Siemens Life 500 Hearing Aids
Life is Style. Life is Freedom. Life is Full.
Sleek, sophisticated, smart. Siemens Life is the perfect fit for your world. It delivers impeccable sound quality from a small, artistically designed instrument – bringing you incredible performance in an open fitting. Its fully automated technology means you never have to adjust a thing. Including your style.
Style
Whatever your style, there’s a Life that will fit right in. Express your individuality with our exclusive Life colors and patterns for a chic, contemporary look. Or if you prefer a more subtle look, opt for colors that match your hair or skin tone. The choice is yours. Not ready for a long-term commitment? No problem. Your Audiologist or Hearing Care Provider can easily exchange your color for another if you change your mind down the road. To find a clinic, just enter your zip code into the locator on the left hand side of this page.
Comfort
Even first-time wearers will be at ease with Life. It’s an instant fit, which means fewer office visits. With its small size, ultra-thin tubing and ergonomic housing, Life is easy to wear and hard to detect – making it twice as comfortable for self-conscious wearers. Best of all, Life’s open fit design reduces or eliminates the “occlusion effect” – the unpleasant plugged-up feeling some people experience with traditional instruments. Life is fully automatic, so you never have to adjust a thing. Including your style.
Connections
True stereo sound. Delivered right to your ears. That’s the promise of our optional Tek™ wireless enhancement system. It connects to your favorite devices through a dedicated remote – Tek Connect. Stylish and powerful, Tek Connect lets you stream sound from your MP3 player, television and other audio sources directly to your hearing instruments. It even acts as a hands-free wireless headset for your mobile phone using Bluetooth® wireless technology. It’s completely in sync. For a listening experience that connects you to your world.
Natural sound
Loudness and Recognition features are built into Life’s amplification system, which automatically adjusts for loud and soft sounds, so you hear sounds as they should be heard.
Localization represents sounds as front, back, left, or right, so you hear sounds at their true source. . Our e2e wireless® 2.0 technology wirelessly synchronizes your instruments to work as a unified system so you can more easily locate of sounds from all directions.
Sound learning
Your Life hearing instruments contain programs that learn about how you prefer to hear your world. Siemens signal processing technologies are astonishing.
SoundLearning™ is a sophisticated learning algorithm that helps bridge the gap between initial fittings (in a controlled sound environment) and the real world. It remembers your loudness settings and automatically adjusts for volume, compression, and frequency shape. This means far fewer manual adjustments and a truly customized fitting.
DataLearning® automatically learns and adapts to your volume preferences in different environments, virtually eliminating the need for constant manual adjustments.Sound comfort
Siemens digital signal processing techniques improves sound comfort in difficult situations, such as multi-speaker environments, unexpected noises like breaking glass, and background noise.
Speech and Noise Management technologies in Life automatically identify and reduce background noise, while enhancing speech.
SoundSmoothing® is Siemens most effective technology for reducing transient noises. It automatically isolates and softens sudden noises (rustling papers, clanging dishes, etc.), while leaving the speech signal clearly intact.
eWindscreen® constantly analyzes incoming signals to detect wind noise, then automatically adjusts signal processing to reduce it.
Automatic Adaptive Directional Microphone Systems transition automatically between omni, TruEar, and directional modes to quiet the room and tame other difficult listening environments so you can focus on the conversation you’re in and hear speech more clearly.
Adaptive Melody Beeps are the tones that verify your manual settings. They automatically adjust in volume so you can hear above the bustling noises around you.
FeedbackBlocker™ is what Siemens calls an advanced adaptive phase cancellation system, but what you can call Life’s amazing self-control. This advanced feature automatically and quickly reduces or eliminates annoying feedback noise without affecting sound quality.
Sound Connections
You can go out into your world, or bring your world to you with Siemens Life. Attractive optional products will give you the ability to wirelessly enhance your Life—and your life—in amazingly contemporary and refreshingly convenient ways.
Tek™ is the optional wireless enhancement system that connects you to the sounds you love. Paired with select Life hearing instruments, you can enjoy stereo sound from your Bluetooth® wireless technology enabled mobile phone, MP3 player, and more – transforming your hearing instruments into a stereo headset. The Tek Connect remote control streams audio as well as provides one-touch control of various hearing instrument settings.
ePen™ is the ultra-discreet, pen-like remote that slips into your pocket or purse and gives you control over your Life.
ProPocket™ is Siemens traditional remote control for Life instruments.
Siemens Life 500 Hearing Aids
Pros:
The Siemens Life 500 offers an attractive and comfortable hearing solution with a great deal of technology. Bluetooth connectivity adds a great deal of versatility to this hearing aid that is not available on many equally priced products. Automatic circuitry controls the loudness and softness of sounds, and keeps sudden sharp sounds from being abrasive. Feedback cancellation helps to prevent the annoying whistling associated with hearing aids. Learns your volume preferences over time and makes adjustments. The open ear design keeps you from feeling like your ears are stopped up. The epen remote control is very sleek and stylish. 12 frequency bands and 12 channels offer plenty of programming control for most hearing losses. Available in a wide variety of colors.
Cons:
In our testing, the feedback cancellation was only moderately effective. Some patients still experienced feedback when they put their hand or a phone near their ear, or when they hugged someone. Bluetooth is only avaiable with the full featured remote control, which is a little bulky. Some patients found this to be too complicated for them, too many buttons! No reset button on the remote. The only way to get back to your original programming is to disconnect the battery on the hearing aids.
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