Improve YOUR Experience with Music: These are the BEST Hearing Aid Music Settings for Music Lovers

Which hearing aids are you wearing?

Thank you! I have been having a buzz when playing my acoustic guitar. I even carried my guitar to my guitar luthier to get it set up. He promised me that my guitar wasn’t the issue. I then carried my guitar to my audiologist and he did make a program that reduced the buzzing sound. I’m not totally satisfied with it and also it momentarily kicks out of the program and I get a volume increase when I get a notification. I will take your recommendations and my guitar with me on my next visit. I have Phonak Lumity Life hearing aids.

Thanks so much, Matthew! I'm searching for my first HA's. The ENT folks wanted to put me in ReSounds, I'd heard that Widex was best for instrumental and vocal music, so I have an appointment in two days with an AuD who has many brands available- and specializes in Widex! Looking forward to the next installment. Will let you know how the Widex appointment works out.

Very Informative, thank you Mathew. I’m an audio mixing engineer. I have moderate to severe unilateral cookie bite hearing loss, I’m stuck in a hard place in choosing between the Widex Moment Sheer 440 or the Oticon Real 1. Im very excited for part 2 of this video to be released, to help make a more informed decision.

Amazing how the hearing professional did not consider these aspects for better music experiences.

Only recently by watching a video on Rexton’s available Hearing Aids preset programs did I learn that since the Kirkland Signature 8.0 hearing aids manufactured by Rexton that a preset program called “Enhance Music” was available yet my Costco audio technician never brought it up to my attention. All she was focused on was speech conversations and understanding and not Bluetooth music streaming. When I meet her again on the 18th of this month, I will ask her why she didn’t tell me Enhance Music is available.

Is there any device that could be used in a single program that can actually accommodate both speech and music?

Super useful, thank you!

Any thoughts on the Oticon More Music Program? Does is do all the things you listed, turning off the correct functions?

Is the 330 tech level in the Widex hearing aids still good for musicians? Or should i change to a 440?

Hi Matthew, I don’t enjoy listening to music since I’ve had muffled/tinny hearing. I have a deviated septum that may be causing this.

Thank you very much for this great video Matthew! I am a 73 year old composer/producer/musician currently on Oticon Own S platform. My high freq loss is a steady decline starting around 2k and down to -75 by 8k. I currently have most of your suggestions enabled through trial and error the feedback suppression being the worst effect (vibrato like distortion). For music my Own S sound good and very "natural". I am about to upgrade to Oticon Real and am hoping I will hear an improvement with speech in noise and everyday speech whilst not losing the musicality of the Open S aids. Cheers Jim

Is there a hearing aid which provide tuning all these parameters by yourself or is only the audiologist which has the software to do so? I saw on your reviews that Resound seems to be the best in term of application? What would be your recommendation? I a practicing musician and I listen to music many hours a day. I fear I would make a mistake if I spend a lot of money and be disappointed. I have a small loss in the high frequency. Thanks for your insight.

Hi, thank you for these great videos. What is the frequency range of the hearing aids? Do the in ear provide better audio range for music steaming? I have a friend who has Signia 7X and he says that there no bass at all and that music seems to be coming from a small tunnel. Can you help please?

I am very lucky that my audiologist understands music as he plays musical instruments and reads music. I love music, I have a music channel on my aid

I'm a musician and music producer - I have widex moment sheer 440s, and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn off or adjust compression settings to do as you suggest. You can display compression settings, but not change them. I'm wondering if it's best to use the puresound setting as a starting point (low delay and combines with natural hearing), and create a music program from that. OR, I can use the widex music program as a starting point. Hoping you're familiar with this model - they seem to be the widest frequency range out there, and are touted as "the best" by many musicians. I hope I made the right choice.

Also the right domes can make a difference. With closed domes, you might hear more bass.

Thanks this is useful. For the Audeo P50s, is there a way to add an additional streaming program for music (instead of a regular program)? Then I can switch between the regular bluetooth streaming and music streaming when listening to that specifically.

Thank you very much for this video! At last an audiologist who presents and addresses the very real issues encountered when using hearing aids in a classical music environment. I am trialling Oticon Real RITE's at the moment. I qualify my comments by saying they have not yet been adjusted in any way by my audiologist. As an organist I find the 'My Music' programme supplied by Oticon simply cannot cope with long sustained organ notes, and the result is a rather unpleasant, fast oscillation attached to each note. Chords are accompanied by a buzz similar to a slightly out of tune radio. These affects not only occur when listening to recorded music but are particularly accentuated with live music. As a violinist, I find the 'A' played by the oboe for orchestral tuning actually becomes rather difficult to use for tuning string instruments, when heard through the hearing aids.

Thanks Ive watched a lot of your videos which are all really helpful being at the start of my journey
Speech has been fine but my guitar shocking the main thing being double notes/horrible vibrato effect depit having separate music and playing programs. I understand the guitar issue is common

Any particular recommendations on manufacturer/model that's working well?

Have you/will you provide similar insight for optimising TV sound?

Thanks Matthew. Really interested to hear what hearing aids are best for music quality. I’m due for new subsidised hearing aids, I’ve trialed Phonak and now a pair of Resound hearing aids, although I found that I prefer the tonality of Signia, even though I think I’m using Signia Motion which are outdated. Was keen to try an AX model, although as of recently their no longer subsidised in Australia. Looking forward to the next video.

Thanks Matthew, valuable information given to viewers in a normal voice without precipitation and tralala!

Thanks again for your video Matthew. Can’t wait for the other series videos🙏🏻