What’s that noise? Is it an aeroplane?
Feb 5th, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Living with hearing aids, Thoughts
Whilst I was out at lunch the other day, I got a call from an old friend that I hadn’t spoken to for months. I was outside when he called - it was a windy day.
He was telling me all about his new Flickr photo sets when suddenly he stopped talking mid-sentence and asked, “What’s that noise? Is it a plane?”. There was nothing overhead and I told him so. “Oh”, he said, “Must just be the wind blowing in your phone’s microphone then”.
Yeah, welcome to my world!
He had wind-noise for the duration of our phone call - I, and no doubt many other hearing aid wearers, have to put up with it every time we step outside. My Starkey Destinys do not cut out the wind-noise at all, in fact, none of the aids that I’ve owned over the years have.
I’ve found that a woolly hat pulled down over my ears is my best defence.
Do you have problems with wind-noise or do your aids cut it out to a decent level?
you can have covers or hoods fitted over the mics on in the ear aids to try and reduce wind noise …some of starkeys higher end product ie the destiny 1200 and 1600 have wind noise reduction fitted in them esp good for golfers!!!the level of this reduction can be set by your audiologist
My hearing aids do a good job in windy conditions.
They are Unitron Moda Conversa NT
Read more here:
http://www.unitronhearing.us/ccus/people/productsp_us/conversantp/conversantfeaturesp.htm
The only downside is that when I’m wearing a hood, I get feedback from that.
I get problems with wind noise with my NHS Siemens aids too - I go walking a lot - so I hold my head away from the wind to avoid the whistling - must look wierd!
My hearing aids do a pretty good job (not excellent) of cutting out wind and the whistling. They are ReSound Canta 7’s.
I’m sure the hearing aid manufacturers will get better with this.