Audien Atom

What is amazing about these hearing aids is how it works. It works extremely well. I never had hearing aids that would stay in my ear, not fall off my ear, and be comfortable all day. These are extreme quality, sophisticated digital hearing. Now I can hear myself type at the keyboard and people can no longer sneak up on me, can hear a cricket a mile away feels like. I can hear the freezer, refrigerator, and heater running all at the same time! OK, it works. I worried that the nylon wire might break but don't worry, if it did, you can still reach your hearing aid and take it out and don't worry about the dome getting stuck in your ear. It is on quite hard, cannot easily pull it off, for those worried about getting it stuck in your ear. Now, let's get to the reason why you want this. If you are like me and I had sonar hearing in the Navy one time, you are being plague with sounds and Wi-Fi causing problems everywhere you go. That is another subject. This Audien Hearing Aids helps with letting you hear people talk in a noisy environment and talking to a few people. I like that! Oh yeah, I might also say that music is AGAIN awesome. I have tinnitus and other hearing problems in my left ear. Maybe from putting a cue tip in my air one time, who knows? Hearing is delicate, so be careful with cue tips, as the explosion in your ear from touching it too hard feels like lightning struck. Anyway, my left ear has been diagnosed to have tinnitus. This Audien device allows my left ear to hear even better than my right ear. Now I will be honest here, there is no miracle cure for tinnitus or why it comes and goes, louder and less sometimes. I will tell you that wearing these you will almost forget about the tinnitus because all noises will be coming back to you and the background noise almost canceled out. As we age, this becomes more important. As my Neurologist would say, the brain has to adapt, and it will adapt. I see by the reviews that people either love these hearing aids or they don't. What I have to say about that is it takes a bit of getting used to. One is that there is something in your ear. The 2nd is setting the settings right. Do only a few ticks to the right of the volume when you set it first time. Don't go all the way up, you will blow your ear out. I do 3 ticks from the left going clockwise. I keep it there for my left ear. I love it. I worry about the cleaning going forward, but I think you can wear it for a while before it needs a good cleaning. They give replacement domes and clear instructions. I am not delicate with anything, so be sure that these are amazingly strong, but treat them with care. That is hard for me, but I figured it out. The final thing is I am not sure if this has noise-cancelling or not, but I will tell you it clarifies sounds and any ear problems with internal sounds coming from tinnitus or ear problems will be lessened to a great extent. Now, I am not a Doctor or Neurologist like I go to, but I will say that my Neurologist and primary care doctor, not to mention my Cardiologist all recommend it, as to be able to hear is less stressing. The key is to get used to the canal. It only goes in so far and the tip (dome) will not fall off. Lastly, the support is awesome. I got one that had a defect. It happens. Giovanni gave me excellent support and stayed at his work past 6:00PM and helped me for almost an hour. He could have gone home. I am on the East Coast and forgot about the time difference. He replaced the defect. I have never in my life seen support this good! I no longer need $2,000 to $8,000 hearing aids for my left ear. The USA government has now made it legal for OTC hearing products, and I wish they would do that with other stuff. The fact is these are comparable to expensive ones and the technology is awesome and superior to analog, in my opinion, of course. I wrote a more lengthy review as I am highly impressed with these hearing aids. I have had other digital hearing aids that were a disaster. These work and the support is there if you need it.

I have had these hearing aids for about 9 months now, and now I'm not the fan that I was after the first 1 or 2 months. Battery life is questionable, or worse. After 9 months the batteries are just not doing the job. One side works about 2 hours, and the other side is down to less than one hour of operation before it's necessary to recharge them. Notwithstanding that, I'll explain some of the other features, some of which would be great features if the batteries lasted longer. I usually watch my TV with the volume set at 20. When I put the Atom Hearing Aids in, I can turn the volume down to 10. This is huge. When I go to meetings where there is a speaker who isn't well amplified, and I have trouble hearing them, I simply slide in the Atom Hearing Aids, and I hear the speaker easily. I've found that I can insert the device in my ear and then turn it on, and there is no feedback wailing whatsoever. The feedback comes if I turn the device on before putting it in my ear. The Hearing Aids have little switches on them that are easy to flip to the "on" position with my fingernail. They're comfortable. I have large ears, and large ear canals, and I put the small wax guards on the Atom Hearing Aids, and then fit into my ear canal completely, with a lot of comfort. Noise cancellation is not very good. I hear background noise as loudly as I do the speaker I'm listening to, but I'm just so glad that I can hear the speaker that I'll put up with the background noise. Remember - Battery life is questionable. The Volume Control is great. I set it where I like it with the tiny screw driver that ships with the Hearing Aids, and I put the screw driver away for future use. I run my Atom Hearing Aids at about 45% volume. The Sound Quality is better than I expected. Sounds are a bit on the treble side, but I'm happy with that because I usually have trouble hearing treble frequencies. I still like these hearing aids, however, for an overall rating, I give them a C because of the miserable battery life. Otherwise, they would be a B. I have other hearing aids that are not as good as these. Even the $4500 hearing aids that I bought at a Hearing Specialist's Office are not as good as these Atom Hearing Aids, but the $4500 hearing aids have replaceable batteries, and these Atom hearing aids have rechargeable batteries that are shot after just 9 months.