Hearing the TV with hearing aids

I tried the comfort duet hearing devise. the audio quality was far, far better than my octicon excite (digital) hearing aids. problem with comfort duet was limited range of audio reception due to tethered mic, & probably range of mic. I keep asking my audiologist why my hearing aid perception is poorer than analog.
best answer i get is hearing aids amplify & compress the various frequencies. all this digital tweaking often distorts some of the frequencies. bottom line audiologist cant or wont do any more. says its my severe loss thats limiting any more fixing.
why listening devices sound better to me is never answered.
I use octicon excite hearing aids. they have a program called genie, which allows for fine tuning programming octicon aids. I download the program but dont know enough about audiology programing to use it. where can I find a tutorial that a layman can use on the genie / octicon that would give me a shot at subjectively finding a fix? If I cant get help any other way, perhaps some trial & error tweaking is worth a try.

I purchased a set of headphones - Avantree - from Amazon @ about $90. I can listen without distracting peripheral noise at any volume level I choose. Works very well.

There are many products out their, always wise to check around for quality and price .

I feel your frustration. While I don't have an answer for you, I wonder how skilled your audiologist is at programming those high quality Oticon hearing aids? Did you have real ear measurement (REM) done? The newer digital hearing aids are complex. Here's a Dr. Cliff video about REM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSQemYlC80

Fine tuning these devices is difficult. It really seems that the pros, the audiologists who have doctorate level degrees, should be willing and able to work with their clients to get the absolute best possible programming.

When I reached the point with my hearing aids that you describe, I decided to see if I qualified for a cochlear implant. I did, and I went for it. Only regret is not doing it sooner as it's been a huge boost to me.

my audiologist is VA , I assume qualified?? The problem as I see it is it takes time to zero in on fine tuning , easier for audiologist to use software program which works but may not be accurate enough. when HA system compresses & amplifies specific frequency , there is a timing element that needs to be addressed. How long does the compress last. not being able to fit the specific /right frequency compression time can cause distortion. from what little i know , you would need to carefully check small chunks of frequencies where there is compression to get the timing just right. audiologist dont do it. too time consuming??? so sounds like this is something that you could do for yourself. tweaking until it the frequency sounds better. I think the genie program might facilitate this. but where do you find info a layman can use????

These are very interesting questions to me. I too have a feeling that what my audiologist does is too quick, too prescribed and too pre-programmed to allow me to hear without distortion - especially music! I once heard a story about a musician and music teacher who was not able to listen to music on MP3s, because he could hear “only the notes, not the spaces between the notes” because of the compression of the sound in the MP3 format.

I think some of our technology does not serve us well, because of the general demand to save time and space rather than to take care to preserve quality and nuance. It seems that may be what is being done with hearing aid technology. It very broadly serves the purpose of allowing us to hear speech fairly well in optimum circumstances, but it doesn’t seem to serve to help everyone to hear the world and its sounds as well as they can within their own particular limitations.

I have mild moderate hearing loss and like these Sennheiser headphones for listening to TV without my hearing aids on. Both analog and digital models are shown. With two sets you can have one rechargeable headset charging on the cradle while using the other headset. The headset is very comfortable for hours of listening. The roving range is much better than Bluetooth. If your TV does not have the RCA or 3.5mm audio output connectors, an optical to RCA or 3.5mm adapter is inexpensive for TV optical audio output connectors. The analog FM wireless headphones use the 900 MHz band so no interference with the 2.4 GHz WiFi band is possible. The W model is digital Bluetooth (2.4 GHz band). (Electrical Engineer tested analog FM model (me!))
https://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-Headphones-Crystal-Clear-Lightweight-Transmitter/dp/B0B7P9R373/ref=sr_1_6?crid=35AATEDP2131T&keywords=sennheiser%2Bwireless%2Bheadphones&qid=1677501587&sprefix=seinnheiser%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-6&th=1

I have severe hearing loss. my Sennheiser 840 TV LISTENER (ancient) sounds WAY better than my digital hearing aids.

My friend has a thing called a Phonak which hooks up to his tv and brings the sound into his hearing aids. He says he can hear perfectly. I think there may be other similar
things. My Bernafon aids have a similar thing. Theses are not cheap. You can Google for more info. I have not done it but may in future.
Ainsleigh

Yes, those things are called TV Streamers. Most of them use Bluetooth to stream sound from the TV to hearing aids. So the hearing aids must have Bluetooth and they must be paired to the streamer.