My husband needs hearing aids. Price from the doctor was around $5,000 a pair for the high end. Costco is about 1/2 the price. Has anyone used them and would you again?
TIA
TIA
Not sure why, but your TUG posting was initially providing no way to reply to your query. I have Costco hearing aids (my second set in 8 years), and I absolutely endorse them. A lot may depend on your technologist, though, but Costo in our area seems to have done a fine job in selecting theirs.My husband needs hearing aids. Price from the doctor was around $5,000 a pair for the high end. Costco is about 1/2 the price. Has anyone used them and would you again?
TIA
Hi Alan,......Nice feature of the Costco ReSound hearing aids is an iPhone app that plays cell phone audio directly through my hearing aids wirelessly -- Blue Tooth or some such. The cell phone app also provides for adjusting hearing aid settings (volume, balance, etc.) via the iPhone touch screen. It's convenient & gives good audio quality for phone calls, podcasts, recorded music, internet audio, & so forth. I doubt ReSound is the only kind with that feature. No doubt all the top hearing aid companies keep coming up with improvements & advancements......
-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
Hi Dean,...... I'm told they're proprietary and thus other audiologists can't work with them or make changes to them but haven't confirmed this...
My Costco digital ReSound hearing aids conveniently take the same size mini-button zinc-air batteries that worked my V.A. digital Starkey hearing aids -- the batteries in the brown packages.I forgot to add in my previous reply to Alan Cole, that some hearing aid models are Rechargeable and do not require batteries and other models require batteries.
Alan is talking about size 312 Zinc-Air batteries.My Costco digital ReSound hearing aids conveniently take the same size mini-button zinc-air batteries that worked my V.A. digital Starkey hearing aids -- the batteries in the brown packages.
That means I can use leftover V.A. batteries power my current Costco hearing aids. (Waste not, want not.)
After that, I can buy more at Costco or Walmart or Amazon, etc. -- maybe even eBay.
Is this a great country or what ?
-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
When Looked 2 years ago they had high end options but not the top, specifically not the smallest units which was what my wife wanted. That could have changed, things like this change fairly often.You might want to check your research. Costco offers lesser models, for those who need a lower price point. But they definitely do sell top of the line stuff, too.
Dave
Hi Dean,When Looked 2 years ago they had high end options but not the top, specifically not the smallest units which was what my wife wanted. That could have changed, things like this change fairly often.
This is what we were planning a few years ago for my DH. We went to the audiologist who had worked with my MIL; she had very serious hearing loss. The audiologist spent a lot of time w DH and recommended some aids that did seem excellent. Then we went to Costco...and the audiologist there said that his hearing loss was not enough to warrant hearing aids! So we held off, and now he's going back in July for another test.So I have read thru this thread.
We are going back tomorrow to the office of the ENT to meet with a person about hearing aids.
I assume they will go thru the options with us (for my husband) and then we say we will think about it. Kind of like a timeshare presentation?
After this appt we will make an appt at Costco to purchase the style that is most comfortable for him.
Does this sound about right?
Our Costco hearing department is intense. DH is waiting about eight weeks to get an appointment.
Is there another Costco you can visit? Eight weeks seems like a long time for something like this.
Dave