Tinnitus, ringing in the ears, is a symptom of every known ear pathology and several others that are not even directly ear related.  The only way to prevent ringing in ears is to avoid the entire minefield of causes and pathologies. Without a doubt, the biggest of the tinnitus causes in today’s society is loud noise.  Any sound, be it rock music, classical music or loud engines and equipment; will create hearing loss, ear infections, ear problems, and very likely tinnitus, if it is loud enough for long enough.  OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has a hearing test that says if you are exposed to over 85 dB for more than eight hours in a twenty four hour period, you are in danger of doing repairable damage to your hearing. 85 dB is about the level of sound coming from a kitchen blender at six feet, when it is crushing ice.  If the sound level is higher than most people can shout, it is clearly over 85 dB.  The amount of exposure allowed is cut in half for every five dB of increase. So sound equal to an average lawn mower (about 105 dB) would be damaging at 30 minutes in a 24-hour period.  Remember that these measures are cumulative, so the exposure from blending the ice must be added to the lawn mower exposure and to the music you listened to last night, when totaling your allowable exposure. If you are wearing headphones to listen to music and someone can hear and understand the music standing beside you, you are likely doing damage and will cause hearing problems. Most experts will argue that the OHSA regs are too lax.  European standards are much more strict in the allowable amount of time you can be exposed to levels higher than 85 dB.

There are thousands of tinnitus treatments or tinnitus remedies that may temporarily reduce the tinnitus symptoms; we have no known cures for tinnitus. Without a doubt, the most broad spectrum and most common relief or treatment for tinnitus comes from wearing a hearing aid that compensates for the hearing loss and ear ringing that caused the inner ear problems.  Most people, who are properly fit with hearing aids, report that they receive partial to total relief from the buzzing in ears while wearing the hearing aid.  Many of those people continue to get a short period of relief even when they remove the hearing aid to go to bed. Just as there are many causes of tinnitus, there are many claimed “tinnitus cures”.  It depends on the circumstances of your particular case; as to what, if anything, will relieve some of your ringing ear.  There are several things that you can do in your diet and lifestyle that can possibly help relieve some of the symptoms of tinnitus.  Avoid damage to your ears in the first place. Wear a good hearing aid, if you have a correctable loss.  Avoid caffeine (in excess), alcohol (in excess), aspirin (in excess), tobacco products, and stress. Most anything that causes small highs and lows in your blood pressure, will exacerbate your tinnitus.

There is no single hearing aid that is better than another, when it comes to providing tinnitus relief. That is first of all assuming that your tinnitus therapy can be relieved by wearing a hearing aid.  There are some tests that your professional can do that will give you some idea of whether there is a chance that the tinnitus can be masked out by the use of a hearing device.  If your professional is not familiar with these tests, perhaps you may wish to seek the assistance of another professional for tinnitus treatments or for alternative tinnitus research.

The key factors in the make up of a hearing aid that make it more likely to provide some relief for the tinnitus would be the range of frequency response, “head room” in the device and power of the device at the frequencies that are most able to be helped.  Your hearing is spread across a wide range of frequencies.  If the device only covers a small number of them it is less likely to have power and range to address many tinnitus cases. This is especially important in the higher frequencies.  Many less capable hearing aids only have controllable frequency response to 3K or so.  Decent for hearing and understanding in many cases, but useless if your tinnitus maskers require 6K.  Head room is the amount of reserve gain the hearing aid has over the amount being used to cover the hearing loss.  Generally the patient has a pain tolerance that sets the upper limit that the hearing aid can produce.  Many less capable hearing aids begin to go into feedback before that level is even reached. Head room would be measured by subtracting the amount of gain needed to address the loss from either the output limit or the feedback limit of the hearing aid at the frequency in question.  The higher the quality of the aid and the better the fitting of that aid, the more headroom in that aid.Ringing in the ears cause is broad but many professionals have a online symptoms checker process that that may relieve your constant ringing in ears. Ask your ear professional today for ringing in ears treatment.
The quality of the hearing professional is more important than the brand of the hearing aid.  Shopping by price, brand or the number of letters after a professionals name and ignoring “gut” feeling about the quality of the professional, are good ways to become disappointed.

The Lyric hearing aid is what I would term a “semi-implantable” hearing aid. Fitters have to have special training to implant and remove the hearing aid. The patient is not supposed to remove it (except in an emergency) and the aid is worn for a period of time (up to several months) and then the aid is removed and discarded and another is implanted. The battery is a sealed system and there is no way to remove or service the battery. The patient buys a “plan” covering a period of time that allows them a certain number of replacement aids over the time span contracted. Prices very, but the cost is in the one to two thousand dollars an ear/ per year. Given the average lifetime of a normal hearing aid, you are looking at a significant investment beyond the cost of a more mainstream system. The Lyric appeals to certain patients for several reasons, that might sound good on the surface, but I think, fail under the strong light of scrutiny. There is an appeal that the fitting a semi-”medical” insertion process and thus different that a regular hearing aid fitting. Some patients want to think “I am getting a medical solution to my problem, rather than a prosthetic device. < It is still a hearing aid, just a different way of coupling it to the ear.> The patient may be drawn to the idea that they are not being “sold” a hearing aid for thousands of dollars, they are leasing it for several hundred every couple of months. But more traditional hearing aids, while having a higher upfront investment, are owned outright and will service the patients’ needs for years to come. “Leasing” a hearing aid for even a hundred dollars a month, will add up pretty quickly. A professional who will offer a “trial period” fits most traditional hearing aids, so the patient is typically not stuck with a hearing aid that does not work correctly anyway.

The Amp hearing aid is an entry-level product, designed for people who are transitioning into wearing hearing aids. In my humble opinion, the product would not be satisfactory for anyone who has a “full time” need for hearing aids. The major advantage (and disadvantage) of the product is its’ low entry cost. It is a stock module that is adapted via various sleeves to fit the patient. It might well be viewed as “reading glasses” for the ears. Just as someone who is transitioning into wearing spectacles might go to the drug store and buy cheap set of reading glasses to wear occasionally; someone may choose to wear the AMP for an hour-long business meeting and then take it off for the rest of the day. Battery life is directly related to how long the battery is in the hearing aid. The AMP requires that you remove the sleeve to remove the battery. That is not easy, but it is the only way to prevent the battery from depleting when the aid is not in use. The small battery that is used in the unit only has about 85 hours of use in it. If you purchase cheap batteries, do not store your batteries correctly or do not remove the battery from the unit when not in use- your battery life will be severely reduced. SIDE BAR- Most problems with hearing aids using batteries quickly, are related to the quality and storage of the battery; not to the hearing aid. If a hearing aid is malfunctioning, it will drain a battery in a matter of an hour or so. If the battery lasts a day, then the fault most likely lies with the battery, not the hearing aid. Batteries need to come from a reliable source and need to be kept in a dry, cool place, away from the sun. Cheap batteries are usually not a bargain. The AMP has a limited ability to be programmed and “tuned in” to the patients hearing loss. The low price is appealing, but it is not without its’ drawbacks. I do not feel that it is fair to compare the results from an AMP, with the reasonable expectations one might have of a typical hearing aid.

The Starkey people also offer a product that is a deep canal fitting along the lines of the Lyric. That product allows for the replacement of batteries and has a huge range of tuning and comfort options. If you have an ear that will accommodate this product, it is an excellent choice for cosmetics and function. It is not the least expensive hearing aid on the market, but it is difficult to find a hearing that is invisible, good and cheap. In the software industry, the old saw is: you can have it cheap, fast and good; pick two. It can be fast and good, but not cheap, etc. With hearing aids, the line would be: you can have it small, good and cheap, pick two. The more traditional Completely In the Canal (CIC) fitting would be a better choice for someone who has an ear that may not comfortably accommodate the deep canal fittings and still wants a smaller product. The CIC and the more popular Reciever In the Canal (RIC) products from Starkey offer a wide array of technologies, reasonable cosmetics, a huge fitting range and good battery life. The RIC products are now available in systems that couple directly to the TV for vastly improved TV enjoyment and still offer a range of prices (directly related to function) for all budgets.

Beware of looking only at PRICE. Patients should more concerned with VALUE. Seek the best value for your money, not the lowest price. If you buy a 50 cent product for $1, you have gotten a poor value. If you pay $10 for a product that is worth $15, you have a good value. Price and Value, do not mean the same thing. After many years in the industry, I would point to the idea that the hearing aid as a commodity and the pursuit of the lowest priced hearing aid as the greatest reasons for patient dissatisfaction with hearing aids. Followed closely by the expertise of the dispenser. Seek a reasonable price on a quality product from a capable dispenser and you will be happy.

Almost
ten million Americans today are currently using hearing aids. This
number is just a mere fraction of those who have actually been
diagnosed with some form of hearing impairment.

I was one of those who has a hearing loss, but postponed getting
hearing aids because of vanity. Eventually I spent $6000 on Vivatone
brand digital hearing aids a couple of years ago and they are
gathering dust on the bathroom counter.

(Anyone need some 10 size batteries?)

If you have a hearing loss and are still denying you need hearing
aids, before you shout “aha!” and email this to your spouse or
significant other, my hearing loose is due to tinnitus.

Not to put to fine a point on it, tinnitus is the perception of sound
in the ears of head when no external source is present.

Tinnitus has
many forms, ringing,
hissing, static,
crickets, screeching,
whooshing, roaring,
pulsing, ocean waves, buzzing,
dial tones, even music.

Mine
is variable.

A
friend has his traced to 12,450 megahertz. (I’m assuming the audio
file plays OK, but I can’t hear it.)

As with most tinnitus sufferers, my tinnitus was caused by a lot of
exposure to noise. In my case it was go-karts, motorcycles, and hot
rods – all without mufflers- when I was a teenager.

But the hearing loss is just as complete and devastating.

Like most others, I put up with it. When
one is younger, wearing hearing aids just isn’t cool.

Even when I approached 60, I didn’t want to be the old man with the
hearing aids. I wore glasses all my life without a hitch. But only old
people wearing hearing aids, right?

While in the case of eyesight impairment, wearing glasses
or contacts seems the most normal thing of all and nobody feels
shameful, when it comes to hearing aids, people get shy and reluctant
in wearing them, because they’d be perceived as being
handicapped.

Hopefully my experience is different from yours. I wish I could hear
better by using hearing aids. But it is not so.

Researching online, I found a ton of homeopathic remedies and cures
for tinnitus. But my audiologist said there was no scientific evidence
to support any claim they work.

He recommended I try digital hearing aids in hope that by amplifying
the natural sound, it would suppress my recognition of the perceived
sound.

About the same time, a friend the same age as I, who had a hearing
loss was raving about his new Vivatone digital hearing aids and the
improvement it made in his life and wife.

They were small, behind-the-ear, flesh colored with an almost
imperceptible wire to the ear. They
were Vivatone brand digital hearing aids.

But they were expensive. $6,000 at that time. Much less now, I’m told.
I was in a position to afford them, so I made the leap.

There was no “getting used” to them. I found them comfortable and easy
to maintain. The only real maintenance, outside of changing the
batteries weekly, was to change ear wax catchers, and this was made
simple due to the design of tool used to install them.

The advantage to the Vivatone digital hearing aids is there is nothing
in your ear canal but a small tube that fits in the ear canal. No need
for a special mold. The dealer fit me immediately in his office.

I liked the way I looked. I wear my hair longish and wear glasses, so
my hair covered some of the hearing aid, and my glasses frames covered
some. The wire leading to my ear canal fell within the natural folds
of my ear.

Not invisible, but darn close.

It was also a time that I started to take control of my hearing loss
by announcing to my co-workers that I had a hearing loss, but was
wearing hearing aids. This was a big step and I got a lot of positive
feedback on how nobody could tell I had hearing aids.

Then slowly, over a matter of months, I came to the realization that
I had wasted my money. The hearing aids were not doing what my
audiologist and I had hoped. Sounds were not clearer. My tinnitus was
not masked.

I still was frustrated in restaurants as the clatter of dishes and the
underlying murmur of conversations at other tables made it almost
impossible to carry on a conversation at my table.

I found myself wearing expensive digital hearing aids, but still
lip-reading, laughing at jokes that I didn’t understand because I
didn’t hear clearly, and saying “pardon me” in a dozen different ways.

Huh? Whut? I’m sorry. Could you repeat that? Again, please?
were back in my conversations with too much regularity. The hearing
aids were worthless.

I truly wish it were different. With the technology they way it is
today, hearing aids are giving relief to millions.

I just wish I was one.

• Feedback Cancellation: This advanced feature is designed to eliminate annoying whistling in the user’s hearing aid before it is noticed by those around the user, or by the user themselves. By eliminating this feedback, users can have enjoyable phone conversations, where feedback can tend to be a problem with other hearing aids.
• Program Change Signal: This feature automatically adapts the intensity of the hearing aid’s program change indicator beep to the user’s current listening environment. For example, in a loud environment, the program change signal will be loud. In a quiet environment, the program change signal will be softer.

Available colors of the Arena hearing aid:

• Feedback Preventer: This advanced feedback-elimination feature helps avoid embarrassing and annoying feedback that can sometimes occur with hearing aids without this technology. The annoying whistling that can occur while talking on the phone with some other hearing devices will not occur with the Day⁺ hearing aids, helping to make phone conversations a much more enjoyable experience.
• Wireless Technology: This feature allows for volume and program coupling for users who wear binaural hearing instruments. This allows users to make one-touch adjustments to multiple hearing devices at the same time.
• Automatic/Adaptive Directional Microphone: This feature delivers improved speech hearing, especially in situations where multiple people are talking at the same time. It can help make conversations in noisy environments much easier.
• Green & Easy: Since the Day⁺ hearing devices can run on rechargeable batteries, they are available with Rexton’s charging unit, helping users avoid drained batteries at inconvenient times.
• Optional Remote Control: Rexton’s remote control allows users to make quick adjustments to the program or volume settings of his or her Day⁺ hearing device.

The Day⁺ series of hearing aids are also compatible with Rexton’s accessories that can help provide enhanced hearing, and easier use.

Rexton’s Remote Control

This easy to use device is designed to allows users to make quick and easy adjustments to his or her hearing device in an inconspicuous and discreet manner. With its small size, this remote ensures that the hearing aid wearer will be the only one to notice an adjustment is being made to the hearing aid.

Rexton’s Charger

This unit allows users to avoid draining their hearing aid’s batteries at an inconvenient or unexpected time. The hearing aids are placed in the charger at night for 6 to 8 hours, and they are ready to be used for the entire following day.

Available colors of the Rexton Day⁺ Free hearing aid:

Available colors of the Day⁺ HP hearing aid:

Available colors of the Day⁺ Open hearing aid:

Available colors of the Day⁺ P hearing aid:

• Wireless Technology: This feature allows users of the Bridge⁺ hearing aids to make easy adjustments to multiple hearing devices at the same time with just one touch. This makes volume and program adjustments much easier for those wearing binaural hearing instruments.
• Rechargability: This series of hearing aids are compatible with either standard, or rechargeable batteries. Because these devices can be recharged, users do not have to worry about his or her hearing aid’s batteries running out at an inconvenient time. After a nightly charge, the devices are ready to be worn the entire next day.
• Automatic Environment Management: This advanced feature constantly adjusts the hearing aid’s settings based on the user’s current sound environment. This helps eliminate the need to make manual adjustments to the device when moving between several different listening environments.
• Sound Radiance: This feature delivers high frequency hearing to users who may have lost it. With the return of higher sounds, users are provided with a fuller spectrum of sounds, for more true-to-life hearing of music, speech, and other sounds.
• Multi-Channel Adaptive Directional Microphone: This advanced microphone technology helps deliver improved speech hearing, especially in noisy environments where multiple people are talking at the same time.
• Automatic Noise Reduction: This feature also helps to improve speech hearing in noisy environments. The hearing aid pinpoints background noise and softens it. At the same time, it enhances speech, making conversations in these noisy situations much easier.
• Feedback Preventer: This feedback-cancellation technology eliminates the annoying whistling that can sometimes occur in hearing devices without this feature. Whistling can often occur while talking on the phone. However, with the Bridge⁺ hearing aids, this is not an issue, and phone conversations can be much more enjoyable.

In addition to its wide array of advanced technology, the Rexton Bridge⁺ hearing aids are also compatible with the company’s accessories. These accessories allow for convenient use, easy volume and program adjustments, and enhanced hearing of electronic devices.

Rexton’s Charger

With the Rexton Bridge⁺ hearing aids, users do not have to worry about drained batteries in the devices at inconvenient times. Each night, the devices can be charged for 6 to 8 hours as the users sleep, allowing them to be used for the entire following day. Additionally, the charger features a dryer that removes moisture from the hearing aid, which can help extend its life.

Rexton’s Remote Control

This easy-to-use, inconspicuous device allows users to make quick adjustments to the volume or program settings of his or her Bridge⁺ hearing aid. Because of its small size, nobody will know an adjustment is being made to the user’s hearing device.

Blu RCU

This is a small, Bluetooth compatible accessory made by Rexton with two major functions. First, the device acts as a remote control for the Bridge⁺ hearing aids, allowing users to make volume and program setting changes to the device. The Blue RCU also allows users to stream audio in stereo sound (in both ears) from their television, MP3 player, telephone, and other electronics, directly to his or her hearing aids.

Available colors of the Bridge⁺ RIC:

Bridge⁺ ITE:

• Automatic Environment Management: This advanced feature of the Gem⁺ hearing aid is constantly monitoring the hearing environment of the user, and adjusting the appropriate hearing aid settings to deliver the best hearing quality possible.
• Automatic Equalizer: The hearing aid’s automatic equalizer adjusts the hearing aid’s settings depending on the user’s sound environment, helping to deliver a high-quality, and comfortable listening experience.
• Automatic Multi-Channel Adaptive Directional Microphone: This feature helps to deliver improved speech hearing and understanding in noisy environments, especially those in which many people are talking at the same time. This technology can help make in-noise conversations much easier.
• Automatic Noise Reduction: This feature constantly monitors distracting background noise, and softens it. At the same time, this feature enhances speech signals, further improving the ease in which the user can have a conversation in a noisy environment.
• Sound Locator: This feature helps to imitate the natural function of the user’s outer ear (pinna). With the Sound Locator feature, the Gem⁺ hearing aid can help users pinpoint sounds in his or her environment.
• Feedback Preventer: This advanced feedback cancellation technology eliminates annoying whistling before it is noticed by the hearing aid user, or those around them. With some hearing aids, this whistling can occur while talking on the phone. With the Gem⁺ hearing aid and the Feedback Preventer feature, users can enjoy conversations on the phone without feedback.
• Sound Radiance: This feature delivers high frequency sound hearing to those who may have lost it. With high frequency hearing returned, users can enjoy a wider, fuller spectrum of sounds. This can provide added enjoyment of music, conversations, or sounds in nature.
• SoundSmoothing: This feature softens the occasional impulsive sounds of everyday life. Dishes rattling, paper rustling, and other loud sounds are dampened, and are made less unpleasant for the Gem⁺ wearer.
• Wireless Assistant: This feature makes wearing binaural instruments easier, as adjustments can be made to multiple hearing aids with the touch of a button.
• Advanced Nano Coating: This coating helps protect the user’s hearing aid from damaging water and wax. Protecting the hearing aid from these naturally occurring substances can help extend the life of the device.

The Gem⁺ hearing aid is also compatible with a remote control that allows for discreet control of the user’s hearing aid.

Rexton’s Remote Control

The Gem⁺ hearing aid’s compatibility with Rexton’s remote control allows users to make easy, quick, and discreet adjustments to the volume and program settings of his or her hearing aid. Because of its small size and easy use, nobody else will know an adjustment is being made to the hearing aid.

Available colors of the Rexton Gem⁺ hearing aid:

• Focus 360°: This feature helps users pick up on dominant speech sounds, even if it is not directly in front of them.  Speech is made easier to hear, even from the side or rear of the user.  This feature is especially useful in situations where the hearing aid wearer cannot directly face the speaker, such as in a car.
• Automatic Multi-Channel Adaptive Directional Microphone: This advanced microphone technology delivers advanced speech hearing in noisy situations, especially situations in which multiple people are talking at the same time.
• Automatic Noise Reduction: This noise-cancelling technology helps the hearing aid wearer focus on what is important, and ignore what is not. It automatically isolates distracting background noise and softens it, while at the same time, it isolates important speech signals, and enhances them. This makes conversations in noisy environments a much easier task.
• Sound Locator: This feature of the Cobalt⁺ hearing aid mimics the natural function of the user’s pinna (outer ear). The pinna helps users locate sounds in his or her hearing environment, and the Sound Locator feature does exactly that. It makes pinpointing sounds much easier.
• Feedback Preventer: This feedback elimination feature automatically eliminates feedback before it occurs. Annoying whistling that can sometimes occur while hearing aid users talk on the phone is not an issue with the Cobalt⁺ hearing aid.
• Sound Radiance: This feature enhances the sound of high frequency noises, helping to provide users with a richer, fuller sound spectrum. With enhanced high frequency hearing, users may enjoy music, or sounds in nature, more fully.
• SoundSmoothing: This feature softens the occasional impulsive sounds people experience everyday. Sounds like glass breaking, paper rustling, or other loud sounds are dampened, and made more comfortable for the user.
• Automatic Environment Management: This feature automatically, and continuously analyzes the Cobalt⁺ wearer’s sound environment, and adjusts its settings appropriately, to provide the best sound quality possible.
• Blu Link: This feature allows the Cobalt⁺ to be compatible with Rexton’s audio streaming accessories, like the Blu RCU (see below). With Blu Link, the hearing aids can receive high quality audio directly from the user’s electronic devices.
• Green & Easy: The optional Rexton charging system allows the user’s Cobalt⁺ hearing aids to be worn without having to worry about when the battery will run out.
• Wireless Assistant: This feature optimizes the hearing aid’s sound quality, while also helping to make it easier to use. Users with binaural hearing instruments can make volume and program changes to their hearing aid with one touch.
• Advanced Nano Coating: This coating helps to protect the user’s hearing aid from damaging wax, moisture, and other debris that can cause inhibited performance.

Along with a variety of advanced technology, the Cobalt⁺ hearing aid is compatible with Rexton’s accessories that provide users with an ability to stream audio directly to his or her hearing aid, a remote control unit, and a charger that eliminates the need to worry about drained hearing aid batteries. These accessories include:

Blu RCU

This advanced, small, Bluetooth compatible device allows users to control the functions of his or her hearing aid, including volume and program controls. Additionally, this device allows users to stream their electronics’ audio directly to the Cobalt⁺ hearing aids, in stereo sound (heard in both ears). Users can listen to their television, mobile phone, MP3 player, and other devices with ease.

Rexton’s Remote Control

This easy to use, inconspicuous device allows users to make discreet changes to his or her hearing aid, without anyone else knowing.

Rexton’s Charger

This device eliminates the need to worry about whether or not the user’s hearing aid batteries will make it through the day. A 6 to 8 hour nightly charge of the Cobalt⁺ hearing aids allows them to provide exceptional hearing to the user the entire following day, without worry. Additionally, a drying feature of the charger removes damaging moisture from the hearing aid, helping to extend its useful life.

Available colors of the Rexton Cobalt⁺ hearing aid:

The Insite⁺ hearing aid has advanced technology built in, allowing for a more enjoyable hearing experience in a variety of different locations. This technology includes:

• Focus 360°: This advanced feature allows for enhanced speech hearing in a variety of situations. It automatically picks up to the dominant speech signal even if it is to the rear or side of the user. This feature is excellent for having conversations in the car, or any situation where the hearing aid wearer cannot directly face the person talking.
• Blu Link: This feature allows for compatibility with the Blu RCU accessory. With Bluetooth capability, audio can be streamed directly to the user’s hearing aid.
• Wireless Technology: This feature allows users to make single-touch adjustments to multiple hearing devices at the same time. Program and volume changes are made much easier for those who wear binaural hearing instruments.
• Wireless Assistant: This feature helps to optimize the Insite⁺ hearing aid’s sound quality, while also helping make it easier to use.
• Feedback Preventer: This feature automatically eliminates feedback in the user’s hearing aid before it can be heard by the user, or anyone around them. This can help make phone conversations much more enjoyable, as it eliminates the annoying whistling that can often occur while on the phone.
• Sound Radiance: This feature helps to provide users with a richer, fuller sound spectrum, by enhancing the user’s hearing of high frequency sounds. This can help provide users with more enjoyment of music, sounds in nature, and voices.
• Sound Locator: This feature of the Insite⁺ hearing aid mimics the natural function of the user’s outer ear (the pinna), by helping users pinpoint the location of sounds in his or her environment.
• SoundSmoothing: This feature helps make sudden, impulsive sounds more pleasant to hear. The uncomfortable sounds of rustling paper or clanging dishes is substantially reduced.
• Multi-Channel Adaptive Directional Microphone: This feature provides enhanced speech hearing in noisy environments, especially where multiple people are speaking at once.
• Automatic Environment Management: This feature is constantly analyzing the user’s sound environment, and adjusting the hearing aid’s settings to provide the user with the best sound quality possible.
• Rechargability: Since the device is compatible with standard, or rechargeable batteries, users have the option of performing a nightly charge on their hearing aids, preparing them for the following day’s use. After 6 to 8 hours of charging, the hearing aid is ready to be used for the entire following day.

The Insite⁺ hearing aid is also compatible with Rexton accessories that allow for easier, more convenient use, as well as better hearing of electronic devices. These compatible accessories include:

Blue RCU

This small, Bluetooth compatible device allows users to make discreet adjustments to his or her hearing aid’s volume or program settings. Additionally, it also lets users stream high-quality stereo sound from his or her television, mobile phone, MP3 player, radio, and other electronic device, directly to their hearing aid. This lets users listen to the television at a volume that they can hear, while his or her family watches at a volume comfortable for them.

Rexton’s Charger

This accessory helps eliminate drained hearing aid batteries at inconvenient times. Each night, the user can charger his or her hearing aids, allowing for a full day’s use the following day. Additionally, the charger’s drying feature helps remove moisture from the hearing aid that can cause lasting damage.

Available colors of the Rexton Insite⁺:

The technology available in the Stream⁺ hearing aid allows users to enjoy the world around them, and experience hearing quality that they have not experienced before. Some of this technology in the Stream⁺ hearing aid includes:

• Automatic Noise Reduction: This advanced noise-cancelling technology allows users to hear better in noisy situations. It does this by isolating distracting background noise, as well as speech sounds. The hearing aid automatically reduces the sound of the background noise, while it enhances the speech sounds, helping to make conversations, especially in noisy environments, much easier.
• Sound Radiance: This feature brings high-pitched hearing to those who may have lost it. It enhances the perception of high frequency sounds, helping to provide the user with a rich, broad sound spectrum. This allows for enhanced enjoyment of music, and more natural sounding speech.
• Feedback Preventer: This feature helps reduce the whistling that can sometimes occur while talking on the phone, or while listening to music with headphones. The hearing aid detects this feedback sound, and eliminates it, even before it is noticed by the hearing aid wearer.
• SoundSmoothing: This feature makes hearing harsh, impulsive sounds more comfortable, by automatically softening them. This makes hearing crashing or clanging sounds less unpleasant.
• Automatic Environment Manager: This feature of the Stream⁺ hearing aids automatically analyzes the listening environment of the user, and adjusts the appropriate features to provide users with the best hearing quality possible. This provides users with the optimum sound quality, without having to make continuous manual adjustments to his or her hearing aid.
• Blu Link: This feature allows for compatibility with Rexton’s Mini Blu and Blu RCU accessories. These accessories allow users to stream audio to his or her device, and also allow users to make quick and easy adjustments to the hearing aids themselves.
• Wireless Assistant: This feature allows for the best sound quality possible, and the easiest use of the user’s hearing aid. It eliminates the potential differences that could be present in important features from hearing aid to hearing aid.

The Stream⁺ hearing aid is compatible with some other Rexton accessories that allow for convenient control of the device, as well as enhanced hearing of the user’s electronics.

Mini Blu RCU

This accessory made by Rexton is a very small, Bluetooth connectable device that delivers the audio from the user’s electronic devices in stereo sound (it can be heard in both ears). This allows users to hear the audio from their telephones, stereos, radios, MP3 players, and more, directly in his or her ears. With a 30 foot range, users can watch television wherever they please. Additionally, with the Mini Blu RCU, users can use their hearing aids as headsets for accepting calls on their mobile phones. With this device, two connections can be made at once, allowing users to switch between hearing the audio of a pair of electronic device, the telephone and the television, for example.

Blu RCU

This small, Bluetooth compatible multi-use device allows users to control his or her hearing aid’s functions wirelessly. At the same time, the device allows users to stream high quality audio to their hearing aid from their electronic devices in stereo sound.

Available colors of the Stream⁺ hearing aid: