Review of Phonak, Rexton and Starkey Hearing Aids

By Barb Hicks

# Phonak Review:

This company is a Swiss manufacturer that provides small, lightweight and powerful hearing aids. Specializing in mild to moderate hearing loss devices, it makes hearing aids available in most skin and hair colors. These unique devices have the ability to automatically adjust to changes in the sounds coming from the environment.

Although most Phonak customers report satisfaction with their purchase, some did complain that background noise was filtered along with voice sounds.

Phonak has 8 hearing aids to choose from: Exelia, Naida, Andeo, Savea Art, Eleva, micro Eleva, Extra Unio and Micropower.

This company has received the Medical Design Excellence Award and specializes in assisting hearing impaired children. A customer review posted on Amazin.com states that he is experiencing problems having the device adjusted properly. Whether this is an audiologist error or a device malfunction is not known. Phonak offers its customers a warranty of one to two years. In addition, this customer reports that you should find someone familiar with the device or expect to pay numerous fees for several adjustment visits.

Phonak micro Savia Art CRT Hearing Aid by Phonak AG Hearing Instruments Buy new: $2,295.00 (regularly $3,999.00) found at Amazon.com

#Review of Rexton Hearing Aids:

Rexton has been in business for over 50 years making affordable hearing aids for the hearing impaired. They have a range of audio friendly hearing aids including BTE (behind-the-ear), CIC (completely in the canal) to Full Shell models. Their catalog currently includes the Revera, the Calibra, and the Targa. They come in half shell, ITE, mini canal and completely in the canal shells.

Rexton is located in Minneapolis and has been providing hearing aids to the needy for years. It offers a one to two year warranty along with a two year loss policy. In addition, Rexton also offers a programmable analog hearing aid.

Their most affordable hearing device is the Rexton Arena 1P Digital BTE for moderate to severe hearing loss at the affordable price of $319 at silkfair.com

Rexton HearClearly hearing aids set of two with remote for $1989 also at silkfair.com

#Starkey Hearing Aids:

In operation since 1973, Starkey operates thirty-five facilities in 24 countries.

The mid-level Destiny hearing aid is offered by Starkey as well as the ELI which is high end and is Bluetooth compatible. A new device called the Destiny 1600 has the ability to inform the wearer of the devices performance.

Destiny 1600 is available in BTE (Behind the ear), ITE (In the ear), ITC (In the canal) and CIC (Completely in the canal) styles, and adjusts itself automatically according to the sounds coming from the environment. Starkey was chosen as the Brand of the Month for June 2008.

Every Starkey hearing aid is programmed to eliminate whistling as well as featuring adaptability, logging, memory, autophone and low battery warning. Each device comes with a free trial and one year guarantee.

These hearing aids are found at precisehearing.com, and due to their low prices, they say, they do not list the prices of their Starkey hearing aids. You have to call them to request their hearing aid prices. - 27772

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1 comments:

SPWS said...

Thank you for the phonak hearing aids review and also for reviewing the other brands! I can now compare which is the best.

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