Phonak Audeo Infinio Ultra Sphere Review: Premium Hearing Aids
- If your comparing photos of the Audeo Infinio ultra Sphere-Phonak's moast powerful hearing aid to date-to the product's name, you're not crazy: It's not the slightest bit...
- The other new hearing aid system in the Infinio Ultra line, called the R, is available as a less advanced, cheaper model.
- the key feature of the Sphere is that it includes not one processing chip but two.
If your comparing photos of the Audeo Infinio ultra Sphere-Phonak’s moast powerful hearing aid to date-to the product’s name, you’re not crazy: It’s not the slightest bit round. It’s a traditional, teardrop-shaped, behind-the-ear hearing aid that takes its name from Phonak’s new Spheric speech Clarity 2.0 system,designed to enhance the understandability of conversations in noisy conditions,no matter what direction the voices are coming from.
Yes, Phonak Audeo Infinio Ultra Sphere is a mouthful. For this review, I’ll call it the Ultra Sphere. The other new hearing aid system in the Infinio Ultra line, called the R, is available as a less advanced, cheaper model.
the key feature of the Sphere is that it includes not one processing chip but two. The new DeepSonic DNN (deep neural network) chip handles multidirectional speech processing in noise. That’s in addition to Phonak’s older Era chip, which launched in 2024 and manages core audio processing and wireless functions. Are two chips better than one for hearing clearly? I wore the Ultra Sphere hearing aids for a week to find out.
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