WIDEX allure versus smart RIC

[atmur]

hi All,
I want to get some hearing aids that have strong gain at 8kHz and 10kHz too. The WIDEX Moment smart RIC and the Allure seem to have about the same gain spectrum. But the MOMENT models have a feature called "high-frequency boost", and in the product specs for Allure they do not list that as a feature. Does this mean that the allure does not provide as much control of high-frequency gain?
Thanks for any insight.

Specs are here: https://www.wsaud.com/widex/ - there doesn't seem to be a way to provide a link to an individual doc.

 

[pvc]

the MOMENT models have a feature called "high-frequency boost", and in the product specs for Allure they do not list that as a feature. Does this mean that the allure does not provide as much control of high-frequency gain?

Pfft - All Tinnitus cures are dubious;

• A high-frequency boost that allows us to have access to extended or extra gain between 6000-10,000Hz, which many patients with very high frequency tinnitus matching find beneficial.
• Source → How Do the Signature Features of Widex EVOKE Support Patients with Tinnitus?

btw: The new AI noise reduction does work to help with Speech in noise!
Clip from DIY School Hearing Aids (v2.2) PDF File named (Big-5 Platforms Chips);

Big-5 Platforms/New Chips
Red = new chip, and = AI
WS Audiology-Sivantos/Signia-Siemens, Rexton, Widex

2025-Q1	Widex Allure	2025-Q1 Allure
2020-Q1	Widex MOMENT	2024-Q1 SMARTRIC is this a bent Signia Styletto? 2022-Q3 Sheer - Same as MOMENT but ReChargeable 2020-Q1 MOMENT 2029-Q1 Sivantos and Widex merge as WS Audiology A/S
2018-Q2	Widex SoundSense	EVOKE

 

[pvc]

I want to get some hearing aids that have strong gain at 8kHz and 10kHz too.

You want to hear dog whistles? See the yellow speech banana below;

 

[atmur]

Hello PVC,
My tinnitus consists of a few high-pitched, more-or-less constant sounds. The primary one is at just about 10kHz. If there is a chance that having more high-pitched noise reach my brain could slow down the worsening of tinnitus, it's worth a try. But also, I play piano, and piano sound is very rich in overtones - way higher than 1kHz (the top note is 4.2kHz, but piano sounds have overtones higher than that). I want to be able to hear all of that as well as possible. And actually any natural sound has high frequency content - only very simple tones don't have overtones. So a truck engine for example will have a very complicated frequency spectrum with very high sounds in it, though most of the energy is in the low tones for sure.

I'm not really worried about speech at this point - I don't have much trouble with that. My hearing is pretty good up to 4kHz, and then it plummets.
-Atm

 

[pvc]

You cannot make any DIY self-programming changes to the Allure models. See this Topic → WIDEX going to web-based fitting software