Sonic Super Ear Personal Sound Amplifier

I rarely give 5 stars on any product so to reserve them for the most outstanding, quality items. But with this SuperEar, i had to give 5 STARS necause of what this device accomplished. In a nutshell, my grama is 97. She actually passed recently. However this SuperEar device imlroved her quality of living for her last 2 years. She was hard of hearing but would not, could not wear hearing aids of any kind. She was old-school in that sense and technology scared her. Anyway, the family began to notoce that she wasnt hearing well, we had to yell and repeat constantly, it was very difficult. I reaearched and found these in Amazon. I read reviews which is when and why i started doing reviews because people really count in them to make informed decisions. I bought them for her and she started using them. IT WAS LIKE A MIRACLE I KID YOU NOT. It was night and day. She used headphones which adjusted and fit comfortably on her head. You place the heaeing device out in front of jer the cord stretches 4 or 5 feet. You can put in middle of room, or front of the bed. This sound mechanism picks up sounds so clearly and so very loudly. It amplifies sound in a big way! You can adjust the sound on ear phones. My grandma turned them all the way up...this is how deaf she was in both ears God Bless her. But, when i put on earphones at that sound level it.just about blew my eardrum. So, be careful...this device is very powerful! You canceasily hear conversations from ACROSS the room and eveythijg in between. The proce is fair and i would buy them again in a heartbeat and recommend them. They are.solid and made well. They are not CIA spy level, however we have never had a problem with them not working...and we used them a lot daily. They take batteries, but it seems to power them for a long time before needing new batteries. As a matter of fact, i dont ever remember having to change batteries.

This is the second Sonic Super Ear I've purchased. I bought the first for my blind, hearing impaired father over a year ago. He finds regular hearing aids uncomfortable and I have purchased many different amplifiers over the years. The "pocket talker" was very expensive and stopped working after a short time. The inexpensive over-ear amplifiers were flimsy and difficult for him to keep on. The Sonic Super Ear has worked perfectly. The microphone is light weight and easy to hold but can also sit upright on a flat surface. Now when Dad visits his doctor, the doctor places the microphone on his desk and they can have a normal conversation. This has improved the quality of his care enormously.So why only four stars? The headphones. While they are light weight, they aren't that sturdy and tend to slip. In addition the ear pads are smaller and it is difficult for him to place for optimum sound quality. He likes the replacement I got better Sennheiser HD 202 II Professional Headphones (Black)The first SSE I purchased still works great. This purchase was a gift for the nurses at Dad's care facility. We overheard them raving about how great this was and how useful it would be for other patients.

I picked this for my grandmother who can't hear unless you yell the conversation, and even then she has a really hard time. Since the home either doesn't repair her hearing aids or looses them a lot she often just sits and doesn't interact with anyone since she can't hear.She put on the headphones, and we adjusted the volume until she could hear us. No more yelling! It CAN create feedback if you get the headphones too close to the receiver box, so be careful of that. It also creates some feedback if you turn the volume up past 3/4 of the way. The instructions warn of that as well. It still works at 100% but you have to be REALLY careful of where the headphones are in relation to the box so you don't get the screeching. Adjust the volume from off to the level you need after you put on the headphones for best results.We had a line of residents waiting to test this at the nursing home. :) a few are having family members pick one up for them to use. I am not sure how durable it is since it's only been in use a few days so far, but so far so good. It's already improved the quality of life for my grandmother.This product comes with a belt clip, a binocular clip, and a double sided velcro strip. So far the velcro strip is the handiest to connect it to a place on her wheelchair.

Although the box for this product shows a lady using it to listen to TV, this product picks up noise in ALL directions making it very difficult to listen to TV. If someone is cooking, walking around or a cell phone goes off, the amplified sound can be damaging to the ear, hardly a way to watch TV.So while it looks like a directional microphone, and the specifications talk about it being a "multi-element" microphone, when I took off the foam wind cover, I was disappointed to see a hollow plastic column and just a single off the shelf (standard) electret microphone element (the same kind used in cheap toys). This kind of microphone is very basic: Gino Small MIC Capsules Electret Condenser Microphone 18 PcsIt is also cheap feeling in general, using light weight plastic. From the picture, it looked like a serious personal amplifier that might be made of metal or aluminum, but it is just rather thin plastic.The included headphones are also very cheap, like the dollar store variety. I had to order a basic Panasonic headphone to at least be comfortable wearing them: Panasonic RP-HT21 Lightweight Headphones with XBS PortGood idea, but this product doesn't appear to have been updated since it was first introduced in the 80s. The photos on the box are extremely dated.