Hearing Aid Service and Repair

Providing experienced hearing aid service/repair and cleaning for Greater New Bedford/N. Dartmouth, MA and Plymouth, Massachusetts.

If your hearing aid has stopped working or if you sense that something is wrong, we'll get it working again. We are experienced in the repair and cleaning of all types of analog and digital hearing aids. We understand that proper function of your hearing instrument is extremely important, and we'll expeditiously repair your hearing aid as fast as possible.

Hearing Aid Technology

All hearing aids, including digital hearing aids, are made up of a microphone, a receiver, and an amplifier. The arrangement of these components and type of components determine how you hear with a hearing aid.

The least complex amplifier is a fixed analog signal processor. The sound is taken in through the microphone and amplified by the signal processor. The signal processor determines how much the sound is amplified, the slope the sounds are amplified, and the overall output of the hearing aid. The amplified signal is converted to sound. The amplified sound can be modified and noise eliminated using low cut and high cut-off filters. This is possible with fixed analog filters and amplifiers to help better shape the sound to better fit your hearing loss. However, these are difficult to add to the small completely-in-the-canal analogue hearing aids and the shaping of the sound will not completely match the pattern of the hearing loss.

The next technological step is a programmable analog signal processor. This amplifier works in much the same way as the fixed amplifier. However it can be shaped and tuned via a computer connection which makes it possible to adjust even the smallest of hearing aids. Typically there are controls to adjust high cut, low cut, gain, output, and compression. These are far superior hearing aids to the hearing aids of 10 years ago.

The newest technological advancement in hearing aids is programmable digital signal processors. These digital hearing aids, features patented algorithms based on new, advanced understanding of human hearing that delivers a more natural, lifelike listening and communication experience. Unlike the programmable analog signal processor, the programmable digital signal processor is a tiny microprocessor (computer) that receives the sound from the microphone and shapes it with a computer, then delivers the sound from the receiver into the ear. The sound is much more natural in quality. These hearing aids can be made in any style and without a doubt the most adjustable on the market today.

There are different levels of digital hearing aids available with the most advanced offering features such as feedback management, multi-channel expansion, adaptive noise management and wide dynamic range compression.