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You don't need to go to the audiologist and pay $3000 or more for hearing aids that will help you understand everyone around you! That used to be true, but now companies like ELEHEAR are selling over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids directly online for dramatically less money. Tech expert Dave Taylor checks out the slick new ELEHEAR Beyond Hearing Aids in a swanky new champagne color, finding them a solid choice for people with mild to moderate hearing loss. As Bluetooth devices, they also let you pair them with your smartphone, take phone calls, even listen to your favorite video content from any Bluetooth device (like your modern TV). Lots to like, for sure, and at a budget price.
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0:00 Introduction
1:10 They're Extremely Discreet
2:13 Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss
3:30 The App's Hearing Test
5:05 Keeping Them Clean (The Dry Box)
7:50 ELEHEAR App Demo
11:12 Tinnitus Nature Sounds
12:42 The Hearing Test
14:28 Analysis & Commentary
17:12 Pricing and Wrap-Up
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these OTC hearing aids are almost
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invisible and they work as Bluetooth
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devices let's check them
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out dave Taylor here checking out the
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Ella here Beyond let me open these up
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otc hearing aids and their cool new
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drybox accessory now if you've been
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tracking my channel for a while you're
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going to say h you've already looked at
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the LA here beyond but these are the new
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improved LA here beyond the first thing
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that you'll notice is it now comes in
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this cool champagne color so they had
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them in silver now they've added this
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champagne color and I think it's really
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nice it's also more of a skin color of
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course and the idea with these is that
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this piece goes in your ear canal and
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then this part goes behind your ear so
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it's super easy to work with you just
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slip it on top of your ear put the
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little piece in your ear canal like that
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it's done and it's already enhancing
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what I'm hearing so these are for mild
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to moderate hearing loss let me take
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this back out and they're extremely
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discreet in fact in this closeup you can
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only barely tell I have it in at all
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there's just a tiny bit of wire that you
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can see so these are what are known as
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receiver in canal or ri hearing aids now
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other companies are making them where
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they look like earbuds or headphones or
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other devices but these are sort of a
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more traditional hearing aid design and
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there's a lot of benefit to that because
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they are so invisible which I like now
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they are very budget friendly if you've
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had hearing aids or you are thinking
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about hearing aids and you're going to
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go to an aiologist then you know you're
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going to be paying thousands of dollars
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these are much much more affordable than
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that but they offer much of the same
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capabilities and they are from mild to
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moderate hearing loss so if you have
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significant hearing loss or anything
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that's like beyond moderate then you
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might need to go to that aiologist but
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if you're just noticing that things are
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a little harder to understand and when
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you're in a group setting you're
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constantly saying "Sorry I didn't catch
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what you just said." So this is where
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these can be a real benefit but they
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have so many cool other features
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including AI enhanced in fact there's a
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lot of AI in this so these are AI
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enhanced sound clarity they have
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something called voc clear plus which
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actually identifies speech and tries to
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move the sound around it lower so that
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you have enhanced speech clarity so you
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can hear what people are saying better
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how nice is that there's also AI noise
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reduction so it's trying to also get
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some of that annoying background noise
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out so it's sort of like active noise
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cancellation in headphones but these are
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also working on boosting the speech so
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they work with Bluetooth and I have them
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paired with my iPhone there's an Ella
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here app i'm going to show you that in
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just a second but that makes it a real
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breeze to work with but you don't need
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to do that if you don't want to you can
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literally just take them out of the
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their little charging case and just put
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them in your ears and boom they'll start
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working whether that's optimal for you
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probably it won't be that's why you have
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the app so in the app you can do things
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like test your hearing and have them
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modify their behavior to match what
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you're good at hearing and what you're
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not so good at hearing on a frequency
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basis before we get there let me just
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show you so the units themselves and you
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can see in this closeup there's a
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multi-function button on the top that
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lets you adjust volume up volume down
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you can hang up on phone calls because
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they're Bluetooth you can listen to
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music or you can use them on a phone
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call so it gives you a lot of
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functionality there if you don't want to
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monkey with that button that's behind
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your ear you can just never touch them
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and do everything on your Bluetooth
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device or in the app easy enough and
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then you drop them in the case and they
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charge there's little tiny LEDs that
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give you the charge status and close it
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and you're ready to roll and this should
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give you at least two or three extra
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charges when you take this out this
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should give you 20 hours of use so if
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you're going to have even a really long
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day and do some dancing late at night
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and everything well these are going to
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work the whole time and after 20 hours
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you'll be so tired you won't be able to
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hear things anyway no but seriously put
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them in the case for 15 minutes and you
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get six more hours so if they start to
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complain about battery life then you can
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just drop them in for a few minutes like
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while you're going to the restroom and
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then when you come out they've got a
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little extra time so very handy this is
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charged by a USBC there's a plug on the
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side there that's really handy and then
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it comes with a little cleaning brush
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that has a little point on the end too
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cuz sometimes yeah there might get a
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little bit grungy they might need a
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little bit of cleaning so the sort of
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level one cleaning is that you can brush
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it and stuff the level two the
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antibacterial cleaning is this drybox
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accessory we'll get there in a minute so
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also comes with additional cleaning
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devices there's a USBA to USBC charging
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cord if you need it and there's a ton of
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different size ear tips but what I
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highly recommend is take the time to
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experiment with different sizes to get
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the ones that work best for your hearing
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they will make a significant difference
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particularly if you're also going to use
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it to listen to music and you want to be
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able to hear the bass now as with most
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hearing aids they are tuned to have the
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frequency response mostly be voice but
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it does give you other options so let's
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see let's look at the app before we get
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there let me just tell you the idea of
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the drying box is that you just put the
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units in here so we can do that i'll
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take them
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out and you put them in the drying box
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and you don't need any particular
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orientation or layout just put them in
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close it and then there's USBC here so
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when you give it power it gets up to
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like 110 120 degrees Fahrenheit and
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it'll just sit there and gently
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circulate that warmer air and the idea
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of that is that if they get wet if
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you're sweaty they will actually clean
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them or dry them off I should say and
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that is antibacterial and good for
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hygiene so it's a good idea to do this
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occasionally to make sure that your
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units are in optimal shape and ready for
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you to wear speaking of which I'm going
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to go ahead and put them on let's see
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this one goes on this ear so put it on
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top and then slide it in my ear canal
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there's one and then I'll do the same
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thing on the other side that's two and I
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should say that the drybox
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accessory also comes with its own USBA
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to USBC charging cable interestingly
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this one matches in white and you'll
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notice that one matches in black so
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they're very conscious of colors i like
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that but what you want to see and what I
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want to show you is the app so let me
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get that recording going and I'll show
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you what the app lets you do cuz it's
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pretty remarkable it has a lot of cool
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features so select your hearing aid it's
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the Beyond and it's connecting and it's
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connected and you can see everything's
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really snappy now if I don't want to use
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Well I'll do that update later so if I
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don't want to use the hearing aid I can
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just tap on
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off and now the hearing aid feature is
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disabled so when it's on there's a
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brightness to what I hear around me
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because it's amplifying those
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frequencies so if I turn it on then what
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I hear is very different because it's
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also picking up my own speaking voice
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but I can turn it off I can turn it on
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whatever i like to leave it in automatic
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so if I'm then suddenly feeding music to
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it via Bluetooth off my phone it will
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turn off the hearing aid feature but as
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soon as I pause the music it'll turn
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back on so to me that's perfect and then
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you can pick it supports four different
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environmental in spaces so if you're in
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a restaurant where it's going to be
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super loud then I'm switched it and it
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actually has changed what it's doing
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it's changed what the AI is doing with
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sound to really minimize all that
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background noise i generally you want to
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leave it on
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general and then let's see what else you
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can adjust the volume left or right and
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that's important because a lot of people
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have you know hearing loss in one ear
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but not so much in the other ear with
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this you can adjust it so maybe if I
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have more on my left then my left is a
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little louder whereas my right is
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actually in really good shape so I'm
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going to just leave it like
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this i can turn on speech enhance i can
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tune it for left or right and I can also
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do a phone call boost hang on i'm going
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to have to go back here and adjust
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that turns out I don't have any hearing
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loss so it's a very interesting
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experience using a hearing aid when you
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don't have hearing loss it just gives me
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even more
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trouble um but all of this is on
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settings and you can see it also on the
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very top is showing me battery status
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and both left and right are in great
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shape if I tap on home then you get to
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see some other features that it has and
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it has some features that they're
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experimenting with like this one which
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is definitely still a work in progress
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but the idea is that hey it has a
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microphone it has a speaker that's
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giving you data so why not have it do
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automatic AI powered translation i have
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experimented with this over time with
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the Ellahir app and it's still a work in
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progress i wouldn't count on this to
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help you get through a country where you
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don't speak the language but it will at
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some point work really well and that's
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going to be really cool um you can do
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remote sound capture that's a really
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interesting one where you can actually
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have your phone be the microphone and
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you can put it say at the podium with a
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lecture and then it will actually
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transmit what it picks up to these which
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gives you the ability to have really
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like out of Harry Potter that ear that
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you can just put in a different room so
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that's a pretty interesting feature and
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then we can go on the bottom there's
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tonitis so tonitis is where your brain
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creates sound typically a hum or a buzz
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at different frequencies and the theory
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is that what it's doing is it's filling
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in as you start to lose hearing your
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brain is filling in the missing
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frequencies and tonitis can be something
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as moderately annoying as I always hear
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a tiny buzz or it could be really
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something where it's just this
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overwhelming sound and so one of the
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ways to manage that one of the ways they
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offer is that you can just have
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environmental noise running in the
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background so I might say
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C-wave and so now everything's working
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exactly the same but when it's silent
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instead of being totally quiet I just
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hear this very quiet seawave in the
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background and what's interesting is you
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can layer things on so you can say
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"Let's do that." And
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birds and so now I literally hear a sea
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wave and birds so honestly it not only
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helps you with tonitis but it'll help
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you go to sleep so it's really nice
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chill sounds and then of course you can
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create your favorites so that makes that
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even easier um but I'm going to go ahead
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and let's turn this off i'll pause that
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and we'll go back to home and that's
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pretty much everything if I tap on the
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button on the top left it does give me a
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little more options and including most
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especially the hearing test i'm not
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going to do that because that takes a
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while and really you want to be in the
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quietest possible environment to do this
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don't run one of these hearing tests if
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you have people in the background
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talking or music playing or a television
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on that will totally mess things up and
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these are going to adjust for what it
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believes is your hearing so you want it
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to be as accurate as possible i think
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it's fantastic that they have this
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ability and let's see we're back on that
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side menu maybe there we go and so um
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there's some app preferences you can see
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the little red dot on my device is
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showing me uh there is a firmware update
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and I will get to that soon so it looks
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like 1.0.2 just came out so that's also
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a really great opportunity to tell you
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that this does
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overthe-air updates what it means is
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that these will continue to improve
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they'll continue to get better firmware
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and work better for you because every
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time you check the app and it says
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there's a firmware update and you apply
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it then the device actually gets better
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so how cool is that right so Bluetooth
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streaming I can just turn on some music
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and enjoy it with these and as you saw I
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can have that where I also have the
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hearing aid disabled so it's just giving
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me music or I can be on a phone call or
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a Zoom call or whatever and imagine if
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you're in a situation where you were
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with co-workers and you're all on a
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video conference you're on camera no one
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will ever see that you have hearing aids
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so it's very discreet and I think that's
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a really great addition the app itself
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is the Ella here app and it's available
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for iPhone and Android and let's see so
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this is an optional accessory the Drybox
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but I recommend you get it as a bundle
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and it's just a great idea if you ever
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take them off because it's hot out and
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you're sweaty or something's happened
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and they've gotten wet or something just
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put them in here plug it in let it run
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until that green light starts blinking
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slowly they call it breathing so until
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the green light is breathing at which
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point you can just unplug it take them
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out and you're good to go and obviously
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this case is a bit bigger than the case
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you would get with something like um I
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Apple iPods or something or AirPods I
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should say um but it gives you multiple
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charges and so this plus these are going
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to give you potentially as much as let
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me take these off as much as a week of
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use you know without having to put any
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more effort into plugging it in or
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remembering your charging cable
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so there we go so they're back in and
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it's back
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charging and that's what I got i really
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like these i think that the upgrade in
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color is really fun because champagne
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they call it champagne it's closer to
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skin color than silver so that makes it
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even more discreet and the features they
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keep upgrading and adding to them so I'm
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confident that at some point soon that
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translation feature is going to be
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pretty wild it is pretty interesting to
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have it i was like watching some a show
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in Spanish and it didn't get most of the
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words but every so often I just hear the
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English translation of a line or a
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sentence or something and it was just
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like that's pretty cool so as that dials
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in that's going to be a really wonderful
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feature so that's pretty much everything
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I got i will tell you that they have a
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quick start guide and they have a really
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decent user manual that's pretty thick
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and what they recommend is that when you
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first get these just wear them for like
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an hour and then four or five days later
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give yourself two hours the second week
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maybe 3 hours so work your way up to
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wearing them all day don't just
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immediately put them on and just think
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you're good to go for 20 hours because
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that's how long the battery lasts so
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give your brain some time to learn and
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to adjust that's everything I got so I
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think these are definitely ones worth
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checking out if you have mild to
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moderate hearing loss and you want to be
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able to have a hearing aid that also
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gives you all of these fantastic
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Bluetooth and smartphone opportunities
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and functions this is definitely one to
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check out so I am going to ask you to
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okay these are the Ellir Beyond OTC
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hearing aid and they are
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$399.99 at
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ellahir.com in addition there is
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separately the Lahhere dry box accessory
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perfect for making sure they're dry if
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you're getting sweaty or you just it's a
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hot day or something really good really
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good hygiene here and these separate are
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$49.90 or this separate is $49.90 I
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should say but I checked their site and
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they have bundle offers where you get
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both together at a substantial discount
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so this is potentially a gamecher i
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think you should check it out it's what
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I got i hope to catch you in my next
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video
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