Happy New Year. I really appreciate the information and experience you share.

This is a really great video, Cliff! 😁👍

I'm very satisfied with my Costco KS-10's, the testing was as thorough as any clinic I've been to and my hearing is improved significantly. I hadn't realized how much I was missing until I got them, I was missing high frequency consonants which makes hearing difficult but with them the sound is crystal clear.

I got mine at Costco. Highly recommend them they did everything Dr. Cliff said. Testing, fitting and Follow up and services are top notch.

Thanks for the video I got lucky where I go to has 5 different hearing aids and it took me 2 months wearing mines on and off after 2 months I wear them all day except when the battery runs low then I charge them one at a time

I’m wearing Oticon Bi-Cros OPN HA’s now for one year. Prior to that, wore Starkey for 10 years. I have genetic hearing loss, not typical age-related, which is harder to treat. The switch was necessary, as hearing on the left is gone😢. I have a love/hate relationship with my hearing aids. If you need a bi-cros system, I would recommend it, however, I would look at Phonak next time, just for comparison.

Dr. Cliff, Thank you so much again for your insightful video! I am from San Francisco and I am a hearing aid user… have been since 2003! My plan allows hearing aid exams every three years and the hearing aids I have now are from 2021 which would make my next fitting in 2024! I chose to get rechargeable hearing aids , Oticon More 1,without enough analysis on my part and I am not at all happy! I truly like Oticon brand except for the ones that are rechargeable! The battery life is ONLY six hours and that is not conducive for the life style I am in right now! I hate waiting for the batteries to recharge… would have been much easier just putting fresh batteries and no waiting! Any remedy, or suggestions? Thanks again for all you do and it is pretty obvious to me that you are truly passionate about what you do… informing people like me! And giving people the gift of hearing!

I love my hearing aids. They were properly fit by a Dr. Cliff approved audiologist in Chestnut Hill, MA - Dr. Adrienne Ulrich. She's fantastic and does a proper fitting with all the latest techniques and takes the time to do them properly. The only thing I dislike about them is that the iPhone BT connectivity often only connects to one ear or the other but not both. If I turn the iPhone off and on again, it re-connects properly to both, but sustained connection to both is unreliable. I understand this is an issue with iPhone updates and not my Signia C&G 7AX's.

I love my hearing aids BUT I hate the recharge unit. I never know if it will work. I put the hearing aids into the unit each night. Some nights both display a yellow light, which seems to mean they are locked in properly and will recharge. Other nights for no reason, the right hearing aid just sits there with no light on. I remove it and install it again with the same result. Very annoying. In the morning, a red light shows that it is NOT recharged. I plan to bring the recharge unit in to the next appointment.

This is right on. I chose one of the most feature full hearing aids available in 2020. However they aren’t fitted properly and the audiologist I am going to has very poor services. Getting an appointment takes several weeks and they are not transparent about what they are doing. I was told they performed a real ear measure, however the process was very different than what Dr Cliff explains in the video. Lucky enough to find a provider in HearingUp network close to where I live, so I am going to switch. I am currently fitted with the Phonak Audeo Paradise P60, which has outstanding Blutooth and one of the best mobile app which gives you great amount of customizations.

I’ve been wearing hearing aids since I was 7 and am now 76. I have had bad experiences with poor audiologists until I met the best one ever 20 years ago. I don’t mind wearing them now as I’m profoundly deaf but nay be looking at cochlear implant’.

I hate them because they are too loud. Every sound hurt. I will never wear them. Silence is golden.

Background noise is too loud & audiologist says it cannot be lowered. Is this true??

I was born deaf and been wearing an analog hearing aid all my life. I have yet to find the right digital hearing aid for me and I believe that it's because I am not being fitted properly. I'm 69 and it's a daily struggle wearing this old aid and trust factor in finding a new one.

Can you review unitron blu hearing aids?

Could you provide a link to your video detailing best practices?

I have worn hearing aids for the last 6 months.. I started out with the lyric.. I absolutely LOVED the sound quality for the 3 months that I was lucky to have them, but unfortunately wasn't a candidate in the end. I then tried IIC hearing aids and hated the sound quality.. I now have the phonak audeo lumity and loved how they sounded until I started having a feedback issue, then my audiologist applied the feedback cancelation and they now sound awful when they get tinny with a lot of tones,(like an oven going off or carder beeping, etc..) or when I'm singing/playing piano, even in the music setting and I can't stand it... What my audiologist did was trying to reduce the high frequency gain which hasn't helped.. He asked me to try experimenting with changing setting on my own to see if there's anything that I liked and monitor it this week before going back.. No luck with that.. Any ideas of what to do?? HELP!!!!!

My hearing aids work fine and they do help me hear. I did have a hearing care pro who followed best practices and I still hate them because I hate the feeling of the plastic stuffed into my ears and I get chronic ear infections from them, especially in the summer. The behind the ear was worse as I have tiny ears that are close to my head and the hearing aid pushed them out and caused major skin irritation behind the ears.

I don't hate mine - things sound better with them - but they don't do the thing I want them to do most: improve clarity. My left ear suffered a SSHL one year ago. I did regain volume with steroid treatment but it returned with distortion. There has been some organic improvement and of course I'm hoping for more. But I suspect that distortion is beyond the realm of hearing aids and therefore am looking forward to the results from the latest FX-322 trial.

I've had eye issues and hearing issues and glasses/contacts/lasik restore vision - hearing aids provide bizarre amplification that randomly decides to focus on useless things [dishes, outdoor traffic, conversation going on behind you!?] - they just don't replicate normal hearing and that's why they suck. This bloody focus on streaming and being rechargeable - focus on providing good hearing first!

I don't know how anyone could love my new hearing aids. My ears feel occluded and there is feedback on the lowest volume. It is difficult or impossible to connect to the My Phonak app. Additionally, the Bluetooth connection has dropouts. Whenever there is a notification from my phone, whatever I am watching pauses, then starts, then pauses over and over until I give up and turn off the video completely. I hate my hearing aids.

All I really lack is that my HA simply wrecks music. A heavy tremolo means I have to remove them every time I sit at the piano.

Please, where can I find your list of good providers. i am on Humana HMO, apparently for this coming year medicare pays something as I cannot afford high priced ones on my measly SS check. Thank you so much!

I have a Phonak (third brand used) and they are great but my ears still itch inside, is there a fix?

My ear canal is super small. Nothing fits

I would add a third reason: you're not wearing your HAs enough. So many new users think they can just wear their HAs to restaurants or other high-challenge situations. That's never going to be enough to compensate for the adverse effects of cortical plasticity. Users need to get into the habit of all-day wear, even when they're at home by themselves.

I really hate mine hearing aids. 😏 they’re Starkey and their Thrive app not work properly with my Iphone, My audiologist contacted Starkey, but doesn’t work, it’s the worse investment I made it. So, can I use them without technology or bluetooth?🤔 I don’t know yet if I get a pair of AirPods maybe can help me and with tinnitus as well. Dr. I saw an amplifier Bellman & Neckloop pair with hearing aids.

I have never been able to put anything in my ears, like on airlines, that would stay in there. Hubby has those buds that connect to his IWatch for music, he tried them in my ears to see if the tinnitus would disappear….well after two seconds they fell out….

I wear headsets all day long for Teams/Zoom meetings and calls. No way to use a hearing aid everyday. Hopefully a hearing aid with a good mic like plantronics voyager 5200 has, will come out one day.

I detest my hearing aids. They make my ears itch inside something horrible and it never gets better. I wear mine about once every few months when I am going to be in a social situation where I absolutely need them. The first year I tried so hard to get used to them and I just couldn’t. Too much itching.

What is your opinion about the VA and do they follow "best practices" ,or are they just satisfying the need ?

Except for commercial concerns, I have not come across anyone who is an expert in hearing. We want information about eyeglass type bone conduction devices

Mine suck.

I hate the feedback. Have sent them back twice

They don't seem to know what real ear measurements is in south Wales! Uk

hearing aids don't need treatment sir please find a solution

Mine suck. Fitted by audiologist.

Is there any that I can go swimming with?

get the old analog hearing aids with the controls in a compartment. digital hearing aids edit the sound to make music and the sound quality horrible. analog has no editing programs. it's just a microphone , T coil and speaker. that's all you need in a hearing aid. no bullshit with those analogs. got new digital hearing aids 3000$! they are udderly crap compared to the 600$ analog hearing aid. if you need to hook it up to there computer to adjust them, they are crap. good hearing aids have the controls in a secret compartment on top of the hearing aid you need a eyeglasses repair kit screwdriver to pry open and adjust the controls. also analog hearing aids have a on off swich so you don't have to take the battery out.

too much new tech in hearing aids and digital sucks,,some people dont want to deal with the headache of all this new tech problem here problem there dont need or use it,,,here's a novel idea..bring back the trouble free analog hearing aids of the 90's and before...dont try and fix what aint broken!...hearing aid industry is shooting itself in the foot never seen anything like it.

WTF on video WHY?

I mostly like my current hearing aids, but finding something you like is a journey, plus the technology keeps improving; prefer batteries and wear aids from 6:30am to midnight every day. Started with a small BTE Widex with size 10 battery...good for music, bad for feedback, no bluetooth, battery needed changed every 2-3 days. Next Siemens one size 13 battery, bluetooth with phone and tv streaming via hockey puck...bluetooth was nice but hockeypuck was annoying plus one more thing to charge. Next Phonak Audeo Marvel with direct bluetooth streaming with phone and theoretically link to 2 devices BUT practical use only one device (tried linking to android phone then adding ipad which nuked phone settings requiring trip to audiologist). Currently have Phonak Paradise P90 with size 312 battery, plus tv streamer plus Roger-ON...better clarity than prior aids (not perfect but better), bluetooth can switch easily between phone, ipad, mini-ipad, tv, RogerON, good battery life. RogerON works well, though gives a kind of metallic bouncing off hard surfaces sound to voices which (very different from normal use, but at least can hear those quiet speakers in conference rooms). Would like to see features from rechargeables included with battery aids (like directionality, etc), better clarity is always good, better resistance to sweat and drizzle would help.