New digital aids were more expensive than their analogue cousins, they still enjoyed almost immediate popularity among consumers. This almost instant acceptance and success, combined with a promise of even more advanced signal processing in the future, digital hearing aid technology had finally “come of age.”
The qestion is, does the quality of the sound from digital hearing aids really better than the analogue versions? The answer really lies in the processing abilities that the digital technology provides and from that aspect the answer is yes. Experts say that digital hearing technology is not superior simply because it is digital. The advantage comes from the fact that the DSP give the manufacturers, the clinicians and the end users so many features and options for enhancing sound that analogue devices simply cannot deliver.
A few of the many advantages of digitized hearing aids include such things as:
Gain processing- helps to lessen background noise while isolating conversational sounds
Digital feedback reduction (DFR)- significantly reduces incidence of annoying, and often painful, feedback from the unit; digital noise reduction, which also helps eliminate background noise
Digital speech enhancers  and directional microphones, features that are virtually non-existent in analogue hearing aids.
Experts in the hearing aid industry consider this era of advancements in digital hearing aids to be a very exciting time. They also expect that there will be additional breakthroughs and advancements in the years to come as the digital technology continues to make better hearing available to more people.

New digital aids were more expensive than their analogue cousins, they still enjoyed almost immediate popularity among consumers. This almost instant acceptance and success, combined with a promise of even more advanced signal processing in the future, digital hearing aid technology had finally “come of age.”

The qestion is, does the quality of the sound from digital hearing aids really better than the analogue versions? The answer really lies in the processing abilities that the digital technology provides and from that aspect the answer is yes. Experts say that digital hearing technology is not superior simply because it is digital. The advantage comes from the fact that the DSP give the manufacturers, the clinicians and the end users so many features and options for enhancing sound that analogue devices simply cannot deliver.

A few of the many advantages of digitized hearing aids include such things as:

Gain processing- helps to lessen background noise while isolating conversational sounds

Digital feedback reduction (DFR)- significantly reduces incidence of annoying, and often painful, feedback from the unit; digital noise reduction, which also helps eliminate background noise

Digital speech enhancers  and directional microphones, features that are virtually non-existent in analogue hearing aids.

Experts in the hearing aid industry consider this era of advancements in digital hearing aids to be a very exciting time. They also expect that there will be additional breakthroughs and advancements in the years to come as the digital technology continues to make better hearing available to more people.

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