I encourage all of my patients with any kind of problem, concern, or issue with their hearing aids to bring them to me, the sooner the better.  With my new fittings, even with experienced patients, I also encourage them to write down any particular issues, or problems as well as the environment that they occurred in, as it is really difficult to figure out what they are experiencing, unless you have a greater idea of the overall sound field and operational environment in which the particular complaint, issue, or problem is occurring, as today’s dynamic circuitry responds entirely different in a single source, quiet environment, than when faced with multiple sound sources of various types and volumes, as occurs in every social environment.  

Over the years I’ve had some patients bring me some pretty interesting challenges, but none recently raised the eyebrows of my office manager, or caused me to smile quite like the request that came with an old patient’s request for adjustment of his new Moxi 6 fitting.  Seems he is hearing better than with his two year old Dot2 360, and is really beginning to enjoy hands free cell phone conversations delivered right to his ear, and the streaming features it allows for his TV and iPhone, but his written request was that I needed to, “Put the Ping back in my Golf Swing.”

In doing a comparative analysis of the Widex Clear 440 RIC, with the Unitron Moxi 20 RIC, hearing aids, it is understood that this about two of the industry’s pinnacle products, and I am discussing subjective differences in my own experience that are difficult to quantify, but rather get to my own, personal overall quality of experience, which includes many more factors than show up on the even most extensive of ANSI test protocols.  

This report is not about the numbers, or the obvious functional equivalence afforded by the fact that the two instruments being compared,  must meet similar consumer expectations.  But rather, what happens when two of the industry's leading engineering, and programming teams compete using the same basic objectives to produce different equipment and accessories designed to accomplish similar tasks.