |
The hearing aid ‘splits’ and ‘separates’ incoming sound into its different frequencies before processing each frequency channel independently based on the listening environment, listening needs and hearing loss of the individual. This helps provide a higher resolution and more natural sound quality.
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| Gain Handles |
20 |
This relates to the number of frequency channels that can be adjusted to personalise the hearing aid to your specific hearing loss, listening needs and ear acoustics to help provide a more natural and crisper sound quality.
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| Programmes |
5 |
For a more personalised fitting the hearing aids can be adjusted and specifically programmed for different listening environments, such as music, outdoors, party, restaurant etc.
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| Acquity Speech Optimisation |
Advanced |
The hearing aids help deliver more natural and crisper high-frequency sounds for improved speech clarity and comfort. |
| Acuity Voice |
Moderate |
Reduces unwanted background noise and enhances speech to reduce listening effort and improve speech understanding. |
| Acuity Directionality (immersion) |
Premium |
Restores the ear’s natural ability to detect and amplify speech from certain directions to enhance your ability to follow and understand conversations in different listening environments.
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| Acuity Directionality (directional) |
Advanced |
The hearing aid only picks up sounds directly in front which may be useful when listening to a single speaker sat opposite you in a noisy place.
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| Acuity Directionality (dynamic) |
Advanced |
Detects sounds from all around when in a quiet place before switching focus to hear somebody in front of you when in a noisy place.
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| Acuity Directionality (adaptive) |
Advanced |
Detects sounds from all around when in a quiet place before quickly switching focus towards speech even if to the side or behind you when in a noisy place.
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| E2E Directionality |
Advanced |
The two hearing aids work together to help the brain focus in on the person you want to hear in a noisy situation, whilst maintaining an overall awareness of your environment so you can switch focus to hear somebody else if required. |
| Directional Plus |
Yes |
When the hearing aid switches focus towards speech in a noisy environment the noise reduction is automatically increased to the maximum possible level. This helps to further reduce unwanted background noise to achieve better speech understanding and listening comfort.
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| Speech ID |
Yes |
Identifies and boosts speech wherever it is detected in the environment including from behind you.
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| Wind Adaption |
Moderate |
Dampens wind noise when outdoors to reduce listening effort and improve speech understanding. |
| E2E Wind Adaption |
Moderate |
The two hearing aids work together to more accurately and effectively dampen wind noise when outdoors to reduce listening effort and improve speech understanding.
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| Machine Noise Adaption |
Moderate |
Reduces unwanted background noise in noisy situations to improve listening comfort. |
| E2E Machine Noise Adaption |
Moderate |
The two hearing aids work together to more accurately and effectively reduce unwanted background noise in noisy situations to improve listening comfort.
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| Acuity Quiet |
Moderate |
Reduces unwanted and annoying low and moderate level background noises such as internal hearing aid circuit nose, air cons, fans, the soft tapping of keyboards and computer mouse etc. without effecting speech understanding. |
| Music Enhancement |
Moderate |
The hearing aids automatically switch to a dedicated music setting to improve the music listening experience. |
| E2E Music Enhancement |
Moderate |
The two hearing aids combine to more accurately detect music in the environment before both automatically switch to a dedicated music setting to improve the music listening experience.
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| Extended Bandwidth |
Yes |
A boost of high-frequency sound up to 10 kHz to provide more crispness and brightness to music. |
| Speech Shift |
Yes |
Copies high frequency sounds that cannot be heard by a listener due to their hearing loss into a lower frequency so they can be heard. |
| Synchronized User Adjustments |
Yes |
Volume adjustments and program changes made on one hearing aid are automatically transferred to the opposite hearing aid.
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| VC Self Learning |
Yes |
Volume adjustments made in specific listening environments are learned by the hearing aid and automatically applied.
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| Auto Telephone Response |
Yes |
When the telephone is held beside the ear the hearing aid automatically switches to a dedicated phone programme to help you hear better.
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| SoundPoint |
Yes |
The tone and level of sound can be adjusted and compared by the listener themselves during the fitting stage to help personalise the sound quality.
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| Multiflex Tinnitus Technology |
Yes |
Helps the brain become distracted from tinnitus by instead listening to a selection of masking noise sounds.
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| SoundPoint Tinnitus |
Yes |
The tone and level of tinnitus masking noise can be adjusted and compared by the listener themselves during the fitting stage to help find the best masking noise to mask their tinnitus.
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| Auto Experience Manager |
Yes |
The hearing aid can gradually increase in volume automatically over a specified period of time to help listeners gradually adapt and acclimatise to wearing them.
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| T2 On Demand |
Yes |
Basic adjustments to the hearing aid can be made directly from any touchtone telephone.
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| WhistleFree Feedback Cancellation |
Yes |
Eliminates unwanted whistling from the hearing aid.
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