Sennheiser All-Day Clear Bluetooth Hearing Aids - OTC Hearing Aids with Bluetooth - Self-Fitting, Programmable Sound - FDA Cleared - Light Grey

I acquired this hearing aids as part of a campaign from #Reviewclub. I needed to buy these ones twice because Amazon sent me laundry product instead of the HAs due to a problem in their warehouse and still waiting for my refund (I will update my review if I don't receive my refund). As a prescription hearing aids user since 2019, My goal is to find a better option for much less price as second or emergency HAs, but surprisingly I can say I can use these ones as primary ones. PROS - Sound quality is exceptional. Including bluetooth audio streaming for phone calls and music from the phone (iphone user). Comparable with my ReSound same RIC style) and Starkey ITE I have. Obviously you won't have the bass as earbuds because the dome. Also the mic sound for phone calls and bluetooth distance range are really good. - Customizable by your own on 3 easy steps thru the app. The app plays a conversation streaming to the HAs and you select the clarity and volume level that fits you and that's it. - App usability, very simple and easy. You can adjust volume and Equalize bass, Mid and Treble. Also activate wind noise reduction. - Noise reduction, I didn't detect yet bad things here. They work very well doing it automatically. - Battery, surprisingly last more than my day entire day, sometimes I don't charge them at night and last till next mid day. CONS - You are not able to upload your own custom hearing profile from your audiologist. And the option for 250usd is not available because there is no audiologist in my area, which is odd not having one in Clarlotte NC area. - Domes. 3 domes size are delivered. The best sound is the bigger dome but I got occlusion effect (you hear your own voice and body internal sound louder) but you get the best sound in terms of clarity and bass. I needed to change to a smaller one to avoid occlusion effect but loosing the full benefit. - Sound Profiles, You can only select 2 profiles: Automatic and Live Music. And you can't create your own sound profiles in the app. - With the app you can't customize other advanced settings that are available for prescription HAs. Like AI or focused on any direction. - The charger need to be connected to the power. I have seen others with battery to recharge it giving you flexibility. - Sometimes if you are using your phone for music or videos, the phone automatically change the sound output to the HAs automatically. There is no way to configure this behavior, you need to shutdown the Bluetooth. Overall these OTCs are really good and at good price. I would ask for a little discounted price just because you can't upload your own hearing profile and need to pay for it going to an specific audiologist when you could do it by your own thru the app. Otherwise I can live with these for daily use and replace my prescription ones entirely.

My 74-year-old father-in-law has been dealing with hearing loss, and it's different in each ear. We checked with doctors, but the options they suggested were pretty expensive. I came across the All-Day Clear hearing aid and thought it was worth a try since we could set it up ourselves using just a smartphone—whether iPhone or Android. The setup was easy, and one of the best things is that the volume for each ear can be adjusted separately. My father-in-law has been able to tweak the settings himself depending on where he is—keeping it lower when he's at home and turning it up when he's in noisier places. He also likes that it's very discreet and not easily noticeable, which was important to him. Sound quality has been great so far. Voices come through clearly without too much background noise, making conversations much easier for him. He also finds it really comfortable and can wear it all day without any issues. The battery life is another big plus—it lasts all day without needing to be recharged constantly. The only thing I wish was different is the charging port—it still uses micro USB instead of USB-C. If it had a more modern charging option, I’d have no complaints at all. This has been a solid purchase, and I’d definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a good hearing aid without spending a fortune.

Update: EVEN WORSE, one year later, barely out of warranty and one hearing aid stopped working. Off, on, off, on. Called "Support", they said replace wax filter, earpiece and clean microphones. I already had but did it again just to please them. Nothing changed and remember, those would probably cause a less effective hearing aid, but not repeating entirely off and on. I found that with the receiver in my ear, if I fiddled (moved/touched) the part that goes behind the ear, that's when it would go off and on. If you deal a lot with cords, you know this symptom is likely a cord failing from flexing where it connects. These belong to my wife and she is very, very careful when handling them. On these hearing aids the "receiver" (the part in the ear) has a thin wire that plugs into the part that sits behind the ear. I called support to see whether Sennheiser could recommend some place for repairs. "No" was their answer. I asked if I could buy a new one to replace the bad one and the answer was "No, but you can buy a new pair and we'll give you $200 off!" Gee thanks! Will I have to do this every year? Also, I'm sure people do lose them occasionally. Then I checked a few other brands and found that some will sell you a single hearing aid to replace a lost or broken one. Also, searching internet I found that places that sell hearing aid parts do sell the part I need for $45, but I can't see how to unplug the old one and don't want to rip the wire off trying. When reading reviews, remember that buyers are probably reviewing an item that they haven't had for very long. Wait until they've had it for awhile, like when the warranty has just ended. Previous review (also negative): Ear tips must be replaced periodically, no matter what. Also, one could easily be lost when removing ear tip to install new wax filter every 3 to 4 months per instructions. I've been trying to get replacements (which are such an obvious necessity) for over 2 months. Their website says not in stock on all ear tips regardless of size. There is a "Notify" me when available button, but have heard nothing. Called the official "Support" number on the website, but they couldn't help, didn't know when or if they would have them, but offered me names and numbers of hearing aid centers that maybe could help, but maybe can't. So far I only get msg machines, without return calls. This is really bad for a $1,000 device of such importance!!! Sooner or later, we may find out that we wasted $1,000. I would think very hard before purchasing.

On day 4 with these hearing aids. Let me start that they have been superb thus far here's a short list of pros and cons: PRO Extremely comfortable for all day wear. Battery life has been excellent. Easily getting 16 hours a day with moderate streaming involved. Hearing aids are very effective at enhancing voices. The initial setup process helps you dial them in really well but I would add that you might want to overshoot your settings just a little on The initial setup process. Set these up just a little louder than you think you'll need and you'll be fine. I went thru the setup process a second time because I didn't think the volume was as loud as I needed. Literally set and forget. Unlike other hearing aids I have purchased I don't have to fiddle with these things constantly trying to tweak the sound. CONS: I wish the battery case contained a battery for ease of topping off during the day but, since the battery life has been so solid on these I guess I really don't need to and it's really not that big of a con. You'll want to balance the volume of the various sound profiles. Initially the Bluetooth volume was a little high so when my phone transitioned to Bluetooth background noise increased significantly. But once you get that dialed in there's really not much difference between the two profiles volume wise. Bluetooth connectivity for streaming has been just a little sketchy. This seems like it's prone to connecting and disconnecting when you first establish a stream. However it seems to work itself out after a couple of minutes. I don't know if it's a Bluetooth fault with earpieces or my phone. Fidelity is not at all what I expected from Sennheiser. Yes I know the RIC earpieces are probably very small balanced armature drivers and I shouldn't expect much from them. But have used used many Sennheiser products over the years and I just expected a little better sound. They're perfectly adequate I just expected a little more. And that's pretty much it for these. I am so glad I went ahead and spent the money on them..... you literally get what you pay for these days. That being said they sound better than my prescription hearing aids I got from Costco which I believe were phonak brands and considerably more expensive. They surpass the phonaks in ease of use and overall quality. Save up and buy them. You won't be disappointed. Update... It turns out the Bluetooth difficulties I encountered were the fault of my phone. I just purchased a new Samsung Galaxy s23 ultra and Bluetooth is flawless.

There is good and bad to these, but since you probably most need to know the downsides, I'll start there. 1. These seem to be based on very old tech from the Phonak Marvel range of hearing aids. That puts them two generations behind current hearing aids. (Phonak and Sennheiser hearing aids come from the same parent company.) So you are spending a hefty chunk of money for very old technology. 2. These perform very poorly in noisy environments, such as restaurants. That's especially true if they have music playing. The Sennheisers amplify everything, including the music coming from behind me and the guy talking loudly two tables over and a little behind me. 3. No front-focus or restaurant mode. The app is so limited and restricted that you only have two settings: automatic and music. There is no way to control the focus of the sound to only amplify what is in front of you. That is a common and very important feature in hearing aids and to see it missing here is baffling. The automatic mode does not work well enough to do without this. 4. Lots of hiss / floor noise, especially in quiet environments. I find I have to turn these down quite a bit to get the hiss to a tolerable level when at home with my spouse. A little hiss is not uncommon for hearing aids, but this seems much more than it should be. 5. Professional programming upsell is expensive and not refundable. They charge you $250 to have a professional program these for you and that is not refundable. It's a huge gamble to take if you find these insufficient right out of the box. 6. There are MUCH better values out there for only a little more. Most important is the Jabra Pro 20 and Philips 9040 (soon 9050) hearing aids from Costco. Those will run a few hundred more than the Sennheisers, but they are current tech (especially the Jabras), come with professional programming and fitting, a free hearing test, excellent support, cleaning and maintenance accessories, a great warranty, and more. And everything is included with the price of their hearing aids, and it is fully refundable with a pretty long trial / refund period. Even with the cost of 60 for a Costco membership, it's a much better value. 6. No options for longer receiver cables. The main part of the device sits behind the ear, with a thin cable that goes to the receiver inside your ear canal. The problem for me and a good number of other people is that the cable is sometimes too short and the hearing aid ends up sitting high on the ear, being very visible, or the cord won't sit flat against the face. That also makes it harder to wear glasses. Another reason to opt for a professional fitting at Costco or a similar place. However, there are some good things about these that set them apart: 1. Bluetooth classic connectivity. Most hearing aids still need an adapter to connect to Windows computers and other classic bluetooth devices. That's changing, but right now Phonak / Sennheiser is about the only brand of hearing aid that has strong bluetooth connectivity to Windows devices. They also work well with older Android devices. Note that this makes no difference to iPhone and M-processor Mac users, nor people with the newest Samsung devices, but for others it may matter. Adapters for other hearing aids to connect to Windows machines can be had for ~40 used up to 300 new. 2. Good battery life. I never ran these down below 30%, even wearing them for 17+ hours straight with a few hours of streaming in the mix. 3. Build quality seems solid. No complaints at all. The device appears to be made well, even if it is old tech. 4. Pretty natural sound. The sound quality is pretty good and the sound around me seems quite natural. The streaming quality isn't the best, but that is pretty much always true of hearing aids. For me, personally, these are just not worth the price when I can get something so much better from Costco. I am returning these and will get the Jabra Pro 20s instead. It will cost me 600 more, but consider it would cost 250 more to get the Sennheisers properly programmed and maybe get longer receiver cables, and even then I would be using older tech, I just can't justify keeping these. They were a real disappointment, especially given the strengths of the Sonova/Phonak brands and the premium Sennheiser name. In the end, these fail to live up to any of those brands' reputations and, ultimately, make me less likely to look at their hearing aids in the future.

I like these hearing aids. Originally I had $4500 Phonaks. They were OK, with Bluetooth volume controls, but no equalizer controls. When I lost one of them,I couldn't justify the replacement cost so I went with another OTC aid that was also OK, but no Bluetooth and after two of them failed and the manufacturer failed to replace them I decided to try the Sennheiser All Day Clear. These work great for me. The equalizer and sound profile capabilities are very good. My biggest problem with the others was not being able to hear well in church, which is a very large room with high ceilings. The Sennheisers give me very clear speech and music response and have very good battery life. I got 14 hours of use today with 45% charge still left. I contacted support by email with a question about the sound profile settings and got a timely response that answered my question. I highly recommend for OTC hearing aids.

These are my first aids and selected them after researching many reviews - best at soundly, the owner wears aids and I felt this was a good reviewer vs machine calculation of aids. I have previously tried the Audien Atom and found them to be very uncomfortable in my ears, terrible feedback and minimal controls of sound levels and never ble to wear so quickly returned them. The Sennheiser app is easy to install, maintain and adjust the treble/bass. I did purchase Phonak open dome to replace the closed dome and find the sound quality much better and these domes are so comfortable I can wear all day and forget have them on. I have mild/moderate loss and am willing to wear after reading how hearing loss contributes to dementia. Investing $800 vs 3K and up works for me knowing if/when I need a replacement paying 1K or so will be worth it as the technology and design will continue to improve. 4 stars instead of 5 based on charging case - very large and needs to be plugged in outlet. Charge length of use is lower than some other aids but has worked for me to wear all day - average of 12 - 14 hours with no problem.

Update, 8/2/24, 90 days after purchase: The right hearing aid has stopped charging properly. Yesterday, it was green when I removed it from the charger but it wouldn't turn on. I put it back in the charger - about 2 minutes after removing it - and it was red, indicating a dead battery. I left it in and it charged. I inserted it last night, it was blinking amber (normal). This morning, it was blinking green (normal). I started to use it for a Zoom meeting. About 10 minutes into the meeting the right hearing aid beeped indicating weak battery. When the meeting was over, I opened the app and the left hearing aid was at 99%, the right at 10%. I have written to Sennheiser support via email. So far no response. I will update this review as things change. For now, I've reduced my rating from 4 stars to 3. Original review (purchase date: 5/2/24): Setup was straight forward. Bluetooth connection to my phone (Android) and laptop (Windows 11) was not a problem. Button controls work but the timing seems longer than the manual states: it takes 6 seconds to turn the devices off while the manual says 4 seconds. Not a big deal. Sound amplification is clear, I can hear things I haven't heard since my last hearing aids died. So, what's missing? There are only 3 bands for adjustment: bass, mid and treble. 10 or more bands would enable the hearing aids to be better adjusted to individual needs. Increasing the treble helped for my high frequency issues and the midrange helped for consonants ("fifty" can be distinguished from "sixty"). Finer adjustments would be more helpful. There is no "automatic noise canceling" feature which would make the hearing aids more useful in noisy environments. I'll be using them on a long flight in a few weeks and I'm afraid they will pickup all the airplane noises. Setting the hearing aids to "automatic" and letting music play via Bluetooth should stop the noise amplification. There are no directional controls: you can't tell the hearing aids to ignore sound behind you and emphasize sound in front of you (helpful for TV or movies that don't have surround sound, or in a noisy restaurant). When compared to my previous hearing aids ($6400 and needed frequent repair/replacement during 3 year warranty, then became unusable after the warranty expired) these are a good alternative ($1000). Time will tell how long they will work. With any luck, the next replacement will be to upgrade to better features not replace unusable devices.