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Both of the hearing tests I had included both ears separately. Thankfully I have no tinnitus or major differences between although I grew up on a farm with lots of heavy machinery and no hearing protection. Rain means change in atmospheric pressure (and against your ear drums), so yes it's reasonable to assume it could affect your tinnitus. I'd avoid living in the mountains or going skydiving. I'm doubtful that any hearing aid companies have much in the line of sophisticated tone controls. They seem to focus on hearing conversations and frequencies between 1,000 and 8,000 Hz. My last test only gave readings at 1,000, 1,500, 2,000, 4,000, and 8,000 Hz - very disappointing. Again not helpful for conversation or crowds - my complaints. And not useful for other everyday needs. But have some annoying side effects (fluttering in the slightest wind, have to remove to shower/haircuts, somewhat interfere with my glasses, and of course the $2,000 USD out of pocket).
For the most part the tone controls are in the programs. My aids can have about a half dozen. There are "tone controls" that are on the phone app. I've had the tinnitus program, which I described as random wind chimes. I didn't find it effective, but I've lived with tinnitus so long I've learned to ignore it.
Yes, I have separate tone controls for each- through the phone app.
I am trying to do most of my 'homework' before I actually go in for my hearing test and the possible fitment or choice of HA's this week.I got thinking last night,which is what I usually do,(wife always says I think too much) and that was about separate tone controls available for each ear for people who have different 'problems' in each ear.
Most work better with an Apple phones. I used to have a Samsung, but the interphase didn't have the sophistication of the Apple.
The ears are measured and "corrected" independently of one another so no need for this type of control.The ones I have had different settings programmable by the audiologist. I said "had" because ultimately I didn't use them and they got disabled.One setting was for a "restaurant" setting with lots of noise all around.Another was "music" which made slight changes to the processing. The HA "knows" what it's hearing and "knows" it's supposed to enhance speech. The music setting made it less likely to consider the music to be background noise. Still made music less lovable.
Your success will be proportional to your HA providers commitment to achieving your goals. Most brands of hearing aids at the top of their model range can get excellent results.... if your provider will spend the time with you to repeatedly tweak based on your evaluation and input. I built a rubrik for evaluation and made sure that my terminology was something that she understood. Example: Sound stage wasn't in her vocabulary, but when we got the idea across, it was something that she understood and could correct for. Detail, tonality, dynamic range, precision of instrument placement... these were all things she understood. But it didn't occur to one of the reps that I expected to hear each drum of a drumset in it's proper space. He needed a little education. Those that have had poor results either had a different variety of hearing loss that I have, or simply didn't get the most out of their units ( depending on the time spent by the audiologist). This is an expensive investment. Make sure you get the most out of it, and don't settle for mediocre. These units were designed for speech, but they can be made to be musical.
I just know mine aren't very good.Do you need just a touch up (in-ear, probably) or heavy-duty aid (behind the ear).I found this article helpful:https://www.analogplanet.com/content/two-months-widex%E2%80%99s-moment-440-mric-r-d-hearing-aids-part-2
I tried that Widex unit. They were the company whose rep came to my house to get an idea of what I was talking about when discussing sound stage, instrument placement, etc. Before hearing a good system, he had no idea. He was so proud of his "music" setting and had me pick out a piece on his phone that could be streamed directly into my ear. This was the setting that I said sounded like a transistor radio from the late 50's. It was completely unacceptable, yet they thought they'd really come up with something. However, with enough adjustments, we got it sounding quite good. I thought it had the best tonality of the bunch, but lacked low bass... something I couldn't live with. Oh yeah, he was stunned when I took out the diffusers I had placed in front of the TV, and put the coffee table back in front of the couch... sound stage collapsed and detail disappeared. He simply had no idea... nor do any of their sound engineers that are so focused on speech.
I bought a new iPhone 11 a few months back. Ran about $500. If you must have the latest model get ready to pay, but they still have stock of last years models.
