Author: Hearing Review Staff

Digital Hearing Instruments

Digital Hearing Instruments Siemens Hearing Instruments Inc, Piscataway, NJ, offers the PHOENIX™ Pro, which has the digital sound quality of the PHOENIX series with the added advantage of programmable controls. The PHOENIX Pro family consist

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Amplified Telephone

Amplified Telephone Ameriphone Products by Walker, a Division of Plantronics Inc, Garden Grove, Calif, offers the XL-40 Amplified Telephone. The unit delivers up to 43+dB extra amplification and features a separate adjustable tone control (500-2,

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VNG Technology

VNG Technology Interacoustics, Eden Prairie, Minn, has announced updates to its VO25 VNG technology. Features include improvements to the cameras and projection images, to ensure high-quality recordings. (800) 947-6334; www.interacoustics-us.com.

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Vibration Reduced Receiver

Vibration Reduced Receiver Knowles Electronics, Itasca, Ill, introduces the PHF receiver. The PHF receiver uses Knowles’ Pantograph technology to reduce receiver vibration, thereby decreasing the possibility of mechanical feedback within hea

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Turning It Down a Notch

The Baby Boomer generation thought they would hear the music forever, however, many are now having trouble hearing it at all. This problem isn’t just one for older Americans. According to studies conducted in 1999 by the US Food and Drug Adm

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Pioneers of Technology

Starkey Laboratories Inc joins forces with colleagues within the hearing industry to develop the Lexis FM system. Jessica Kelley, worldwide marketing manager, Starkey Laboratories Inc Working together with Audibel, Bernafon, MicroTech, NUEAR

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Software Updates

Audioscan, Dorchester, Ontario, Canada, has released the 2.0 version of software for its Audioscan® Verifit® real-ear hearing aid analyzer. Among the program’s improvements are a real-time Speech Envelope and Speechmap®, with a choice of D

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Updated Digital Line

Siemens Hearing Instruments Inc, Piscataway, NJ, offers the PRISMA™2, which supplies improved listening, fitting, and wearing comfort by combining PRISMA’s fully digital quality with updated features, and TwinMic™ directional m

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Digital Hearing Solution

Unitron Hearing, Plymouth, Minn, a manufacturer of easy-to-use digital hearing solutions, recently launched the Conversa™ with ClearCall, at the 15th annual AAA conference in San Antonio, Tex. Conversa offers a solution for telephone use by

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Digital Sound Processing

Interton/AHS, Minneapolis, offers Finesse, a 100% digital hearing instrument specifically designed for patients transitioning from non-WDRC analog or programmable instruments into a digital platform. Many patients reject other digital instrumen

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Power Batteries

Energizer®, recently introduced an increased volume size 10 battery. The Energizer® Amplifier® offers enhanced power designed to operate high-drain digital devices, as well as traditional hearing aids. It will be offered in Energizer Amplifier s

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Balanced Hearing Features

Oticon Inc, Somerset, NJ, offers the Gaia, which provides a balance in hearing by combining speech intelligibility and comfortable sound quality in one instrument by merging a range of dedicated features including OpenEar Acoustics, the Gaia ra

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