EarCentric EasyCharge OTC Hearing Aids for Seniors (Pair), Rechargeable Behind-the-Ear BTE with Noise Reduction, Desktop Charger and Portable Charging Case, Up to 12 Days Battery, Beige

1st day. Just registering now as instructed. Instructions are really good. Was simple to set up. They give you so many different cones to ensure a good fit. Although Iteied them all, I personally didn't a different cone, as the original fit perfectly.When I turned them on, I could hear everything around me; the T.V., my husband's every word without asking him to repeat...haha. I had my husband walk into the other room while talking to me and I could still hear his lovely voice so clearly. In fact, he will have to get used to lowering his voice to a normal level as he is too loud now...haha!The TV level went from 80 doen to 25. I even heard my stomach growl. 😁3rd day...My brain is still getting used to hearing everything around me but I'm sure it wont take long to get used to. I went from not hearing much to hearing everything and it feels a bit funny Certainly not complaining. The hearing aids feel very comfortable in my ears as I have worn them for 3 days now. Every once in awhile, I want to scratch my ears but Im sure that will subside as well.The only time that I heard whistling was when I was trying out different cones for fit. I havent ever heard any squealing.These aids have absolutely changed my life.The quality of the aids and the sound was actually surprising to me. I didnt expect them to be such a good product. I am so pleased that they have such a good product for an affordable price.In 3 days, the quality of my life has changed dramatically. My family is thrilled.I will update my review once I go out in public; church, restaurants, etc.Thank you for making these available to us.

5 stars — Game changer for my dadI took my dad to the ear doctor and he needed hearing aids. As most people know, hearing aids aren't covered by insurance, or barely covered. We were looking at $1,000+ for a decent pair .I put my dad's hearing test results into ChatGPT and was matched with Earcentric. I can't tell you how amazing these are. He can actually hear us now. No more frustration, no more loud TV, no more shouting just to have a conversation. They’re rechargeable, great size for his ear canals.The cost, the comfort, and the personalization are incredible. Your product is amazing - thank you so much. We'll definitely be back.

These are obviously much less expensive than many such devices and around 1/10 of the cost from an audiologist (including their fees). I have some significant loss in the upper frequency’s of my hearing. I am male, age 72 - It’s about typical. It means that high voiced, soft spoken female speakers are hard to understand, especially if there is a noise like the TV on.The Good:The sound quality is pretty good and the noise level isn’t objectionable.I can better understand people’s voices with these.They are relatively easy to set up and control - There are few settings.Although, as you would expect the high (treble) notes are accentuated, music is still enjoyable - the bass notes still come through.I still have decent directionality of my hearing - I can tell what direction the sounds I hear are coming from.The Bad:The default earpieces (red card photo) are small and the tube it attaches to is very small. I had used these a few weeks and one night on taking off my hearing devices, one of the little silicone ear buds that goes into the ear canal came off and stayed in the ear canal. Perhaps I pushed it in too far. In any case I couldn’t get it out, nor could my wife see it. I had to go to an urgent care facility the next morning to have it removed from my ear. While I admit I may have inserted the bud too far into my ear canal, this was kind of scary until it was removed. The root problem seems to me that the default earbud needs to be in fairly deeply to work well, but it can go in easier that it comes out if you go in too far.After I had the ear bud removed, I waited a day and then used the larger tubes and earpieces (yellow background photo) that also come with the device (aparantly for those with more serious hearing loss). These have the advantages of an ear bud that doesn’t have to go all the way into the ear canal to get decent results and the tubes are bigger and easier to work with. (By the way a common pipe cleaner does a good job of cleaning out these tubes).After changing over to the larger earpiece tubes and buds, the devices are a bit more visible than with the default tiny tubes, but it looks to me like hopefully I won’t have to take another trip to the urgent care facility again to get the bud removed from my ear canal.By the way - earwax can be a problem with any hearing device. I carefully clean my ears every night with a Q-Tip (be very cautious) and even so, a little earwax can get into the earbud and tubes and if it does, it will block the sound - especially with the default tiny tubes unless you clean them daily.Update ~ 1 1/2 years Later:I have had no real problems with these since I switched over to the larger hearing tubes and earbuds. They work and are simple to use. I have wanted a Bluetooth version like this and have tried a couple of competing products with Bluetooth. I wanted that to be able to listen directly to my phone for calls or music and to be able to set up the hearing aid response via Bluetooth. One worked pretty well aside from sounding bad on music from my phone (no bass at all) and physically hurt my ear at the end of the day because the shape was not adjustable. The other one didn't work at all to receive Bluetooth audio from my phone and was comfortable enough but because it didn't really fit properly it was prone to squeals (feedback). Compared to those, these hearing aids are great - No Bluetooth but they just work. This has caused me to raise my review by 1 star. Having 3 buttons instead a miserable single button makes them much easier to adjust (On/OFF and Up/Down Volume)The battery life continues to be good. It recharges in an hour or two and I I use it all day and into the evening with no issues.By the way, the larger tubes are 2mm ID X 3mm OD and Amazon sells those cheaply in both silicone and PVC tubing. The earbuds are pretty much standard and Amazon sells those too. Those simple little tubes that go to your earbud allow you to adjust the spacing to your ear canal from your outer ear for your particulars ears. Being able to use a variety of earbuds lets you find a size and style that works best for you. If this manufacturer made a version like this with Bluetooth I would buy them in a heartbeat.And, BTW - When I want to read I just turn off the hearing aids. I think my grandad did that when he was tired of hearing grandma. It is not complete silence but it's a feature.

Getting my EarCentric Rechargeable Hearing Aids was the best thing I did for myself this year. They are easy to use, reasonably priced, easy to care for and no one even knows I am wearing them. I attend lectures, church, and other meetings and this is where I have noticed such a difference. I am able to sit even near the back of a venue and hear the speaker so well. The other time that is particularly useful is when several people are gathered together for conversation such as my two book clubs or a family gatherings. I am able to follow not just one, but multiple conversations clearly.

I love my new hearing aids!! They work great. So reasonably priced, too! They’re comfortable and easy to manage.

these are great and i would buy them again. you have to work with these, they are not a magic fix, and if you can't use them, don't blame the product if you can't get used to them. there are distinctive beeps that let you know what you are doing with the adjustments. i thought how could people act like these change your life. I actually had the same feeling the first day i had one in my left ear. I still have not figured out about wearing two of them. i only use one as of now. i will update when i work out the kinks. i bulled right into wearing them all day, even in resteraunts where noise was a problem. i turned the only one i had in my ear all the way down, but still it was loud. i must say i was right next to the cooks station and even my wife said they were louder making conversation and cooking than usual. there are alot of supplies that come with it, i mean allot of different stuff. And if the support is right, i get free supplies for a year. We will see. Support is very nice, and you can chat or email. now i want you to remember that i only wear one in my worst ear, and it has made a huge difference in appreciating everything. the third day i wore them for praise band practice, that was great, there were two other guitar, three singers, and a flute. it was to loud at the beginning, but they are easy to adjust. a rocker switch for volume and a 2-program switch, the different programs are interesting, but i just use the one that works the best for me. that's what i am trying to say, if you work with learning how they work and how to adjust them, you will be amazed like i am. And i don't wear them all the time in the house or certain activities i won't wear them for like target practice. I was even told by support that i should wear two. i am getting very favorable results wearing only one, but eventually i will try and figure out wearing the both of them. i had times when i got high pitched squeals when i had the adjusted two high, but quickly reduced the volume. instead of paying 500 to 1000 dollars for a pair, i got these with a amazon prime early deal with money of the original price. if i can be of any help to answer any questions, feel free to write me. i still feel wonderful about the purchase and i am excited every time i put the hearing amplification device in my ear.

I've been trying to save the $1900 to buy the Phillips hearing aids from Costco. I had tried them while I was in the store and I was truly amazed on what & who I could hear (at the same time)!Life keeps getting in the way and Joe Biden certainly isn't helping me reduce my monthly expenses to make it easier to buy the hearing aids!I figured for $200 I'll try these, if they stink like the others I tried from Amazon I could just return them.I actually like these. I can "hear" the difference between using them and not using them.These are NOT as good as the set for $1900, but it's hard not to appreciate the benefits of having them for just 1 tenth of the cost.It's hard to leave an honest review with the good & the bad because these are so affordable (in comparison).These are much smaller than the Phillips brand, which is also a nice surprise.The dislikes are pretty few also:I can turn the up, but that also increases the white noise, not just isolating voices.I can't determine if there's any difference in clarity or crispness between the 2 program modes, they sound the same to me.I work in the automotive service industry, not as a technician. I am subjected to an array of sounds every day at work. I hear multiple people having various conversations and need to be able to discern when someone is speaking just to me, but with all the other people still talking.I hear the vehicles pulling into the building and the motorized garage doors, the phones ringing and so on.These hearing aids can help me (unfortunately) hear them better.There's no filtering of sounds with these hearing aids, some sounds are perfect while other sounds are choppy and it feels like I'm being bombarded with all the sounds with no depth perception.Somehow the Phillips hearing aids were better at filtering noises/sounds. When I had them on in Costco, I was able to eListen to a conversation between a manager and 2 employees while I was standing next to open top refrigeration units that were also making noise.I was more than 4 feet away from those staff members and I could hear every word without worrying about the refrigeration units clashing.These Amazon hearing aids aren't as sophisticated, but for $200 I can lower the TV volume and lower the car stereo volume BOTH by nearly half and still hear them as well as I did without the hearing aids.So, I guess these budget friendly amplifiers are best suited for typical home life, not a busy, often chaotic work place.On a typical day, I keep the volume at the lowest setting & sometimes that's too loud and other times it's perfect.

UPDATE #2 10.28.24 Shortly after my first update, the hearing aid stopped charging at all. I jumped through their hoops to send it back, I paid for the shipping to send back. A month or two went by, I figured I was just out a hearing aid. No updates, no nothing. Then out of the blue I get an email they are ready to send a replacement, all I need to do is send them $15 bucks for them to ship it back to me. So, I pay almost $200 for these things, one of them lasts from Feb to Aug, I am made to jump through hoops to send it back and I pay the shipping, then they want me to pay to get the thing back? Not to mention, it only cost me $5 bucks to send it to them, and they want $15? I wasn't going to pay it but, I finally did, I need "something" to get my by for the time being. I was going to rate them 1 star after this, but I'll put it at 2 since, the hearing aids do sound better then some of the other OTC I have tried, but once these aids stop working I will move on to another company.UPDATE: So I purchased this in Feb 2024, mid August 2024 I noticed one hearing aid seemed to take longer and longer to charge, till it stopped charging completely. It can sit in the charger for 2 days and barely holds a charge for 1-2 hrs. I have not dropped, damaged, etc the hearing aids, have kept them clean, and tried cleaning the ports and switching which port I used on the charger. They say they stand by their product but there is no way here on amazon that I can find to contact them. I tried going to their website, when I try sending a support ticket I get some message about rehcapta in red letters, and it doesn't appear it went through. I tried their chat option it just goes to a bot. I have a speech problem so calling them out, I guess I'm out the $200 bucks on this. I had referred my sister and her husband to this brand and they got the aids as well and they bought them around the same time I did, so far theirs is holding a charge, but both of them have had issues with the domes coming off in their ears. I have dropped my 5 star rating to 3, as I feel the battery should hold more than a few months after purchase and when you do need to get ahold of them the company isn't too easy about it, at least for me.Original Review:I have been hard of hearing most of my life, so I have been through my share of prescription hearing aids, OTC ones, and even amplifiers. After going through a few different types and brands, and hating them, I bought these based on the reviews, and I am happy to say, the reviews weren't wrong. These have been great so far. I am very happy with my purchase. For the price, can't go wrong with these. Here's what I like:1. Sound quality - these have been the best so far that I have had that allow me to hear speech as clearly as possible, my hearing is pretty bad and no hearing aid is going to allow you to hear 100% perfect but with my other aids I would say I could follow about 40-50% of a conversation, with these I would say I can hear 80-90% of what is said (without hearing aids I have to lip read, I can't hear what someone is saying even if I am right next to them and I have to use CC on tv). I have also heard things for the first time with these that I have not heard with my other aids in the past. Also some hearing aids I've had in the past have issues with cutting in and out, so far haven't had that problem with these. Some OTC aids can have a pretty low volume making it hard to hear much, or they will have awful feedback if you turn them up any. Earcentric has plenty of volume, and any feedback experience can be fixed by choosing correct type and size of domes.2. Surround sound - now this one caught me off guard. I have always hated the fact when wearing hearing aids its often difficult to tell where the sound is coming from. Some brands I might be able to tell if it was left or right but that was about it. With these I can naturally tell in any direction where the sound is coming from....I LOVE THAT lol.3. Rocker switch volume - anyone who has worn hearing aids will tell you the little dials can be a pain. If you accidentally scratch near your ear you may hit it, sometimes if you don't move them just right they crackle or cut the sound out completely, and if you wear glasses sometimes they will hit the dial. I hate the dials lol. These have rocker switches....SO much easier and no worries about accidentally bumping them and even if you somehow managed to do that they are easier to readjust than the dials are.4. Comfort - they are very comfortable, and that is a big deal for hearing aids, if they hurt your not gonna want to wear them.Battery life - no complaints, they charge as they should and hold the charge as expected.TIPS:I found that my right ear accepts a small dome better, and my left took a med one. When I tried to use a small dome in my left ear the hearing aid had alot of feedback (squealing). Moving up one size fixed that.I pretty much scanned the manual as I know the drill, worn various kinds for years. But I didn't notice them mentioning this in the manual so one thing to be mindful of is when you change out the dome either to clean them or change the size, make sure to push them on properly. The way I know on any hearing aid the dome is on is by running my finger over the hole opening after I push it on, if its very smooth and I don't feel a slight ridge or lip, I know it didn't get on all the way.As with any hearing aid, you'll have to learn to get used to how they sound. Aids are like new shoes, regardless of brand you have to give it time for things to start sounding more natural to you. At first things may sound "tinny" or "loud". I didn't have that issue much with these as I'm used to wearing hearing aids, but I did notice at first when I heard running water it sounded like crackling paper or crackling fire, but after wearing them for a bit that went away as I became more used to them.I am very happy with my purchase. Even talked my sister into ordering these.