Hello! Welcome to my channel today! My name is Emily and I am glad
you are on the Definite Hearing channel. Today, I'm going to do a product spec
video on the Phonak Bolero Marvel M-PR that name will all make sense
by the end of this video. I hope you stick around to the end of this video so
that you can know why I want one of these
Phonak hearing aids so badly. I do not currently wear the
Phonak Bolero but I hope to one day. Thank you so much
for being on my channel today. I hope you take a moment to like this video and
subscribe to my channel. I look forward to making more great
content. For those of you who are new and don't know,
my name is Emily and I have a moderate to severe hearing loss in
both ears I wear hearing aids they are like my best friends. So when I first
heard the Phonak Marvel name, I wondered, what is the
Phonak Marvel, is that a take on the Marvel superheroes, the Avengers?
It was just all very timely, I wasn't really sure but the name actually comes
from the word marvelous. Phonak wanted to
release a line that quote "expresses their boundless
commitment" end quote to deliver superior sound for those that
need it most with hearing loss like me. They feel that they have taken a
wide range of sound and hearing technologies and put
them all into one the Phonak Marvel hearing aid line the
Marvel hearing aids are equipped with lots of features such as Autosense 3.0,
this Autosense causes the hearing aids to adapt automatically
to pull out clear language and sound. That means with Autosense, these hearing
aids have a top-rated stream quality. The marvel hearing aids are also
equipped with the binaural voice stream technology.
This means that both Phonak hearing aids work together to create the best sound
in a noisy environment meaning that it will suppress the noise
to pull out the voice and the sounds that a person is hearing with the Phonak
hearing aids. The Marvel line is also equipped with the
amazing bluetooth technology! I have bluetooth in my hearing aids right now
these are not Phonaks they are ReSounds but I can tell you the bluetooth
technology is absolutely amazing! I can stream phone
calls and music through my ears. I can't tell you
how clear music and sound is now man! I can actually understand the words
that singers are singing when I listen to songs now! It's incredible! I mean and
I still don't know some of the lyrics to my favorite songs I can recognize the
tune right off the bat but understanding the
lyrics is a whole different story but the bluetooth technology
has made it way more possible and with the intense
power that the hearing aids have now to be able to amplify certain frequencies
that my loss needs I can hear those bass drops and those
moderate tones or those frequencies in music that I had never heard before
so bluetooth technology is certainly one of my favorites in a hearing aid.
Marvel hearing aids are also equipped with Roger and Airstream technology. Both
of these technologies are very unique the Roger technology allows a remote mic
or some sort of mic to take sound in and zip it straight to
the hearing aids so in a group or classroom setting this is
absolutely amazing because the speaker's voice can go
straight to a person's hearing aids, it's incredible! I've personally used it
myself and I love it! Airstream allows people to
stream the sound from a device such as a TV
straight to their hearing aids as well. This is why Phonak Marvel hearing aids
are so amazing because Phonak has taken sound and made it more
accessible for the people who need it most like
myself and hopefully you too! Okay and last but
not least, Phonak's biggest feature on these Marvel hearing
aids not all of them but most in the line
are that they are rechargeable! The longest charge I've seen on one of
these Phonak hearing aids according to the advertising
is one charge lasts 24 hours! Can you believe that? And because
it's a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, these batteries do not deteriorate
over time like the zinc air batteries once you
pull off the tab. Once the zinc air batteries have been activated
they just the clock starts ticking but the lithium ion you can keep recharging
them over and over and over and if the
lithium ion batteries do become shot over a long period of time
those batteries are a lot easier to recycle than
the typical disposable zinc air hearing aid batteries.
The hearing aids in the Marvel line include the Phonak Audeo,
the Bolero, the Sky, which is a children's version of the Marvel,
the Nadia which is a high power behind the ear hearing aid, and the Virto which
is a small hearing aid that is black that is an ITE or in the canal hearing
aid. It's really hard to see so I mentioned the Phonak Bolero Marvel
specifically the M-PR model. So what does the M-PR
stand for? M stands for Marvel, so Phonak Bolero
M-Marvel, dash P. P is the power so there is a different scale of powers for
hearing aids and P is power this specific power fits
my hearing loss. My hearing loss is between 65 to 80
decibels of a loss in both ears. So this P model power would
fit for me. Every hearing loss is different
though always go to your audiologist and figure out which hearing aid would be
best for you. Now, the last letter R, R stands for rechargeable. These
hearing aids are rechargeable so as I mentioned earlier,
the Phonak Bolero has all of these features, the clear
sound, the bluetooth connectivity, due to this bluetooth technology the
Phonak Bolero hearing aids can connect to
a Phonak app on which any (Phonak) hearing aid wearer can adjust
sounds and settings as they need. These hearing aids can also be used with a
roger mic. One thing that I thought was interesting
though on this specific spec sheet of the Bolero M-PR is that they
do not have a telecoil. Telecoils are an interesting technology,
it's been around for a while, but the only places that use telecoils
now, typically, are (play)theaters. A telecoil is a piece of copper wire in the hearing
aid that can allow sound to automatically stream to your
hearing aid. Essentially, it's the old bluetooth. Not a lot of
places use telecoils anymore but theaters, churches, places like that
where the microphone system is connected in a way to work with
telecoils they're not as common hence the fact
that Phonak is taking them out of the hearing aids. There are some Marvel
hearing aids that still have the telecoils in them
so if that is important to you make sure to ask your audiologist for that feature.
Thanks for sticking around to the end of this video the reason that I would love
to wear a Phonak hearing aid is because of the impeccable
sound quality of Phonak. Now every hearing aid is different every company
is different but for my ears and for my hearing loss
Phonak has a wonderful sound quality and sound
clarity. There you have it, there are the specs on the Phonak Marvel
line, specifically the Bolero M-PR, what do you think?
Is this a hearing aid you would want? What features do you want in your
hearing aids? I definitely want to hear. Please let me
know in the comments below. I'm so glad you stuck around to the end
of this video. Please like this video and subscribe to my channel down below.
I look forward to making more great content! Also, if there's another hearing
aid spec video you want me to make I would love to hear about it. Until my
next video, have a wonderful day/week!