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If you're like most people with mild to moderate hearing loss, you might not realize you're not hearing everything around you. You've become accustomed to missing words and asking people to 'please speak up' in noisy environments. Problem solved with the Vivtone SuperMini-b CIC Hearing Aids! They're over-the-counter (OTC) so you don't need a doctor involved, and they're completely in ear canal (CIC) which means there's no clunky component sitting behind your ear. Most importantly, they increase the volume of the frequencies of the human voice, meaning you'll be able to hear everything again. Tech expert Dave Taylor walks you through all the key features and capabilities.
Check it out at: https://vivtone.com/products/vivtone-supermini-b-cic-hearing-aids
or on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Qr03EJ
Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
0:00 Intro
1:17 Key Features
2:45 In the Box
4:13 How to Insert into Ear
5:05 How to Remove from Ear
6:02 Conclusion
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these digital hearing aids are almost
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invisible let's check them
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out Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about hearing loss did you know over 15%
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of adults over 20 years old have some
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level of hearing loss by the time you're
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55 10% of people have measurable hearing
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loss and if you're 75 or older 50% of
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you have some hearing loss historically
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the solution has been really expensive
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hearing aids but as of October
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2022 the Federal Drug Administration
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actually gave overthe counter approval
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for other companies to sell hearing
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enhancement hearing aids and for us to
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be able to just buy them directly what a
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huge Boon what a dramatic lowering in
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the price of giving you back that bit of
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extra hearing that bit of extra audio
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clarity so you can actually get through
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your day and actually understand people
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and know what's going on now what I'm
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looking at today is these are the vivone
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super mini B cic hearing aids let me
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pull one out here so you can see they
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are tiny they slip completely in your
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ear there's nothing behind your ear you
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don't have to fuss with an app on your
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phone or anything like that and I said
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cic what that means is that they're
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completely in your ear canal so there's
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nothing else so they're really amazingly
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invisible and no doct visit required you
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can get these they come I'll show you in
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a second with a bunch of different ear
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tips and such so you get to the right
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size for your ear canal you put them in
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and then they have five levels of volume
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that you can actually adjust with a tiny
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button on the end of this unit in fact
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let's have a closeup so you can see on
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the very end there is that button that
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lets you adjust volume and it also
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because it is actually a digital hearing
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aid it lets you adjust to standard or
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noise reduction mode it's a 16 channel
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Digital Signal processor so there's a
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lot of smarts in this little tiny device
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and if you're in a noisy environment
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like on an airplane or on a bus then you
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can actually just reach in and just tap
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it takes a little bit of practice to get
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to be able to push that button correctly
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but you can literally just lower all the
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background noise what a joy honestly so
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no doctor visit required like I said and
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in the box that comes with it let's
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actually open it up and have a look they
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include quite a lot you really are not
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going to need to get anything else once
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you acquire this so let's see what else
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we have in here so we
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have four different different sizes of
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ear tips we have an ear wax cleaning
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device we have another cleaning device
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and we have a charging cable because
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just like apple airpods and similar it
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looks like it's just earbuds and these
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with the charging case will give you 80
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hours of listening that's pretty
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impressive and when it needs a charge
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you just plug in that USBC cable usba on
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the other end just plug it in and you
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could even just hook this up to your
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computer if you need to charge it or
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something and once it's fully charged
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the light on the front changes and
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you're good to go for another 80 hours
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so very impressive now as you saw in
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that close up there are those three
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little dots for charging and all you
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have to do is it's super easy you just
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put them in so that those three dots are
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lined up with the three dots in the case
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and I just did it so I can take it out
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and show you again so you just put it in
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and there's a magnet there so it just
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falls and gets into exactly the right
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position and now the lights are showing
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you that they're charging and then when
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you want to wear one what they recommend
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is hold it by the little tiny wire they
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call it a shank make sure that's at the
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top and then just slide it gently in
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your ear and adjust it as
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needed and I'm good to go so now the
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experience of me having this in is that
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all of the frequencies at normal talking
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volume and like human voice those are
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Amplified so I can even hear myself
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talking a little better if I was in a
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noisy environment or even just sitting
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talking to a friend I would hear them
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better so it's really a pretty
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remarkable um sort of change if you're
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used to just coping and just you know
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sort of pretending you don't have
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hearing loss but constantly saying
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excuse me can you speak up a little bit
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and when you're ready to take them out
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you just grab that little tiny handle
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and take it out and then handle down you
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put it back in the case and it charges
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and you're ready for the next time you
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need them obviously you're going to wear
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both most likely but that's really it
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it's really easy to work with and my
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experience with them is that they're
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really actually pretty nice I actually
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probably have some level of measurable
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hearing loss I tend to ignore it and in
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really loud environments you know
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sometimes I just can't really hear the
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person talking to me and as many people
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know you just sort of gloss over it and
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you're like I got most of the words I
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can probably figure out what you're
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talking about or occasionally you'll be
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like excuse me or can you speak a little
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louder please but honestly solving the
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problem yourself is a little bit more
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more elegant and that's exactly what
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these let you do so really lots to like
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here if you're suffering from hearing
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loss and you're just ignoring the
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situation because you figure yeah you
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know you can't hear as well as you used
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to but that's just life that's just
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getting old there are solutions and
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there are over-the-counter solutions
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that you can just order directly from
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these companies and they have guarantees
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so you can try it for a couple of weeks
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and if it's not working for you then
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that's cool send it back get a refund
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but absolutely worth trying it and if
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you're having any hearing issues then it
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is really a remarkable change so
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definitely worth checking out now we do
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need to talk price because they are a
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little spendy but before we get there
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I'm going to ask you to subscribe to my
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channel click or tap on that subscribe
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notifications give me a thumbs up if you
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found this of value and of course I
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certainly hope you did and and let's see
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so these this is the vivone super mini B
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cic hearing aids and they are
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$749 currently discounted on their
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website way down to
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$249 at viv.com so for
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$250 honestly that's not a lot of money
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to spend to suddenly bring all of the
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world back and so you can actually hear
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everything and everybody and that's
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exactly what these offer and they do it
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in an elegant manner so that's all I got
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I'll hope to catch you in my next video
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