If you or anyone close to you is considering a hearing aid, your timing couldn't be better. The digital revolution has vastly improved hearing aid features and sound quality, without increasing their size.
Digital technology - the driving force behind computers, fax machines and satellite communications - has transformed our lives in ways no one could have imagined. It's all based on the same principles that make music on a compact disc (CD) sound so sharp, clear and distortion-free. Hearing aid manufacturers have made amazing breakthroughs in miniaturization and manufacturing that bring better-than-CD digital sound processing and advanced computerized features to even the tiniest hearing aids. This combination of technology and cosmetic appeal opens whole new worlds of hearing possibilities - whatever your age or lifestyle.
Analog vs. Digital: Adding up the differences.
Consider the capabilities of an adding machine: add, subtract, balance your checkbook. It's useful, helpful tool. Now imagine what you can do with a desktop computer: create documents, explore the Internet, handle accounting for an entire corporation. Like a computer versus an adding machine, the digital hearing aid gives you complex, sophisticated processing capabilities no analog design can match
Why do you need all this processing power in a hearing aid? Because the sound most people want to hear better is the human voice - and the human voice is one of the most complex sounds in the world. Digital hearing aids give you unsurpassed power to handle the qualities of the human voice. Digital hearing instruments give you more of this processing power than any analog hearing aid on the market today.
Satisfaction Precise control of sophisticated sound processing means your hearing healthcare professional at Midland Hearing Associates can do more to satisfy your needs.
Investment Protection A digital hearing instrument can be readjusted at any time, in case your hearing needs change. The digital hearing aid can be reprogrammed right in your hearing healthcare professional's office at Midland Hearing Associates.
Comfortable Listening A digital hearing aid helps you hear quiet sounds - and responds instantly to protect you from the discomfort of overly loud sounds. This eliminates the need for annoying controls on the hearing aid.
Better-than-Audio-CD Digital Processing A digital hearing instrument delivers exceptional sound quality.
Hear What You Want to Hear Some digital hearing aids continuously monitor for speech-like sounds, and reduce the volume of other sounds. This type of processing increases the ability to understand speech in a noisy environment.