Thanks for the suggestion to contact TruHearing, and I plan to follow up. I contacted another audiologist that sells Signa IX and was given the sales price of $7490.00 for a set of Sigina IX Hearing Aids. Interesting, strange why there is such a big difference in price between Horizon IX and Signia IX, if they are identical. I can only guess that they simply choose to market them with different prices for each brand.
Price is certainly a factor for me, but just finding aids that actually work for me to hear normal conversation is difficult. After one of my original pair of aids went out, I tried Oticon and Phonak which were no better for me than my one old one. I have spoken to people that I didn't know wore hearing aids and they seemed to have normal hearing. I feel like I'm the only person with my type of hearing loss. I need all features, volume, speech recognition/clarity and background noise. Horizon IX said they have all the features which has led me down the path to research them.