For most of my life I have been a mechanical design engineer, I am now retired but I believe I appreciate a good product when I see it. I recently changed my previous NHS hearing aids and was prescribed the danalogic Ambio 77 model.
Compared to me previous aids, which I’d been wearing for about 3 or 4 years, I now have my hearing back! I have always been a Hi-Fi enthusiast and purchased/upgraded my equipment as often as I was able and as my budget allowed.
Sadly though, over the last 5 to 10 years the high fidelity once enjoyed slowly degraded to low fidelity and there was, I thought, nothing that could be done about it. My first experience with NHS hearing aids was that they were, at best, basic sound amplifiers and I was grateful that I could at least hear what people were saying but Hi-Fi capable they were not. Danalogic has changed all of that almost overnight with the aforementioned danalogic Ambio 77 series. They are wonderful. My Hi-Fi is back!
The design
At first, I couldn’t get used to the screw-in tubes as they were not finding the correct orientation when fully tightened into the body which meant that the tubes were always being forced away from their natural shape when inserted into the ear canals.
Eventually though I learnt how to achieve what I wanted by working the thread back and forth so that they would eventually tighten up just that little bit more into the correct alignment. This is a good design as my previous aids had push-in tubes which often moved out of alignment when fitting the aids into my ear. The danalogic Ambio screw design, once set never rotates out of position.
Also, and unlike my old hearing aids, I never need to remove the tubes from their bodies to clean them with a wire. This is due to the perforated design of the ear bud domes themselves. The domes on my old aids had one single hole through which the sounds passed – a single hole that, almost every day, became blocked and required reaming with a cleaning wire.
This is now a thing of the past as all I need to do now is use a brush and fingernail to remove any collected debris which takes just a fraction of the time spent cleaning my old hearing aids. ….Nice one!
As luck would have it, my ear shape, specifically the bowl in my ear seems to be a much more natural receptacle for the tag/stabiliser to fit into. And finally, the battery compartment needs only the smallest movement to turn off the battery when the aids are not in use; a small consideration in the design that makes a big difference.
Thank you for all the thought that has gone into the physical design and for whatever miracle you have come up with to make the sound as good as it is.