Directional Microphones – available on most BTE, OE, ITE, Half Shell, and ITC styles of hearing aids. The best feature you can have on your hearing aid for hearing in noisy places, they reduce all the sounds that are behind you so that it doesn’t get in the way of sounds that are in front of you. They can be automatic, the hearing aid automatically decides when to turn them on once the sound level in the room gets too loud. Some are also be adaptive following moving sounds, or reduce several different sounds at the same time.
Noise Reduction – doesn’t really reduce noise, it reduces amplification in the frequencies where there is noise and no speech. If there is a fan running in the background, it will not amplify it as much as it will speech. When the hearing aid finds both speech and noise at a frequency, you get both. More advanced the hearing aids manage noise better by breaking the frequencies.
Memories – two types of memories available on a hearing aid, manual and automatic. Hearing aids have a push button allowing you to have different settings for different situations. It beeps when you push the button to let you know which memory you are using. Advanced hearing aids can have memories that are automatic, instead of pushing a button, the hearing aid does it for you.
Bands / Channels – used to adjust the volume in a hearing aid, more bands means more control when we program the hearing aid to your hearing loss.

Directional Microphones – available on most BTE, OE, ITE, Half Shell, and ITC styles of hearing aids. The best feature you can have on your hearing aid for hearing in noisy places, they reduce all the sounds that are behind you so that it doesn’t get in the way of sounds that are in front of you. They can be automatic, the hearing aid automatically decides when to turn them on once the sound level in the room gets too loud. Some are also be adaptive following moving sounds, or reduce several different sounds at the same time.

Noise Reduction – doesn’t really reduce noise, it reduces amplification in the frequencies where there is noise and no speech. If there is a fan running in the background, it will not amplify it as much as it will speech. When the hearing aid finds both speech and noise at a frequency, you get both. More advanced the hearing aids manage noise better by breaking the frequencies.

Memories – two types of memories available on a hearing aid, manual and automatic. Hearing aids have a push button allowing you to have different settings for different situations. It beeps when you push the button to let you know which memory you are using. Advanced hearing aids can have memories that are automatic, instead of pushing a button, the hearing aid does it for you.

Bands / Channels – used to adjust the volume in a hearing aid, more bands means more control when we program the hearing aid to your hearing loss.

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