Sound Quality Comparisons With Different Hearing Aid Couplings and Venting Systems

Sonova

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hearing Loss, Sensorineural

Treatments: Device: Audeo P90 hearing aid with custom earmolds using dynamic venting; Device: Audeo P90 hearing aid with Vented domes; Device: Audeo P90 hearing aid with Open domes

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT05180630

SRF-465

Details and patient eligibility

About

Participants will be comparing the sound quality of their own voice and the sound quality of streamed music using universal couplings and a custom earmold with a dynamic vent.

Enrollment: 17 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Mild to severe bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
• hearing must be symmetrical below 500 Hz
• must live within 30 miles of Aurora IL

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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17 participants in 3 patient groups

Custom earmolds, then Open domes, then Vented domes

Experimental group

Description:

Participants first fit with Audeo 90P hearing aids and custom earmolds with dynamic venting, then fit with the same hearing aids using open domes, then fit with the same hearing aids using vented domes.

Treatment:

Device: Audeo P90 hearing aid with Open domes

Device: Audeo P90 hearing aid with custom earmolds using dynamic venting

Device: Audeo P90 hearing aid with Vented domes

Open domes, then Vented domes, then Custom earmolds

Experimental group

Description:

Participants first fit with Audeo 90P hearing aids and open domes, then fit with the same hearing aids using vented domes, then fit with the same hearing aids using custom earmolds with dynamic venting.

Treatment:

Device: Audeo P90 hearing aid with Open domes

Device: Audeo P90 hearing aid with custom earmolds using dynamic venting

Device: Audeo P90 hearing aid with Vented domes

Vented domes, then Custom earmolds, then Open domes

Experimental group

Description:

Participants first fit with Audeo 90P hearing aids and vented domes, then fit with the same hearing aids using custom earmolds with dynamic venting, then fit with the same hearing aids using open domes.

Treatment:

Device: Audeo P90 hearing aid with Open domes

Device: Audeo P90 hearing aid with custom earmolds using dynamic venting

Device: Audeo P90 hearing aid with Vented domes