Posted Monday December 11, 2023
Australia's National Acoustics Laboratories (NAL) has produced a handy guide describing the technology behind each feature, in a clear and concise way, as a handy resource to understand how your hearing aids work.
For example, sound quality “provides a more natural sound or increases awareness and access to sound”: ‘high fidelity sound’ means hearing aids are capable of delivering very high or low pitches, or very loud or soft sound levels; ‘frequency shaping’ “fits the sound to your hearing loss so sounds are more natural”; ‘frequency lowering’ “changes the pitch of some sounds so you can hear them more easily”; and the microphone picks up the sounds around you while the receiver, a tiny speaker, sends sound into your ears.
You can download the guide below.
