[nfb-db] Are you listening to music?

[Janice Toothman]

Hi Gerardo,
I agree with Sterling.  I use an FM system that connects with my cell 
phone via Bluetooth and it is great.  There are several different major 
companies that produce FM systems.  I did not know that they also made 
one to interface with a CI, if I understood Sterling.    I use Phonak.  
They call my "necklace" the Compilot.  I have never been able to use 
earbuds since I had my hearing loss.
Janice
On 8/2/2014 5:45 PM, Sterling Shadowwolf via nfb-db wrote:
> Gerardo,
> Personally speaking, I hate the earbuds. Because they draw unwanted 
> attention to your ears and they look kinda odd. I wear both a CI and a 
> digital hearing aid. And I use what's called a RogerLink Pen FM 
> System. This looks like any other FM system and you wear it around 
> your neck like a necklace. The system first needs to be parred to your 
> iPhone via Bluetooth. In my case, the digital hearing aid's T-coil 
> mode comes on automatically. Which means if I get an incoming call and 
> I answer the phone call, the T-coil mode comes on automatically. For 
> my CI, I have to use my remote to switch the mode into T-coil 
> settings. The RogerLink Pen works on both my CI and hearing aid at the 
> same time, which gives me optimum listening performance because I'm 
> listening to the conversation with both ears, plus the background 
> noises/commotion blocked out (isn't today's technology wonderful?). 
> Depending on your hearing aid type or model, I would highly recommend 
> the RogerLink Pen FM System. Talk to your audiologist about this 
> device to determine if this works on your hearing aids. It does work 
> well with the iPhone devices.
>
> -Sterling
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Gerardo Corripio via nfb-db 
> <nfb-db at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfb-db at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
>
>      HI listers
>     The subject line says it all; it's the question I've gotten when
>     in the store or wherever I'm with my family, they ask. The reason
>     is because as most of you on here, I wear hearing aids due to a
>     70% hearing loss; I've got an IPhone, and always have atop my
>     hearing aids the earbuds for the hands free piece, in case I get a
>     call, I only have to press the button on the hands free and away I
>     anser! I have each earbud atop each hearing aid if you understand
>     what I mean because my hearing aids are those that go behind the
>     ear. So my question is, do I really look Martian by always having
>     these earbuds atop my hearing aids? My Mom says I do, but my Dad
>     says that nowadays everyone has earbuds on all the time, thus
>     appreciate any ideas. If indeed it isn't well-seen to always have
>     earbuds on, then what other ideas do you guys who wear hearing
>     aids have to offer? What I'm wanting is when I get a call, not
>     waste time getting the phone out of my pocket, have to put the
>     phone up to my hearing aids to hear what the caller id info says
>     etc, thus I thought that maybe with the earbuds on the aids, would
>     be the solution? Thanks for ideas.
>
>     -- 
>     Enviado desde mi lap
>     Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta Reiki
>     Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas México
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>
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