Audien ATOM Rechargeable Hearing Amplifier to Aid and Assist Hearing, Premium Comfort Design and Nearly Invisible

What is amazing about these hearing aids is how it works. It works extremely well. I never had hearing aids that would stay in my ear, not fall off my ear, and be comfortable all day.These are extreme quality, sophisticated digital hearing. Now I can hear myself type at the keyboard and people can no longer sneak up on me, can hear a cricket a mile away feels like. I can hear the freezer, refrigerator, and heater running all at the same time! OK, it works. I worried that the nylon wire might break but don't worry, if it did, you can still reach your hearing aid and take it out and don't worry about the dome getting stuck in your ear. It is on quite hard, cannot easily pull it off, for those worried about getting it stuck in your ear.Now, let's get to the reason why you want this. If you are like me and I had sonar hearing in the Navy one time, you are being plague with sounds and Wi-Fi causing problems everywhere you go. That is another subject. This Audien Hearing Aids helps with letting you hear people talk in a noisy environment and talking to a few people. I like that! Oh yeah, I might also say that music is AGAIN awesome.I have tinnitus and other hearing problems in my left ear. Maybe from putting a cue tip in my air one time, who knows? Hearing is delicate, so be careful with cue tips, as the explosion in your ear from touching it too hard feels like lightning struck. Anyway, my left ear has been diagnosed to have tinnitus. This Audien device allows my left ear to hear even better than my right ear.Now I will be honest here, there is no miracle cure for tinnitus or why it comes and goes, louder and less sometimes. I will tell you that wearing these you will almost forget about the tinnitus because all noises will be coming back to you and the background noise almost canceled out. As we age, this becomes more important.As my Neurologist would say, the brain has to adapt, and it will adapt. I see by the reviews that people either love these hearing aids or they don't. What I have to say about that is it takes a bit of getting used to. One is that there is something in your ear. The 2nd is setting the settings right. Do only a few ticks to the right of the volume when you set it first time. Don't go all the way up, you will blow your ear out.I do 3 ticks from the left going clockwise. I keep it there for my left ear. I love it. I worry about the cleaning going forward, but I think you can wear it for a while before it needs a good cleaning. They give replacement domes and clear instructions. I am not delicate with anything, so be sure that these are amazingly strong, but treat them with care. That is hard for me, but I figured it out.The final thing is I am not sure if this has noise-cancelling or not, but I will tell you it clarifies sounds and any ear problems with internal sounds coming from tinnitus or ear problems will be lessened to a great extent. Now, I am not a Doctor or Neurologist like I go to, but I will say that my Neurologist and primary care doctor, not to mention my Cardiologist all recommend it, as to be able to hear is less stressing.The key is to get used to the canal. It only goes in so far and the tip (dome) will not fall off. Lastly, the support is awesome. I got one that had a defect. It happens. Giovanni gave me excellent support and stayed at his work past 6:00PM and helped me for almost an hour. He could have gone home. I am on the East Coast and forgot about the time difference. He replaced the defect. I have never in my life seen support this good! I no longer need $2,000 to $8,000 hearing aids for my left ear. The USA government has now made it legal for OTC hearing products, and I wish they would do that with other stuff. The fact is these are comparable to expensive ones and the technology is awesome and superior to analog, in my opinion, of course. I wrote a more lengthy review as I am highly impressed with these hearing aids. I have had other digital hearing aids that were a disaster. These work and the support is there if you need it.

Purchased the Audien Atom (entry level model) for a very reasonable price. Well packaged with clear instructions - I was up and running within 10 minutes of getting the batteries charged. Really with the videos it is easy to set up. The device seems to be well designed the different sized ear buds allow you to fit it to your ear. The two devices look very small but I ended up using the smallest ear buds -- this surprised me because I am not a small person. They do amplify the sound well -- in fact as well as a $1600 set of hearing aides I purchased from COSTCO two years ago. Those were more sophisticated and allow fine tuning of the sound and also had Blue Tooth which is so great for hearing aides -- but they were the over-the-ear type and that does not fit my life style with wearing glasses and doing exercises in the gym.. I think the sound with the Atom is quite clear and clean for such an inexpensive unit. There is only one hearing program but it seems well designed because I have used in both indoors (large rooms & small rooms, at my computer, in my car, and even talking on the cell phone -- so far it is working quite well -- especially considering the price. It works well outdoors too -- I am hearing high pitched birds like Cedar Waxwings and wood warblers with this device in my ear. Does give a lot of feed back if you put your hand to your ear but this has not caused and issues for me. If I continue to like this base model I may upgrade to Audien's more advanced models with more sophisticated programs.On May 30th , two weeks after purchase I decided that the Atom would not work for me because my right ear canal is too narrow. The Atom was constantly working its way our of the canal and I was afraid it would fall out sometime and I'd lose it. I contacted the Audien customer support and they offered to exchange my Atom hearing aides for a pair of their top-of-the-line Atom 2 Pro hearing aides and they also waived the up-charge so I am getting a set of more sophisticated and expensive model hearing aides for no additional money! I say, hard to beat customer service like that? No company can please everyone all the time but for me Audien has been GREAT.