OPN is also designed with convenient usability in mind, with a single push button to easily change between programs and to increase/decrease volume.
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OPN's open sound solution does this hard work for you, so that your brain has the energy to remember 20% more compared to previous models – improving wearer memory in any situation.Īvailable in a number of colors to match your skin and hair color, OPN is worn discreetly behind the ear, and has a durable coating that will withstand the different elements you move through in a day. Over time, the hard work of listening tends to take a toll on the brain, tiring it out. With hearing loss, the brain has to work harder to simultaneously sort through sounds in an environment, from speech to background noise. The Open Sound Solution has been found to reduce listening effort and helps wearers understand speech with a 30% improvement (based on independent studies).
OPN hearing aids scan your environment at 100 times per second and provides 360-degrees of accurate audio information – rather than just a narrow cone of clear sound. This allows you to focus on the sounds you want to hear, without sacrificing the spectrum of sounds within your environment. Powered by Velox, OPN's precise processing captures the intricate sounds and speech within your environment, while rapidly reducing noise and providing you with multiple clear sounds at once – not unlike a natural listening experience with normal, binaural hearing. With an open sound solution, OPN literally “opens” the scope of sound in your environment. Though this provides wearers with access to certain sounds and speech signals, it tends to be a more narrow and artificial experience. Traditional hearing aid technology fares well in complex situations by allowing you to focus on one speaker, while canceling out distracting noise. To see how these providers compare to other providers in the industry, take a look at our top picks for hearing aids in 2023.OPN's design completely rethinks the experience of listening with hearing aids. For those with more severe hearing loss, particularly those with very poor hearing in background noise, the Phonak approach works a bit better for my patients. I don't see a significant difference between the two approaches for people with mild to moderate hearing loss in my clinical practice. Oticon's “Open Sound” approach in their OPN generation devices aims to provide an accurate “360” representation of the world that allows the brain to select the signal you want to listen to. Phonak relies on automatic and manually adjusted directional microphones to “zoom” into desired signals. Research has historically shown the algorithms to be essentially equivalent when listening to speech, so you really can't go wrong.īeyond providing basic loudness correction for hearing loss, Phonak and Oticon differ significantly in how they approach hearing speech in background noise. Both accurately represent the entire spectrum of speech for soft through very loud sound inputs, but the NAL-NL2 approach provides a little more listening comfort. Oticon's algorithm is closer to the NAL-NL2 formula from the National Acoustics Lab in Australia. Phonak leans toward the “maximum speech audibility” approach defined by the DSL-I/o 5 algorithm developed at the University of Western Ontario. The most significant difference between Phonak and Oticon is in the fundamental philosophy they use to calculate how much sound is produced at which pitches to address your hearing loss.
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