- #How do i connct my hearing aids from costco with the resound app how to
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The disadvantage of having to take your Resound hearing aids for servicing to Cost Co isn't true. Information about hearing support from Apple:Īpple's support page for using MFI hearing aids:
#How do i connct my hearing aids from costco with the resound app manuals
The place to get the manuals and how-tos from Costco:īlog post about the new aids with many comments.
You can find many online reviews that cover this aid so I just covered its use with Voiceover here. Overall I'm super pleased with this purchase.
The Smart Direct app lets you adjust volume, balance and bass and trebble, plus switch between programs - settings your hearing professional has configured inside the aid's firmware. Actually iOS now has a feature called "live listen" which does the same thing, so I still have to test whether the app is actually necessary. I do not have enough hearing loss to need this app, but I tried it by placing the iPHONE near my VR Stream, and listening from another room - worked great. The idea is that someone speaking to you could talk in to your iPHONE's microphone and you could hear them more clearly. The apps are ""Smart Direct" which gives you control of the aid and "Smart remote" which lets you use your iPHONE as a remote mic. They are resonably usable but not fully accessible getting sighted help to identify the unlabeled buttons is a timesaver though not necessary. You get links to them from the KS8 user portal linked below. For example NLS BARD books mastered originally from open-reel tapes often don't have the highest audio quality and were easier for me to hear on the iPHONE with the BARD app and my aids rather than the NLS library-supplied player. However with audio books and podcasts, especially those with lower fidelity the extra trebble made the voices far clearer for me. But I can get the audiologist to create a separate music program for my hearing aids so music will sound more natural. So for me all the music sounded like it had too much trebble. For music with high fidelity, you loose some of it because a hearing aid program emphasizes some frequencies. Actually once it is paired everything streams through it. It is also possible to stream music, or TV or audio books through the hearing aid once it is paired. But I removed that so now the accessibility shortcut now only calls up Voiceover. So wear the aids before you pair!Īnother annoyance is that though I had the accessibility shortcut (tripple click home) set to Voiceover, it now wanted to add switching the hearing aid on and off to the accessibility menu. Thus I stopped being able to hear voiceover.
#How do i connct my hearing aids from costco with the resound app how to
One hitch was that as soon as it thought it paired, but before I could choose OK, the audio switched to the hearing aids, which my audiologist was holding, since he insisted on showing me how to pair them.
#How do i connct my hearing aids from costco with the resound app Bluetooth
With Bluetooth on, you simply go to settings-general-accessibility-hearing and pair it there - similar to pairing a Braille display under Voiceover's settings. There is a tiny bit of latency with the KS8 paired with the iPHONE, but it wasn't annoying enough for me to go back to my clumsier bluetooth earpiece. For us, this means that you can hear VoiceOver through the hearing aids. On the iPHONE the MFI protocol is used - this is a proprietary Bluetooth low-energy profile that is designed by Apple, and thus only available on Apple certified devices.
#How do i connct my hearing aids from costco with the resound app android
They can use the headset protocol on Android too, but for Android, streaming is done through the A2DP protocol which typically isn't supported by hearing aids. "Made For iPHONE" (MFI) means that they will stream audio from the phone as well as use the headset protocol to make calls. Apparently Costco, which has 11% share of the hearing aid market has enough buying power to get Rexton to rebrand and reduce the price for them. Spec sheets and manuals are the same except for the name change. The KS 8 is identical to the Signia Pure 312 7Nx. and Australia and probably other countries as well.
Costco also has warehouse stores in the U.K. My American dollars price was $1599, basically ssixteen hundred dollars. I recently purchased my first hearing aid, a made for iPHONE model sold by Costco as the Kirkland Signature KS8.