Hello everyone, welcome to my channel today. If you're new, My name is Emily, I created
Definite Hearing as a way to increase awareness for the deaf and hard of hearing. I am hard of
hearing myself, I wear hearing aids, and I love them so, so, so much. Let me show them to you.
I wear white ReSound Enzo 3D hearing aids, and I have gold molds. Wow. I love them so much. I
love these hearing aids because I love that they stand out, and with a hearing loss,
if people know that I have one, they usually notice that I stand out too. And so it is so
fun to have hearing devices that stand out as well. I am so glad you're on my channel today
if you haven't already please like this video and subscribe to my channel. I look forward to making
more excellent content to increase awareness for the deaf and hard of hearing. I hope you'll stick
around to the end of this video because if you do, I am going to share my experience with ReSound
multi mic. For today's video I am going to talk about the ReSound hearing aid accessories.
There are five different types of accessories, let's get to it. Number one, the ReSound
mini mic. So this mini mic is just small, it's about this big. It comes with a little clip and
via Bluetooth it can be clipped to someone's lapel and zip the sound straight to your ReSound
hearing aids. Oh my goodness. It's amazing technology, it's just like you want to just
cut out all the sound in the space that comes in between the person, 80 feet away from you,
and it just zips straight to your hair needs magically blocking that out. It's like the best
thing ever. I just love the mics, I've never used a mini mic but I have used some open mics so the
next product is the ReSound multi mic, the multi mic is a little bit bigger than the mini mic,
like the mini mic. It comes with a clip, but the multi mic is different in that it has an audio
jack. This audio jack is magical. and this is the reason I prefer the multi mic over the mini mic.
The multi mic comes with an aux cord, like an audio cord that you can plug into an audio jack
now everything's going Bluetooth like who's using wires anymore. Well, it works for my computer,
I can plug the audio jack into my computer and how my computer sounds it straight to my hair needs,
it is magical and I love it and also I love using like spoiler alert, I said that if you stick
around to the end of this video but you kind of get it in the video, you can use it on planes. I
like to travel. And I would say I travel, like, a good amount, I definitely travel quite a bit I
didn't travel when I was younger but I travel now like I go on a big vacation at least once
or twice a year so I consider myself like yes I like to travel I have a normal life but I travel,
I love that multi mic because it can plug into the audio jack of the plane. Oh my goodness. It's just
about for so many reasons, the multi mic also has additional uses one of those uses is that
it can be clipped to someone's lapel like the mini mic and vertically facing it will catch
the sound is streaming to your hearing aids. In addition to that, you can place this multi mic
horizontally on a table, and it will catch the voices of anyone that is around you, for a group
conversation. This mic can also hook up to FM systems, where was this technology when I was in
middle school? I have no idea. In middle school I have to carry around this FM system. Now, it
was not as bad or as big as a tower in elementary school I had a tower that was probably three feet
tall, the teacher would wear a microphone and the sound would go through the FM tower and blast to
the whole classroom so it was like an amplifier, and then in middle school I had the FM system.
This was so hard because it was like, super big, it would always take up the space on my desk,
and then I'd have to remember to take it everywhere and shove it in my locker and, oh man,
those days in middle school. It was hard enough to get to your locker during passing period,
let alone having to worry about like this FM system that you had to carry to with your binder.
My binders were like five inches thick. I don't know why but I had so much to carry. Thankfully
in high school I just realized that maybe you just bring what you really need to one class in
each class in the multi mic has FM compatibility, which is amazing. Next we're going to talk about
the ReSound Phone Clip plus, so this device allows you to connect any Bluetooth phone to your hearing
aids. Now, my hearing aids the Enzo 3D, my hearing aids connect straight to my phone
via the ReSound app so this tech is a little bit older, I mean, I'm just going to say it's dated,
like people really aren't using this anymore. If you're going to put 1000s of dollars into
hearing aids, get the Bluetooth just skip the accessory. Although I have to say the mics, those
are game changers, if you are a student, like from elementary school to college, I highly recommend a
mic, but as far as this Phone Clip like I stated, only get it if you have to. The next one is direct
tv streaming. So, this little device this direct tv device you can put it in like your living room,
or your kitchen and you can stream your TV sound straight to your hearing aids. This is super
beneficial because again like TVs haven't quite caught up to the tech but like hearing aids and
cell phones. I mean, some of them have a lot of TV, but it is just nice to be able to have this
device to connect to your stereo system to your TV, you can finally watch TV with people because
you can have a volume at your hearing aid volume, instead of blasting the TV volume and making it
uncomfortable for maybe your hearing, friends or family members. So the direct tv connection
and accessory can be super beneficial for people, and I highly recommend it if you really watch a
lot of TV. Some people prefer just to watch TV instead of socializing and with a hearing loss,
sometimes socializing is exhausting, so make sure you can at least hear your TV with that accessory,
and this device the particular TV device connects up to 23 feet. So if you're sitting in the same
room as your TV, make sure you are(no more than) 23 feet away. Last but not least, the ReSound hearing
aid accessories include remote controls. At first I was like, why would you need a remote control
if you have, like, a mic in the phone accessory and the TV accessory? And I realized it's because,
like, the concept of going up to your hearing aid and reaching tip, like, up to it, especially
when you're in a conversation with people can be really uncomfortable. So this remote control can
control the accessory but it can also control your hearing aids. That means if you're like sitting
in the car and someone walks up to you or you go through a drive-thru and you can't hear well,
instead of having to reach up to your hearing aids. You could grab the remote out of your pocket
and just click it without anyone having to see it. So in the name of discreteness or remote control
is great because there are times where though I'm very boisterous about my hearing loss I do
feel that it's socially a little awkward, while someone's talking, or in my interactions with
people to like, reach up to my hearing aid and click my hearing aid buttons to adjust the volume,
because they're wondering if you're turning your hearing aids off. But that said,
If I ever do have to adjust my hearing aids I just reach out for my ear and just say, Hey,
I just want to make sure I hear what you are saying what you are saying is important to me,
And that takes care of it. It's just all about how you phrase it, so I really like that. There
are the ReSound hearing aid accessories. What do you think? Would you use one of these accessories?
Which accessory would you be, least likely to use? For me personally, I would be least likely to use
the ReSound Phone Clip plus, like I said earlier, my hearing aids on my phone talk directly to each
other, there's no need for me to have another accessory, the device I would use the most and I
did use the mode was ReSound multi mic, why do I say did in past tense, let me tell you.
Well, I lost that reader multi mic on a plane, I was so sad, so so so sad when I realized because
I used this ReSound multi mic religiously for editing my videos because when I was in college,
I would go up to campus at the library, I would plug in my multi mic to the big editing computers,
and just be able to listen. It was so much better than having to get a headphone and having to put
them over my hearing aids because one, they would feed back and two, the sound wouldn't be very good. So,
the sound quality was just unprecedented with the ReSound multi mic. So, like I said,
if you are a student or you like audio streaming video editing, I highly recommend the multi mic,
and the multi mic, I just like it because it serves the function of the mini mic and the
multi mic. I would rather get a product that does all in one than just one product that does ,
one like the mini mic does, those are kind of my thoughts. I absolutely loved that. I still need to
replace it. I saw that Costco has that accessory. And so I might just go splurge and get it,
we will see, I hope you enjoyed this video. If you have ReSound hearing aids, again I would
love to hear what accessory you would get down below. If you don't have ReSound hearing aids.
Do you have another brand of hearing aids that has an accessory that you like, or would like to get?
If so, I would love to hear in the comments below. Until next time, I hope you have a great day. Bye.