Enlinea super power pocket hearing instrument with 3 Pin Receiver | Body worn hearing aid for Severe to Profound hearing loss | 1 year warranty | Novax Maximus (White)

I am an American staying in India many times. I bought two of these hearing aids and got them on March 9th, Sunday. I got to play with the settings behind the battery door and had to make changes on the computer to get the speakers to work right. Because these are analog hearing aids, they will give you EXACTLY what they hear and what comes on the telecoil when used on the phone, hence the need to make sure that your sound source sounds as good as possible (clear, no distortion, accurate voice reproduction, AND matched to your hearing loss or perception). Here's my review of these aids.I have two issues with these - the fit-to finish of the battery door and the trim pots. I have standard rechargeable batteries, but for some reason, they're just a BIT bigger than the regular batteries, so it makes the door bulge out a bit. The trim pots for some reason don't rotate dead-center under the access holes, so you kind of have to line up the fine screw driver with the trim pot and not the access holes. But once you get past these two issues, you will like the following.Running Novax Maximus analog body aids (Indian market) for profound loss in telecoil mode. Nothing comes close to this quality of sound to my knowledge. I'm running at < 35% laptop volume and under half-volume to one-third on the aids themselves. It puts the sound where it belongs, in your ears, just like the analog BTEs with FM neck loop or DAI (Direct Audio Input) cable and shoes did. You can see in the back that my stereo is off because I don't need it anymore.I'm buying 4 more, and I would probably buy 2-3 dozen of these aids, since I'm only pushing 60 and have no idea how long these last.The idea is that the telecoils are to be used with phones, primarily, but wow, these sound pretty good for music like this, and I have my frame of reference of listening to tapes on a Sony Walkman through an FM neck loop connected to a homemade adapter to plug into the Walkman (late 80s). It is VERY, VERY close to what I remember it to be. In telecoil mode and with the external mic of the laptop cut all the way down, there is no noise like static, electromagnetic noise, interference, etc. Just absolutely quiet when nothing is playing as far as I can tell.If you are profoundly deaf like me and miss hearing music the way it's supposed to be, then you might look at these body aids (these are incredibly loud even for me, hence the volume reduction across the board). You may not be able to find them at your audiologist's office. These aren't leftover aids from a bygone era - these were made in December 2024.Another thing is that you ought to have an equalizer, whether one that is a program on your computer or one that takes the output from the sound source's output jack, because the hearing aids don't have adjustable channels and has its own response curve across the frequency spectrum, so you have to match its response to your reception of sound. I had to buy a program that goes into the Mac's system level and takes over the Mac's default stereo output to really let me adjust the output curve to fit my loss and clean up its Mac default sound tremendously. Before doing that, I had a hard time telling apart a man's voice from a woman's voice, but now I can. I'll do ANYTHING to replace the capabilities that my Phonak NovoForte e4 had (I even have these aids with me in the event someone wants to reverse-engineer them or get a license from Phonak to make and program them).Unbelievable! These are only about $56 equivalent apiece, and NOTHING out there can do what these do except hundreds of watts of power through 20-in subs and mid-range and hi-range AIRHORNS. Do you think you won't be kicked out of your apartment with this?? Much, much cheaper and much more compact.