Marketplace has been flooded with a huge number of new offerings in the way of digital hearing aids in recently years. At last count there were more than 40 different makes and models of these digital hearing devices that are manufactured by no less than twenty different manufacturers. The popularity of digital hearing technology is unquestionably rising and many are left to wonder if digital is a better choice over analogue.
We live in an era when most things that are digital are considered to be “state-of-the-art,” but not everyone is convinced that digital necessarily equates with better, as seems to be a common assumption among many people. There are many people who claim that digitized hearing aids, while advantageous in many ways. Some times they are not necessarily always the best choice for everyone.
The first digital hearing aids were made available in the mid-eighties by two different manufacturers of hearing aids, their units were the first to meld digital signal processing, known as DPS. With hearing aid products creating a cutting edge hearing device, these hearing aids were rather large, to accommodate the DPS, and therefore never gained in popularity.
Two different manufacturers of hearing solutions reintroduced digitized hearing aids to the marketplace about a decade later and this time they were much better received because technology had advanced to the point that the DSP could be integrated into many of the most popular styles of these devices, including the behind the ear and in the ear hearing aids.

Marketplace has been flooded with a huge number of new offerings in the way of digital hearing aids in recently years. At last count there were more than 40 different makes and models of these digital hearing devices that are manufactured by no less than twenty different manufacturers. The popularity of digital hearing technology is unquestionably rising and many are left to wonder if digital is a better choice over analogue.

We live in an era when most things that are digital are considered to be “state-of-the-art,” but not everyone is convinced that digital necessarily equates with better, as seems to be a common assumption among many people. There are many people who claim that digitized hearing aids, while advantageous in many ways. Some times they are not necessarily always the best choice for everyone.

The first digital hearing aids were made available in the mid-eighties by two different manufacturers of hearing aids, their units were the first to meld digital signal processing, known as DPS. With hearing aid products creating a cutting edge hearing device, these hearing aids were rather large, to accommodate the DPS, and therefore never gained in popularity.

Two different manufacturers of hearing solutions reintroduced digitized hearing aids to the marketplace about a decade later and this time they were much better received because technology had advanced to the point that the DSP could be integrated into many of the most popular styles of these devices, including the behind the ear and in the ear hearing aids.

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