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Hear Everything with the Ceretone Beacon OTC Bluetooth Hearing Aids
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May 29, 2025
We live in a noisy world so it's unsurprising that our hearing suffers. Aging impacts hearing too. If you have mild to moderate hearing loss, the Ceretone Beacon Self-Fitting Bluetooth OTC Hearing Aids might just change your life. Tech expert Dave Taylor examines them in detail, including a demonstration of the audio pickup for phone calls (yes, you can use them as Bluetooth earbuds too, as needed). Check it out at: https://ceretone.com/products/core-one-otc-hearing-aids#utm_source=KOL&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=Dave_Taylor Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ 0:00 Introduction 1:43 Charging Case Details 2:42 What's Included 4:22 Getting Used to Hearing Aids 5:52 Ceretone App Demo 9:41 Phone Call Demo 10:28 Final Thoughts #ceretone #hearingaid #hearingaids #otc #beacon #askdavetaylor
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these over-the-counter hearing aids have
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some pretty cool features let's check
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them
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out Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about hearing because it's surprising
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how many people have some level of
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hearing loss and as you get older like
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so many of your senses your hearing
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tends to degrade so when you get to be a
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certain age then odds are better than
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you have hearing loss than that you have
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perfect hearing not a problem used to be
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you had to go to the doctor and get very
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expensive hearing aids but now we're in
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an era of over-the-counter hearing aids
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which means the prices have come way way
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down and they actually offer more
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features like these let me pull one of
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these out so you can see this is the
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serotone beacon over-the-counter hearing
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aids and they are simple straightforward
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to work with they are both Bluetooth and
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Standalone hearing aids which means that
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they have a lot of great functionality
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and they're also what's known as
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receiver in Canal what this means is
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that this portion goes behind your ear
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and then this portion actually goes in
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your ear so for example blue means left
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and I'll put this one in it's in it's
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ready to go and and I can already hear
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my voice better because this hearing aid
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automatically turned on when I pulled it
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out of its charging case now I'm going
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to put it back in the charging case just
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so they are both in there and as you can
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see the charging case is pretty hefty
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but it is a pretty cool feature too
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let's get there though first off this
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offers 15 hours of battery life with
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just your hearing aids and then you can
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put it in this charging case for three
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more charges which means you have a
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total of 60 hours of aid for your
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hearing when you do need to charge it
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there's USBC on the back and there's a
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USBC to usba cable to make charging
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really easy and one of the things it did
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when I first put this in is it has a
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built-in UV cleaning or ultraviolet
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cleaning and what that means is that
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it's like a disinfectant so it is a
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really great feature to make sure that
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every time you pull them out they are
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basically like bacteria
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free why wouldn't you want a feature
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like that so they are known as r i or
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receiver in Canal and so here's the one
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that's red and red means it's for my
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right ear and therefore blue not being
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red is for my left ear you can figure
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that out it comes
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with six different different ear tip
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Styles there's three sizes of open and
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three sizes of closed and I will tell
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you it is really really worthwhile for
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you to experiment with different sizes
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to find the style and size that works
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best for your ear canal especially if
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you're going to use them to listen to
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music or programming off of your
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Bluetooth Source then getting that right
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size fit is going to make a world of
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difference in music quality now the
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devices themselves have 11 volume levels
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that you can adjust on the unit itself
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or in the app I'll give you demo of the
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app in a minute we'll have get there it
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also has four environmental settings and
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this is so great for the hearing aids is
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that there's the normal mode which tends
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to give a lot of brightness as we audio
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people would say so all the highs are
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just a little bit Amplified which of
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course makes people's voices much easier
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to hear but you don't always want that
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so the other environments that they
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offer are restaurant outdoors and live
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music or just music in general and I
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think that it's great to have those so
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if you're in an environment where it's
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noisy not only can these help you hear
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the people around you but they can also
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lower the ambient and environmental
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noise too so that's a big win now one of
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the things the company warns you let's
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see it is uh uh here we go is that it's
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going to take a while for you to get
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used to these this is true of all
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hearing aids do not get these take them
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out of the box put them in your ears and
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then say I'm ready for 6 hours of
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listening and it's going to be great it
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takes a while it can take one to three
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months and what they recommend is that
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for the first week just wear them for an
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hour or two at a time and do that at at
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home so you have a very controlled audio
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environment or um and you can just sort
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of like focus on how your ears and your
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brain have to be retrained cuz they're
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hearing things you haven't heard for
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possibly a really long time and then
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week two and week three you go out and
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maybe go out for lunch or something and
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now you're in a large you know more
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complex environment and gradually work
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your way up to wearing them all day if
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that's what you need now I will also
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mentioned these are from mild to
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moderate hearing loss and there's
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actually some information on the back
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but if you have serious hearing loss
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then you really need to go to an
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audiologist or a doctor and you need to
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work with them to make sure you're
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compensating these are not for serious
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hearing loss nor are any
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over-the-counter hearing aids I think
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that's important now as I said it does
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have Bluetooth connectivity you don't
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have to do that if you don't want to but
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the advantages are enormous one of which
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is that you then get to use the serotone
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app and let's go ahead and get that
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running it doesn't offer an enormous
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number of features but the features it
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does offer are really very helpful so
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I'm going to launch the app and it is
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correctly saying it's disconnected
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because when I have these in the
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charging case they are disconnected but
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now let's watch the app and this is red
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so it's anyone any one it's the right
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ear you're correct so the way that I put
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these on let's do okay and see it's seen
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this one so I push it behind my ear and
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then I just put the actual earpiece into
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my ear canal and I'll duplicate that
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same behavior with my left ear so I put
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the main unit behind my ear and notice
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the app has seen it because I've taken
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it out where am I here let's try that
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again here we go so now it's in both my
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ears it's super comfortable I could wear
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these for many hours without any issues
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and you'll notice that it's um gone to
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different volume levels that's cuz I've
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accidentally touched the volume as I've
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done that but since they're chained this
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is really
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beneficial if I have a little bit more
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hearing loss in my left ear I can adjust
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the volume and it'll keep that ratio and
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that's really great great if I don't
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want that I can tap on the little chain
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icon and now I can adjust the right
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maybe we'll do to four and then we'll do
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the left also down to four and then I
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can go back to that chain mode and now
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they're tied together at the same volume
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so very nice now what else can I do with
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this well if we certainly look near the
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top you can see that they are both fully
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charged I can tap on devices and it
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shows me what's going on it gives me a
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fine device capability very helpful I
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can go into control and this is where we
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have those environmental settings and I
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can personalize one if I want to but
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restaurant and it's actually changing my
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settings as I do this and then on help
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there is a bunch of help here and the
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scream most companies refer to that as a
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whistle but it's the same thing is that
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sometimes when you go to put these in
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there's a bit of a feedback loop and
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that's not uncommon for hearing aids and
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so one way to compensate for that is to
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make sure you have the right size and
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style as they say the closed ear tips
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actually reduces that whistling sound I
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think scream makes someone possibly a
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little anxious and then if I tap on the
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top right then you can see what version
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it is that's about everything exciting
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like I said it's not a super exciting
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app but if I go into to settings on my
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phone and I'm in Bluetooth notice that
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there are three different devices here
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so the beacon DL and the beacon dasr are
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Bluetooth low energy or BL and they're
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connected to the app and that's when
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they work as hearing aids the serotone
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beacon without either of those the one
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that actually has the little eye next to
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Connected that's just a regular
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Bluetooth connection so what that means
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is that I can for example go to music
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and I'm now listening very nice
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listening to some music one of the
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things about it being a Bluetooth device
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is that means you can actually take
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phone calls on it which means I can give
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you a sample of the voice
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pickup now what you're hearing is my
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voice is picked up by the serotone
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beacon over the counter hearing aids and
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as you can hear it's entire ly
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listenable for the person on the other
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end and of course most importantly their
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voice is going to go through the
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circuitry of the beacon so you're going
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to be able to hear them and adjust the
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volume and do everything you need and as
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soon as you Disconnect from Bluetooth
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boom it goes right back to being a
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hearing aid really really helpful
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feature now let me switch microphones
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back and I'll tell you that it is a
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little tricky to get this all to work
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and of course as they say in the
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documentation you do have to actually
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give yourself some time to get used to
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it and I'll tell you that there's the
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sort of how to get started with it
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document and there's a quick start guide
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for you to be able to get up and running
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quickly and then there's a fairly
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comprehensive user manual on this one
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they still have reasonably big type but
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it's not as big type as the other ones
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and meanwhile I can hear my voice so
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much more than normal I'm actually going
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to take these out which is easily done
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and then put them back in their little
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charging case which is where they want
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to live and so you can see I tried two
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different ways of taking them out over
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time I think I'd get used to one of them
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but with one of my ears I pulled the
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piece out of the ear canal and then
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unlooped the back and then with the
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other one I unlooped the back and then
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pulled out the piece so so you can go
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either way you can experiment and
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practice and see which one works for you
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I will also tell you that the units are
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ip65 waterproof so if you're out and it
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starts to drizzle or it's snowing and
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they get a little wet no problem at all
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super important actually and they're
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both FSA and HSA eligible so if you have
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that kind of insurance coverage having
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these be able to be something under your
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insurance is obviously an enormous
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benefit
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even better the company offers a 60-day
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money back guarantee so you can try
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these and why do they do 60 days cuz it
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takes a while for you to get used to
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these remember you're not going to be
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able to just pull them out of the box
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and just go for six hours on that first
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day it will probably give you a headache
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but over time your ears and your brain
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everything will adjust and learn to
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appreciate all the additional sound they
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give you and I'll say this too that when
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you're listening to them using Bluetooth
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for music as long as you have picked the
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correct size ear tip for your ears they
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actually sound surprisingly good I've
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tried some other um hearing aids and
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generally you just get the mid-range but
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these actually give you a fuller audio
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experience which means that they're
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really good for streaming music for
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watching a TV show if you can handle a
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screen this small of course that your
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computers and your tablets also have
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Bluetooth so you could ostensibly pair
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them with one of those devices too at
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least you should be able to that should
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work um and so there's really a lot to
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like here and I think that this whole
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segment is really exciting because the
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whole idea that instead of having to
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pay3 to $5,000 for hearing aids and
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having to go to the doctor being able to
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have these self-fitting hearing aids
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where you can just do it all in the
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privacy of your own home and they're
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very discreet when you wear them and
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they are at a really good price so lots
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to like here these are pretty slick in
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fact let's talk about the price before
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we get there though I'm going to ask you
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hope that you did excellent these are
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the serotone beacon over-the-counter
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hearing aids and they are
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$599 at serotone decom now when you
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think about that price think about what
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would it be worth for you to be able to
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hear everyone again and hear everything
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and when you have your child or your
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grandchild over and they're talking very
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softly and you can still hear them how
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wonderful that's all I got hope to catch
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you in my next video
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