Thank you for your thoughts Tom. I respectfully disagree with you on the telecoil issue. I've not used mine on the phone for a long time. but I sure find them terrific at the performing arts centers, at church and in numerous meeting spaces. Plus, they add zero cost to the price of a hearing aid or CI processor. The only CI processors that don't have telecoils are the off the ear models, but they can connect with a telecoil via the hand held Mini Mic 2+ BlueTooth is great too, but for different purposes. Auracast AI is going to be interesting. Good to know that your providers are on top of it all. Many are not.

We are fortunate to be living in times when technology is developing. When I was diagnosed with progressive sensorineural hearing loss back in the 60s I was told that nothing would ever be developed in my lifetime to help me. "Just learn to live with it" was the answer.

It's been a good ride to get involved in the national movement to make hearing loss an issue of concern. http://www.hearingloop.org has some terrific information if you're willing to explore it.