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@contentandwell

@mahnrut If you think you may get new hearing aids, wait just a tiny bit longer. I have Oticon Opn1 hearing aids that were a fairly new model when I got them, a bit over two years ago. They were supposed to be a big improvement on clarity for people who had problems with that, and I am one of them. They were better than my previous hearing aids for that function.
They are coming out with a new one though, Opn S, which is supposed to be a 15% improvement on clarity. Since these are not yet even two and half years old, and the cost of hearing aids is so high, I won't be getting new ones yet. I sure wish I could though. If you can wait more than just a tiny bit, I would wait even longer until the audiologists get some experience with this new model. I was one of the first people who my audiologist prescribed the Opn1 for and it was a learning curve for both of us.

I am part of a group on Facebook that is for people with Oticon hearing aids. It's a private group but you can request to be in it, and I don't think they turn anyone down unless they feel it is someone trying to sell something. It is run by people who wear these hearing aids, not professionals, but I guess Oticon is allowed to post there which is how I discovered that they were coming out with a new HA.
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Thanks @contentandwell for the info on the new Oticon coming to market. My audiologist is very keen on Oticon so I imagine he will know about it. It is good to think that there may be some improvement in word recognition which must be the goal of hearing aid manufacturers. But isn’t that difficulty due to damage to the auditory nerve (through aging in my case) so it would be interesting to know technically how they address that if when you say clarity you mean word recognition.