Monday, August 29, 2016

Feeling Fatigued....Check Out Signia Primax

Binaural Hearing....Happens with the Brain!

When you hear a sound in both ears, it’s like hearing the same sound twice. This helps your brain create a better perceptual image of the sound.

Binaural squelch
In situations where there is both noise and speech, hearing with both ears helps your brain give speech sounds preference over noise. This makes speech seem louder than it really is.

Binaural directed listening
In noisy situations, with many different sounds coming from different places, hearing with both ears helps your brain pick out the one sound source you’re interested in and focus on it.

When you have hearing loss, these effects are significantly reduced.

Signia – smart hearing aids inspired by the way we hear naturally.
To design our hearing aids, Signia engineers drew inspiration from how you hear naturally.   Just like the brain uses sound input from both ears, our primax hearing aids share and exchange signals received from both hearing aids.
Similar to the natural binaural processing in the brain, the two hearing aids can make more intelligent processing decisions together.   By emulating the effects of binaural hearing, primax hearing aids can deliver better clarity, richness of sound, and  a greater ability to know where sound is coming from.
This is why primax hearing aids are clinically proven to deliver better than normal hearing, with less listening effort.

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Squinting with Your Ears

04/21/2016
Hearing is a complex process and hard work for your brain. This is particularly true if you have hearing loss. Everything we hear has to be constantly evaluated to separate the relevant from the unimportant. The more sounds accompanying a sentence the harder it is to understand.
A high level of hearing strain can cause you to develop symptoms of stress. You feel tired, drained, and may find it hard to concentrate. The key to relief is hearing aids able to single out a target speaker’s voice from ambient noise to such an extent that listening effort is significantly reduced.

Hearing requires effort

Many daily situations can present enormous challenges for those with hearing loss, whether or not they wear hearing aids. Background noises make it more difficult to follow your conversation partner. The busy family breakfast, a conversation at a noisy train station, talking with colleagues in the cafeteria or chatting in a street cafĂ© ― these situations require straining to hear what others are saying. Some people described the sensation as “squinting with your ears”. No wonder that you feel exhausted by the end of each day. You have listening fatigue.
These are exactly the sort of challenging hearing situations hearing aids with advanced technology can help. They can pick up the voice of someone speaking to you and elevate it above interfering sounds in the environment. It doesn’t matter whether your conversation partner is standing directly in front of or next to you, or sitting way down a table with other people ― with the right hearing aids, you’ll hear their voice clearly and distinctly.

Reverberation poses an additional challenge

Besides noisy public places, locations with reverberation make it harder to understand speech. Rooms with hard surfaces, such as bare walls or marble floors, reflect more sound and cause greater reverberation than rooms with carpet, drapes, or furniture to absorb sound waves. Unpleasant and distracting sound reflections not only occur in places where you only spend a short time, such as large foyers or entrance halls, but also in training rooms and classrooms. For hearing aids to be effective in these situations, they need to reduce these negative effects in environments requiring you to pay particular attention to what’s being heard. The speech signals have to be made clear and crisp in order to further reduce listening effort for wearers.

We have the hearing aids you need

If brain strain from struggling to hear all day long is a problem for you, we have the answer. In the coming weeks, we are going to reveal our latest hearing aid technology platform, which has been clinically-proven to alleviate these issues. Please visit us again for all the details ― coming soon!