When someone without a hearing loss listens, we focus on one source of sound, automatically filtering out background noise. This can be especially difficult if you have hearing loss and make it even more difficult to listen to the person that you are having a conversation with.
When you wear a hearing aid for the first time, hearing most things isn’t an issue, if anything you feel like you hear too much and it’s too loud. You may suddenly hear ordinary noise, from car horns to buzzing from electric equipment, that previously didn’t bother you or you couldn’t clearly hear. You may feel overwhelmed because the modern world is full of noise that you have not been used to hearing.
As pubs and restaurants start to reopen again as lockdown restrictions are lifted, you may find that you struggle to hear through background noise. Many hearing aids do not fully cancel out background noise so you may struggle to hear the people you are with clearly if your hearing aids are not specifically designed to block out background noise.
Hummingbird Hearingcare pride ourselves in supplying the latest and best hearing aids with noise filtering technology. Most notably, Oticon. All Oticon hearing solutions are built on BrainHearing™ technology that is designed to support your brain’s natural process of making sense of sound. Through life-changing technology, Oticon hearing aids are able to provide solutions for all types of hearing loss, ages and lifestyles. Directional microphones within the unit are also standard. If you are attending a concert or class, for example, you could pick a setting that uses the microphones to focus on sounds coming from in front of you, rather than from behind.
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