Sony CRE-E10 Self-Fitting OTC Hearing Aids for Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss, Prescription-Grade Sound Quality, Comfortable Earbud Design, Bluetooth Enabled for iOS, and Rechargeable Battery, Black

Very happy with these hearing aids. I’ve had them for a few months now. My hearing loss is moderate. I already use iPhones, and these were made to use with them. Easy to set up, and the app is simple to use. I bought the Sony open tips, so it sounds more natural when I speak or eat. I actually cut little holes in the closed tips they came with at first. Then I bought wrong open tips, but after a bit research found the right ones. Closed tips are better for more severe hearing loss, it helps, but it feels too weird. In the app, after placing the hearing aids in my ears, I have to set the volume and hearing areas I prefer. The app allows you to reduce sharp noises, that’s nice, I put it all the way down. I like how you can select the areas/directions you want to listen or use auto/default which I can hear so much, too much. The auto directional default mode is great when I need to hear soft spoken people or quite nature sounds in a quiet environment, but it’s too much sound for my normal use. The app goes back to default every time I put the hearing aids in for the day. I wish it would stay in the last used setting. Steaming audio works, but doesn’t sound very good. I listen to audiobooks a lot, and there is an occasional echo, or somehow not synchronized. I haven’t used them to stream movies yet. Steaming music sounds sad. However, using the hearing aids to listen to the tv or listen to music out loud sounds great. If I had tried these and the other version without streaming for a month then I might favor the non-streaming capable version, especially since those are smaller. But I’m still really happy with these and I do still use them for my audiobooks sometimes. Battery life is good for my use. I usually wear these at work and sometimes when socializing, and they last over 8 hours. Read that Sony is updating to allow usage with Androids but not sure.

I was very excited to receive them.. They were expensive, but seemed a good value package, Did bot work for me at all. 1. I could not tell that noise reduction worked at all. I walked outside where the wind was blowing palm frons. The sound from that was so loud it hurt. 2. App us clunky, low on features, and not intuitive. 3. Could not hear TV at all. Had to turn volume so loud I could hear around then. 4. Breathing through my nose coughing was so loud it hurt. 5. Touching the hearing aids to adjust them created loud whistle/feedback scream.

I've had these less than 24 hours. I purchased them to compare to my current hearing aids that cost more than twice as much (and that I rarely wear). This is a preliminary review and I'll update it when I've run these things through there paces. 1. Fit - great. My current CIC aids constantly work themselves out of my ears - I've tried every type and size of sleeve available, but it happens; eating, running, talking. Anything that moves my jaw or bounces it around works them out. The Sony CRE-E10s stay comfortable and firmly in place regardless of what I'm doing. I usually have trouble with ear bud style devices due to surgery on my right ear - they tend to fall out, but these Sony aids stay. Very happy about that. 2. Setup - RTFI! If you follow the instructions carefully, you'll get these things setup fairly easily. Important - the app doesn't use Bluetooth to send instructions to the hearing aids; it uses high frequency sound from your phone speaker. 3. Sound - good. As good as my more expensive hearing aids and as good as the Eargo aids that I had a couple of years ago. Music from our house speaker system sounds good. I often get distortion from my CIC aids when listening to music or TV. Doesn't seem to be a problem with the Sonys. There is more mid-frequency boost (2k hz) than I need, but will be playing with the fine tuning for that. The aids come with six pre-programmed sound profiles (pg 77 of the user guide), but they are apparently not selectable by the user. I'm guessing the setup process selects the profile for you based on your response to the setup hearing test. I'd really like to try profile three, but not sure how to get there. The frequency response range is good 125 - 8000 hz (Eargo aids are only 250- 5500). 12 ms of latency though (vs 5.6 ms for Eargo) - guess I wasn't wrong last night when I perceived words lagging lips while watching those Law and Order reruns last night. To be fair, there is some latency built into the TV audio processing as well so I was likely dealing with layered latency. 3. Streaming. These are not go-to devices for streaming music. Okay for phone conversations, but bass response is missing when streaming music. That's weird, because bass comes through okay when listening to external speakers. Clearly the devices can produce bass sounds - so perhaps a software update can fix the lack of bass while streaming. Listening to music reminds of listening to music on those small hand-held transistor radios that were so ubiquitous in the 1960s. 4. The app. I see a universal program but no ability to select or create other programs? Maybe I'm missing something. The app is almost identical to other hearing aid apps with regard to the user interface. An ability to select or create other listening profiles in the app would be good. How about a graphic equalizer for music. I believe these hearing aids have more capability than the app is allowing me to squeeze out of them.