I asked John Miles, my longtime audiologist, if Sonic Innovations had ever yet come out with a more powerful hearing aid. (Okay, yes, I know, if you click on SI’s link it looks like the guy is gargling his, but never mind.) I had had a pair of theirs for awhile that were musically by far the most perfect hearing aids I have ever tried–but they just weren’t loud enough for someone at my level of deafness, they fed back too often, and eventually I had to replace them. But the best of the rest of what was out there was just plain not pitch-perfect. They drove me nuts. You can’t tell me Alison Krauss is singing those top notes flat in real life, you know and I know it’s lazy software. Grrr.
So. I was in to John’s recently getting some work done, and happened to ask him if SI had ever yet come up with the hearing aids of my dreams. Louder? Got feedback suppression now? He went and checked. Yes!
There was some twiddle-your-fingers time in his office this morning with my ears hitched up to his computer as he was programming the new aids and walking through the new SI system, and out came the knitting.
And I bet I’m the first patient of his to snarl my silk in his telephone-cord-type testing setup.
I went home and, first thing I did was to listen to a favorite song on a musician friend’s CD. And then: Alison Krauss, “Now That I’ve Found You.” The way she really sounds. Heavenly.
At last. Oh, at last!