Frequency Shift Technology - By Phonak

Frequency shift is a new technology which restores profound deafness in high frequency losses (i.e off the chart) by compressing and shifting them into audible lower frequencies. The only company offering this is Phonak with their ‘Sound Recover’ (Widex offer a frequency transposition technology, but we don’t have quite so much proven experience or literature)

If you have an audiogram like this - then Sound Recover WILL really benefit you so please read on:

Clients with this loss may still miss parts of speech and may have even been told this is as good as it will ever get. Well not anymore! This technology was first introduced for profound hearing losses and has been shown to significantly improve the way a ‘deaf’ person hears AND even talks, and is now being incorporated into all of Phonaks latest hearing aids meaning even clients with mild to moderate hearing losses can benefit from it. How? Well, most hearing aids frequency range tails off at 6kHz due to the limitations of the speaker units, and this means you still lose some marginal parts of speech, but with sound recover we can maximise the potential of the hearing aid by restoring those very high frequency elements of speech. So, although you may hear them at a slightly lower frequency, it is better than not hearing them. This can take getting used to for some people, but is generally easy to succumb to, once the benefits are realised.

Phonak Video links on ‘Sound Recover’ - Video 1  Video 2

Here is an audible demonstration showing the difference when sound-recover is used in Phonak hearing aids - click here  (you may need to turn your speakers up!)

Here is a great testimonial by a wearer of Phonak Naida using frequency shift - Part1, Part2, Part3

More information on Phonak Hearing Aids - click here

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