Hearing in social settings (restaurants, social gatherings) - which HA truly works

Streaming is a feature that allows you to pass sound from your iPhone to your hearing aids. You do not need to use the mic for that.

I wear Halos and really appreciate the fact that I can adjust the sound in various situations with the TruLink app. It's a rudimentary sort of control using a horizontal slider for treble/bass and a vertical slider for volume. Your audiologist has much greater control over the shape of the sound and can create a few presets for you. You can create many more with the TruLink app.

I can understand where you are coming from. I typically turn my HA's down when in certain restaurants, especially when there is little in the way of sound dampening materials in the area and the place is busy. The background noise is intolerable.

I have tried the mic in meetings and it can help amplify the voices in the room, but I can then also get other sounds amplified as well.

I don't know what Apple TV has to do with your hearing aids. What is your thinking there? For TV in general, I still have to rely on close-captioning because I hesitate to turn up the Halos too far or other sounds can be startling.

No HA is going to be able to provide perfect hearing and some situations just don't lend themselves to hearing aids. I am attending an NFL game this weekend and I expect my HAs to be pretty useless in that environment. I might even wear ear plugs.

I find the ComfortBoost option helpful in noisy surroundings. As for the mic, using the iPhone mic with TrueLink isn't all that great, unless your partner speaks directly into the phone. I've found the iMegaphone app helpful as it seems to bypass Apple-restrictions on amplification volume. The free version lacks the speech filter however. The i-Hear app by the same developer seems to be identical but costs more ...

I have the impression that the SoundSpace interface within TruLink isn't just a mere treble-bass/volume control, but rather does things to the sound-compression as well (albeit unforeseeably so).

Ed Guerin - What is "ComfortBoost?" I don't find a reference for that on my iPhone.

I, too, think there is more to the SoundSpace interface than just treble/bass and volume adjustments. However, I have gotten to the point where I don't use that very much any more.

"Comfort Boost" is a feature of the TruLink app.

(user guide)

It has to be activated in the TruLink settings-menu.

I've been fiddling with the SoundSpace interface because when I play the guitar it sounded horrible. But I guess that with time, and having figured out a few presets, like you, I won't be using it that much. I don't really find the geo-tagging all that helpful either.

Having said all that, I like the HAs, and after trying out the various models, I think I'll go for the i90.

Curious - I have the latest version of TruLink running on my iPhone 5S and I do not have the Comfort Boost feature on the Remote screen. I also do not have any place in the Settings where that can be activated.

Weird.

I'm using an iPhone6, but I don't think that could be the reason you don't have the feature...

I found this footnote in the user manual https://starkeypro.com/pdfs/trulink/TruLink_Hearing_Control_App_User_Guide.pdf

At that point of the Settings Screen, my TruLink shows "Demo Mode" with an on/off switch.

I am going to guess my Halos are due for an update to their firmware.