BINAURAL WIRELESS SYNCHRONISATION/PROCESSING AND EXTENDED BANDWIDTH IN HEARING INSTRUMENTS: EVIDENCE OF BENEFIT IN SPATIAL PERCEPTION AND SOUND QUALITY

Sockalingam R

Oticon, Denmark

Hearing Health Care professionals are constantly bombarded with new hearing instruments year after year.  Obviously, with these new instruments, novel advanced signal processing technologies are introduced.  Wireless synchronization and processing between instruments, and extended bandwidth are two such examples of new technologies that currently feature very prominently among manufacturers. These technologies, however, will not be embraced by the savvy dispenser or end user unless there is clinical evidence that demonstrates their benefit.  This presentation aims to walk the audience through some  of the evidence via three separate studies; two on the benefit of wireless synchronization and processing between instruments on spatial perception and sound quality, and one on the effect of extended bandwidth on sound quality preference for speech and music.