

Every 15-20 minutes or so, I notice some choppiness in the streaming of the sound. As much as I love the Bluetooth capabilities of these hearing aids, the Bluetooth connection itself can be a bit jittery.The good news is that it’s most likely a software issue that can be corrected through a firmware update once it is diagnosed and resolved. In software terms, this known as a memory corruption error and it seems to be triggered under very specific conditions in this case. One second the hearing aid would be on, and the next it would be off and restarting. The hearing aids have a rare, but nasty tendency to reset themselves randomly – about once or twice a week on average.

Here are the top 5 issues I’ve encountered with the Opn 1s: It works so well in fact, that I can mow my lawn while listening to music without hearing the drone of the lawn mower! It’s an awesome feature that helps preserve my natural hearing in the midst of distracting or loud noises. When my co-workers get loud, I adjust the balance of the music streaming volume versus microphone input volume rather than loudness.This allows me to hear my music clearly while my noisy co-workers become quieter background noise.

With Bluetooth, I also no longer require headphones (or streamers) to listen to music! In fact, the hearing aids even enhance the music listening experience by enabling “ noise cancellation” like capabilities by giving the user full sound suppression control. Having the audio come straight into both hearing aids has made it easy for me to take phone calls even in really loud places – I am able to turn down or mute the microphones on the hearing aids when necessary to only hear the speaker on the other end of the call. With Bluetooth streaming, I don’t think it’s ever been easier to take phone calls in all my years with hearing loss.
