Sonic Touch - A tiny hearing aid with cool features!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 – 0 Comments
Last week our Sonic Innovations regional rep, Ken, visited our office to train us on their latest open-fit hearing aid – Touch. There are some fascinating hearing aids on the market, but this was something to see. First, Ken compared Touch to other open-fit behind-the-ear models currently available and it was easily the smallest and most discreet hearing aid we’ve seen yet. Click here
Knowing that the Touch’s size and multitude of skin and hair tones will appeal to consumers cosmetically, it was critical that the hearing device also perform well and show durability. Based on what we’ve seen, Sonic has accomplished both. From a technology standpoint, the Touch uses Sonic’s proven Velocity processing and feature platform. The features can be found by clicking here - Our patients have used the Sonic Velocity family of products the past year with great success. Sonic Innovations has long been the benchmark in the hearing aid industry for improving speech understanding in the presence of background noise. By combining unique directional microphone features and patented noise reduction technology, they truly excel in this area. As a matter of fact, Bose Electronics just purchased the rights to use their noise reduction processing in their next line of products.
As far as durability and reliability, moisture can easily be a true enemy of hearing aid wearers. Sonic Innovations has gone to great lengths to make sure the Touch is the most moisture resistant open-fit BTE hearing aid on the market. First, Ken told us how they subjected the Touch to a live test in a humidity/moisture chamber and compared it to several other competitors’ devices. The Touch operated effectively (250 hours) and lasted the longest in comparison to any other hearing aid in the test. The nearest competitor operated about 50% as long. The above link explains the interior and exterior design in detail. See more info click here
We just received word today that Sonic Innovations will be shipping the product this week, so we’re looking forward to gauge our patients’ success.
Steve