An Overview of Oticon’s Go and Go Pro Family of Basic Hearing Aids
Updated November 3, 2016 – The Oticon Go, and the Oticon Go Pro, are entry-level digital hearing aids designed for users with mild to severe hearing losses. With numerous included advanced features, these Oticon hearing aids deliver exceptional, crystal clear sound quality to the user. The Oticon hearing aid help make soft sounds audible, while also controlling for loud sounds, so they are not too loud or uncomfortable for the user. These hearing devices are programmed by a CPU specifically for the user’s unique hearing aids, so the user is guaranteed to be wearing a hearing device that is just right for them. These Oticon hearing aids are available in a variety of styles, including Completely-In-The-Canal (CIC), In-The-Canal, several In-The-Ear (ITE) styles, and Behind-The-Ear (BTE).
The Oticon Go Pro hearing aid is the more advanced of the two hearing devices, and comes equipped with several features. The Go hearing aid is the more basic hearing aid, yet still comes with a variety of features that can deliver excellent hearing in numerous situations.
- Digital Sound Quality: The Go Pro hearing aids provide users with exceptional, crystal clear sound quality that is much cleaner, and crisper than the sound quality received with some analog hearing instruments.
- Open-Fitting: The Go Pro hearing aids are designed to sit in the ear more comfortable than many hearing devices. Whenever something is in the user’s ear, it has a tendency to feel clogged, and can make the user’s voice sound different to themselves. With these hearing devices, the user’s ear is less feeling unplugged, and their voice remains sounding natural.
- Feedback Cancelling: This advanced feature can help eliminate the whistling that can occur while on the phone, or while making volume adjustments to the hearing aid. With this technology, users can make much more pleasant phone calls to his or her friends and family, without having to worry about embarrassing whistling.
- Automatic Noise Reduction: This feature helps to dampen the cumbersome sound of background noise in loud environments. With background noise selectively reduced, users can focus on what they want to, like conversations. This feature can also help reduce the mental fatigue that can occur over extended periods in loud environments.
- Directional Program: The models of the Go Pro hearing aid feature a directional microphone that helps users pinpoint speech sounds in front of them, while reducing the sound from other directions. This can help further enhance the ease with which users can have conversations in noisy environments.
- AutoPhone Program: This feature, present in the ITE and ITC models of the Go Pro hearing device, automatically detects when the user is on the phone, and adjusts the hearing aid’s settings accordingly, providing the best sound quality possible.
- Digital Sound Quality: Crystal clear sound.
- Easy-to-Use: The Go hearing aid features a programmable push-button telecoil, and a volume control wheel.
- Directionality: Better in-noise conversations.
- Feedback Manager: No more whistling.
Available styles of the Go hearing aid:
Is there something more advnced than the gopro for a 5 years old kid?
The Go Pro is available in several size ranges. If the model that was fitted too the child is of a size that is comfortable for them and the patient and professional are happy with the results– It is a good hearing aid. If you are unhappy with the results, discuss this with your professional and/or seek another professionals ,with whom you feel more comfortable,opinion. The professional should be the one choosing the level of technology that they feel is most appropriate. The patient often runs into problems when they are dictating the product with which the professional must work. There is a reason why these people are professionals in the industry. If hearing aids were simple to prescribe or something that could be fitted by anyone on the street, then the guys who are trying to scam you out of your money on the internet, on lat night TV or in the back of a farm magazine would have the right idea. Unfortunately, they are the exact group that continues to perpetuate the myth that hearing aids are trash and will not help people. I have my teeth fixed by a professional in his office, I do not order some cut rate pseudo product from the internet or out of a magazine and expect the results to be the same as the work of a professional.