[Superman]

COSTCO is your friend. Quality is high, prices are great and they program the hearing aids according to your personal hearing profile. Across several frequency bands. They do this for free, but the devices themselves run about $1600. You would pay around $4K for these anywhere else. Mine are Rexton brand. There are several other brands. Using my phone, I can program the directionality. That is....I can program them to listen in a 360-degree circle. Or, when sitting at a restaurant table, I can program them to focus on the person sitting across the table from me and ignore the rest of the room. This is a nice feature.

Hearing loss tends to occur at the higher frequencies. speech contains a lot of information in the mid and high frequencies, where the hearing loss exists. When I went to Costco for a (free) evaluation, I was not trying to solve a problem. I suspected hearing loss, and just wanted to know. I'm glad I did. These devices are helping me.