I don’t have the unique Elehear Past listening to aids available anymore, however I’d agree that there have been some enhancements to audio high quality—although at excessive ranges of amplification, the static and hiss points stay overwhelming. As with the previous Beyonds, quantity will be adjusted per ear within the app or with the rockers on the again of each listening to aids.
Identical to the unique, the Past Professional shouldn’t be tunable, however you need to use the app to regulate a type of bass/treble “tone” impact and modify noise cancellation (now knocked down from the earlier eight ranges to 5, which remains to be loads). Along with the brand new Music mode, environmental modes for Restaurant, TV, and Common use are preloaded—together with 4 further modes you may set your self. There’s not lots of variation amongst these modes, however I’ll say that Elehear sounds much better with music playback than most different pure listening to aids (i.e., not listening to support/earbud combos) I’ve reviewed, due to a a lot better bass response. Cellphone calls over the Past Professional listening to aids have been additionally crisp and clear.
Listening to Take a look at
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The Past Professional listening to aids now embrace a fundamental listening to take a look at, however that is actually simply in your edification and may’t be used to tune the listening to support settings. It’s a normal ping take a look at at varied frequencies and volumes, and after I accomplished the 10-minute expertise, I used to be given outcomes that said, “The take a look at outcomes point out potential [sic] listening to loss” in every ear and no steerage on how one can handle that loss.
One further function is a tinnitus mode that I didn’t take a look at as a result of I don’t endure from tinnitus. Nevertheless, some beforehand out there options just like the distant sound seize system and a built-in audio translation system have been jettisoned from the app. There’s no method to modify directional listening anymore, both. Battery life is specified at a powerful 20 hours—it’s troublesome to gauge completely however that was roughly correct in my testing, with the (naturally) oversize case offering further juice for 4 recharges.
In the end, whereas Elehear’s high quality advances are heartening, its lack of consideration to industrial design shouldn’t be. The listening to aids turned uncomfortable after a few hours of use every time I attempted them, particularly once I was sporting my glasses (at all times). As I famous earlier than, the dimensions of a listening to support could also be second solely to its audio high quality, but it surely’s a very, actually necessary second.
