Looking for a lightweight simple headset to use with hearing aids when traveling with guide using an audio box. What models seem to work best?
Posted by
Minnesota 🎒
18006 posts
Hi there -
While you're waiting for responses from firsthand hearing-aid users, these previous threads on the same subject may provide a useful browse.
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Posted by
Minnesota
715 posts
There are many other similar headsets available on Amazon. Sometimes the tour guide has headsets like this available, but I don’t count on that.
I actually take one hearing aid out, put it in a safe place, and use this (which I find more comfortable in any case than the ones that go inside my ear). I find that by adjusting the volume I can hear just fine. But it can also hang over the ear and hearing aid.
Posted by
Michigan
599 posts
Try using a bluetooth adapter, if your hearing aids are bluetooth compatible. Airfly is one brand, but there are others.
Posted by
Bend, OR
1928 posts
Check with your hearing aid brand to see if your hearing aids will connect with Airfly to connect with the Whisper systems. Even though my Oticon hearing aids will Bluetooth connect with my phone and my IPad, they will not sync with Airfly, something about low frequency. It’s unfortunate because it’s so much easier than using a headset. Hopefully yours do.
Posted by
Seattle suburbs
117 posts
One additional caution. If you plan to use headphone with a wire jack or on an AirFly be sure you take a mono to stereo adapter. We ran into whisper system on a Spain tour that was a mono system. We had to use the low cost ear plug they provided. Difficult to do if you are wearing hearing aids. My Rexton aids do not pair to my AirFly model.
I use AirFly on the plane paired to Apple earbuds or Bose over the ear head phones. While on tour I use AirFly connected to an Apple earbud in one ear or a Bose wired earbud set. That said: prepare best you can and enjoy the trip.