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Meet Susan and Alex.
As a happily married couple,
they have active lifestyles with many shared and separate interests.
They both also have hearing loss
so they want to hear better
and have a hearing aid with comfortable sound.
Their different interests mean they have individual demands of their hearing instruments.
Luckily they both wear hearing aids with Siemens BestSound Technology
which can easily accommodate their individual hearing needs.
But what does BestSound Technology really mean?
Let's take a closer look.
This is
„BestSound Technology in 4 min”
Susan often meets with her friends in a nearby café.
On her way there she walks through the park.
Before she got her Siemens hearing instruments
she could see birds but not hear them.
This was because the sound of the birds was outside her hearing range.
Better Hearing first of all means restoring the audibility of sounds
by moving them into the audible range.
Now Susan can hear the birds
as well as a variety of other sounds.
Audibility is only one side of Better Hearing.
Previously, Susan encountered problems
understanding her friends in her favorite café
because there is constant background noise.
This is not a problem for a person with normal hearing.
But for someone with hearing loss
speech is not always clear in noisy situations.
Susan's hearing loss means
she needs a better signal to noise ratio than normal-hearing listeners.
In other words,
speech has to be much clearer than the background noise.
BestSound Technology does just that,
so now Susan can easily follow conversations
when there is background noise.
Alex manages a big construction project in the city.
Because of his hearing loss
loud sounds like hammering are especially disturbing to him.
To improve Sound Comfort, BestSound Technology detects
and suppresses the sound level of unwanted noises
so that Alex can still hear them
but they're not disturbing.
A few years ago, Alex used to have hearing aids without BestSound Technology.
In certain situations,
like when he adjusted his helmet,
Alex used to have problems with the horrible whistling noise of feedback.
Feedback occurs when amplified
sound from the hearing instrument escapes from the ear
and gets amplified by the hearing aid again.
BestSound Technology uses a very fast feedback cancellation system
to cut-out feedback even in the most difficult situations.
There is no “one-size-fits-all” solution for a hearing aid.
The Hearing instruments have to provide Better Hearing
and Sound Comfort according to the needs of each individual.
This is a very complex process.
Many things have to be taken into account.
First of all,
the hearing loss experienced by Susan and Alex is different.
Alex and Susan also have different experience in using hearing instruments,
which influences their acceptance of amplified sounds.
Finally they both encounter different situations in their daily lives
that place distinct demands on their hearing instruments.
BestSound Technology
enables the hearing care professional
to take all this into account
and helps to provide Susan and Alex
with fittings that match their individual needs. and helps to provide Susan and Alex
with fittings that match their individual needs.
Over time,
hearing instruments with BestSound Technology
learn the users‟ personal preferences
in a variety of situations
and react automatically,
giving the user the right mix of Better Hearing
and Sound Comfort
when it is needed.
In short:
BestSound Technology
gives Susan and Alex
Better Hearing and Sound Comfort gives Susan and Alex
Better Hearing and Sound Comfort
according to their individual needs.
BestSound Technology
hear life to it's fullest.