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Topics in Amplification
Topics in Amplification are condensed publications providing detailed information about innovative new products and software features developed by Bernafon.
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Live Music Plus: For the Pure Enjoyment of Live Music
Throughout time, playing and listening to music have been universal human behaviors with no known geographical or cultural boundaries.
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ChannelFree™, proprietary Bernafon technology
Delivering amplification that adequately compensates for hearing loss is a huge challenge. No system will ever completely replace what is lost. Bernafon’s ChannelFree™ signal processing is a fresh approach to better compensation for cochlear hearing loss.
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Binaural coordination
In the past, binaural fittings consisted of two independent hearing instruments that had the potential to deliver satisfying results but did not necessarily match the client’s expectations in changing environments.
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Smart VC: A feedback aware method of changing the listening level
Hearing instruments should be comfortable to wear and should easily fit the client’s lifestyle. Controls, whether they are physically located on the hearing instrument or are accessed remotely, should be easy to find and easy to use.
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Controlling feedback in Bernafon hearing systems
Feedback control is an important element in all hearing instrument fittings. The majority of hearing instruments incorporate some means of keeping feedback to a minimum.
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Dynamic contrast
Hearing instruments are designed to reduce listening effort and provide a clear and natural sound experience. They should be comfortable to wear and respond well to the sounds around the client.
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Automatic program in Move
All hearing instrument users have very different lifestyle and communication goals and expect their devices to work optimally in these specific situations. However, to achieve maximum performance in various listening situations, the hearing...
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Setting the MPO in XTREME
For the XTREME hearing instrument, Bernafon recommends a simple clinical procedure for setting the MPO to ensure that the instrument user receives the full range of amplification available, without exceeding their comfort range...
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PRIO Performance PRIOrities
This “Topics in Amplification” describes a new approach that individualizes and simplifies the customization of hearing systems. The key to this approach is Performance PRIOrities in PRIO.
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Practical Use of Data Logging – a case study
Data Logging is a new feature that has recently become available in advanced hearing systems. The Data Logging feature records and stores data about how the hearing instrument functions during daily use...
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Multi-Dimensional Directionality
...Bernafon has combined several sophisticated directional techniques to develop Multi- Dimensional Directionality...
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Thin Sound Tubes vs. Earhooks
...At the present time, thin sound tubes are most often used in combination with some type of open dome earpiece instead of an earmold, primarily in open fittings...
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Using the Lifestyle Profile
...The Lifestyle Profile personalizes ICOS fittings by directly integrating the individual listening needs of the client into the parameter settings of the hearing instrument...
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The Revolution of ChannelFree™ DSP
...ChannelFree processing responds to changes in the environment by adjusting gain faster than any other instrument on the market – 16,000 times per second. Why is this important?...
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Open Fittings with Symbio XT
...The new OpenFit system developed for Symbio XT solves the occlusion problem by providing the largest effective vent possible and simultaneously minimizing the chance of feedback...
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Soft Noise Management
Soft Noise Management provides hearing instrument users with comfortable suppression of soft noises, without disturbing the amplification of speech, even when...
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TriQualizer™
...The Neo design team sought to provide exceptional fitting flexibility for each of Neo’s five channels of amplification, minimizing compromises in gain adjustment, without overloading the fitting software with compression controls...
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Adaptive Noise Reduction in NEO
...Bernafon’s Adaptive Noise Reduction. Bernafon has developed sophisticated algorithms that allow noise reduction to be activated only in selected environments, and in a way that...
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Adaptive Signal Unification
...Adaptive Signal Unification to the rescue! Bernafon engineers searched for a way to control the dynamic interaction of the unamplified signal coming in through the vent with the amplified sound coming from the processor...
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SoundMaster™ – optimizing the interface
...SoundMaster™ marks the beginning of a new dimension in hearing system customization. The new feature set integrates the client, the Hearing Care Professional and the hearing system technology to...
