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I am profoundly deaf bilaterally. I still use a powerful hearing aid in my left ear, but the ear will eventually die, as my right ear did five years ago. Now I have a cochlear implant in my right hear and it is amazing. However, I have trouble in noisy surrounding and with hearing sounds from a distance, such as while watching a movie or television. For those situations I use a personal listening device / FM receiver with a neck loop. When I switched from the old neck loop to these NoiZfree binaural earhooks, their close proximity to the T-coils in my hearing aid and sound processor increased the amplitude and fidelity of the sound and I was able to listen, often without needing captions. Even better, I could turn down the output level on my listening system almost to minimum so that the rechargeable battery lasted nearly 8 hours instead of 3 or 4.
Now for the bad: These are advertised as "Durable design for hard and intense use" by one of more sellers. That's simply not true. My current set is less than 6 months old and I've treated them with care. The extremely fine conductors inside the cable have cracked and separated at the point where the cable enters the plug body. I have to carefully flex the cord to restore continuity so I can hear sound well enough to enjoy. And then I have to hold the cord in that configuration for an hour or two. While I may be able to repair the cord by opening it and resoldering the fine wires, I shouldn't have to, and many folks don't have the necessary dextarity and tools. So,if you decide to buy the ear-hooks, simple beware and be VERY CAREFUL how you handle them.My teen uses this with her phone to listen to music. We get 4-5 months....sometimes, before they break. Either the wires inside break or in one case the hook came completely off. NOT for anything more than sitting still in a chair to listen to something. But good clarity when they are together.
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