TechAudioHeadphonesEarbudsThe best wireless earbuds firms are making hearing help more affordableSony and Bose are making hearing help cheaper than ever beforeWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechAudioHeadphonesEarbudsThe best wireless earbuds firms are making hearing help more affordableSony and Bose are making hearing help cheaper than ever beforeWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Sony and Bose are making hearing help cheaper than ever before
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Sony)
(Image credit: Sony)
If you’re lucky enough not to need hearing assistance you might not know just how hilariously expensive hearing aids are, but we’re talking upwards of 2K and sometimes much more for anything halfway decent. So Sony’s $1,300 CRE-E10 and $1,000 CRE-E10 hearing aids, the firm’s first such products, are very much a step in the right direction.
Why headphone firms are making hearing aids
Hearing aids are medical devices, and that means they’re regulated in markets such as the US. But earlier this year the US FDA, the organisation that does the regulating, approved the sale of over-the-counter hearing aids. Bose was one of the first firms to move into this new sector, and Sony is the latest.
Designed for people with mild to moderate hearing loss, Sony’s aids are app-controlled via the Sony Hearing Control app. The app includes “self-fit”, which automatically adjusts the hearing aids to the most suitable profile based on “thousands of actual, real-life audiogram results”.
Sony’s hearing aids, like Bose’s, are still a lot more expensive than eventhe best true wireless earbuds. But with more big names moving into the market, and no doubt more markets opening up for their products, we should see more innovation and lower prices. And that can only be a good thing for the millions of people who’ll be using them in the years to come. Me included.
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