Starkey’s Wi Series: Premium, High-Quality Advanced Hearing Aids for Effortless Hearing
Updated November 4, 2016 – From Starkey Laboratories comes one of the most advanced Starkey hearing aids on the market today, the Starkey Wi Series. These Starkey hearing aids allow for effortless listening, even in noisy environments, to help bring enjoyable listening back to users who may have lost it. The most advanced innovation of this series of hearing aids is the ability to wirelessly transmit sound from the user’s television, radio, or computer, directly to the user’s hearing aid, through a SurfLink Media streamer. Other Starkey hearing technologies present in the Wi Series hearing aids provide better phone call conversations, eliminate buzzing and whistling, and deliver exceptional sound clarity. This series of Starkey hearing aids can also be custom-fit to the user’s ear.
While Wi Series technology is available in a wide variety of hearing aid styles, the technology found in each hearing aid is the same.
- PureWave Feedback Eliminator is an advanced technology that delivers a fast response to more complex feedback. This technology eliminates the buzzing and whistling that may be present in some other hearing aids. It also makes open ear fittings a potential option for a wider variety of hearing aid users.
- Voice iQ2 technology doubles the noise reduction capability of the company’s leading noise reduction and speech preservation system. This technology makes having a conversation in a noisy environment much easier by providing up to 20dB of background noise reduction, and instantly applying variable noise adaptations in all channels between each syllable of a conversation.
- InVision Directionality helps users focus on what is important in a conversation by pinpointing desired sounds, and eliminating unwanted ones. This allows for more effortless listening. In fact, when used in combination with Voice iQ2, users experience reduced listening effort and cognitive fatigue.
- Spectral iQ technology is an advanced technology designed for those with steeply sloping high-frequency hearing loss. This technology enhances real-time audibility by identifying high-frequency speech cues, and replacing them in lower frequencies. This provides audibility of high-frequency speech cues for users who may have been considered unaidable previously.
- Self Learning technology present in the Wi Series hearing aids helps to reduce the manual adjustments of the user’s hearing aid. It does this by gradually and automatically learning volume control preferences in each memory.
- Sweep Technology eliminates the tiny buttons and dials present on most hearing aids with an intuitive touch surface. This allows users to make volume or memory adjustments with the simple sweep or touch of a finger. Note: this technology is available on the RIC 13 model.
- Automatic Telephone Solutions (ATS) automatically senses when the user is on the phone, and makes the necessary volume and memory adjustments for the most comfortable and enjoyable phone hearing possible.
- Music and Television Processing technology delivers numerous music genre settings that helps to maximize the user’s sound quality, enhancing their listening enjoyment. Additionally, a new memory program on the hearing aid helps to deliver optimal sound quality for watching television.
- HydraShield2 technology helps to protect the user’s hearing aid. This nanocoating technology shields the user’s hearing aid from wax, water, oils, sweat, humidity, perspiration, and corrosion, on both, the inside and the outside.
- Intuitive Features of the Wi Series hearing aids provide users with automatic vocal and tonal indicators that tell the user the status of his of her hearing aid, as well as its battery.
- Ear-to-Ear Wireless Communication coordinates the communication between hearing aids. This technology eliminates the need to manually adjust both hearing aids, for added convenience.
- SurfLink Media streaming allows users to hear his or her radio, television, or computer audio at the volume they prefer, as it is streamed directly from the device to his or her hearing aid. With this technology, no manual pairing is involved, the device just has to be plugged in, and the SurfLink Media streamer automatically streams stereo audio (both ears) to the user’s hearing aid when they are in range. Additionally, other users can listen to the radio or television at a volume that they prefer at the same time.
Wi Series i110 hearing aids are ideal for use in very loud environments, such as stadiums and concerts. The Wi Series i90 hearing aids are excellent for loud environments, like shopping malls, meetings, or in restaurants. The Wi Series i70 hearing aids are ideal for just about everything else, from quiet time at home, to worship services, to one-on-one conversations.
Does this or any other wi series hearing aid have binaural function with telephone use or regular hearing situations?
Thank you,
Jim
It is my understanding that all Starkey WI series aids can be made to utilize binaural vc and memory change options.
I replaced my old hearing aids with the WI Series. Have behind the ear with ear molds. Have encountered one big problem. I’m an out of doors persons. When it hot outside and I start to sweat the hearing aid keep turning off and on. The off and on is something rapid and other times they will stay off for 5 or more minutes and then trun back on. I switched to the little rubber ear inserts but it made no difference.
I have and am experiencing the same as Mr. Don Williams above. Once the perspiration starts, oh boy, what a rodeo! They self adjust and cycle between programs on their own. Mine has 3 programs and once they start to cycle you hear, “One”, “Two”, “Three” then they cycle again, and again, then turn off. It’s hell if you are trying to listen to an instructor, a customer, or my wife! She gets more infuriated than I do when this starts because I stop her in the middle of a sentence to say, “my hearing aids need to settle down.” By the time it’s all over, she’s lost her train of thought and I’m ticked off because I missed what she was trying to say. These hearing aids have all the bells and whistles anyone would want. I find them extremely helpful in watching TV, until my wife has something to say, then I have to push the blue button on the streamer, wait till the hearing aids catch up, and then say, “Yes, dear? You were saying?” It comes with a handy dandy remote that you can hang around your neck or put it on the table and point it at the person you are with so that you can hear their conversation through streaming. To me a waste.
They connect to the Bluetooth to your cell phone. However, people on the other end can’t hear you talking. They say it sounds as if you are in a can miles away. Useless. After a year of use, here’s my recommendations:
1. Get rid of the over-the-ear superfluous crap and go back to analog or all-in-the-ear
2. Get rid of the Bluetooth idea until it is perfected to be able to hold an intelligent conversation with someone without the person on the other end complaining of the cheap sound.
3. Be able to self-adjust through computer link for those that would have enough knowledge and theory of sound.
4. I am a country music lead guitar player. So far, everything that has come out of Starkey and Siemens has been garbage after analog. Bring back analog, please!!! Digital is really bad. No one has been able to duplicate what analog can do.
5. I go through batteries every other day. I had a Siemens that I could get maybe a week out of. These over-the-ear Starkey WI Series I110 RIC 312’s go through batteries extremely fast…
I sure would like a response from Starkey on these hearing aids. I’ve had them for a year and they have some good points but an awful lot of bad points. Sure would like to talk to a Starkey engineer and give them an “ear full”.
Oh, if you wear a cap or a hat, forget it. The hem of the cap or hat bumps against the ear controls of the hearing aids too.
I got my mother Starkey i110 aids. She has severe hearing loss. While the aids seem to work OK for normal conversions, so far I can’t get a phone that doesn’t squelch when she has the phone to her hear or even close to her ear. Shouldn’t the ATS work with the phone? Does this feature need to be turned on? Any special phone that works best?
Thanks you.
Marion
I am 91 and find that the Panasonic phone with volume control & clarity control work great without turning memory to phone on in surflink
My WI110 series work perfectly with my cell phone. I hear and understand everything. They don’t work with my Panasonic cordless phone so I just got in the habit to use the speaker phone and have no problem
Haoneve Starkey Series WI 110 ITC .
Have purchased Surflink Model 300 accesorie phone hands free works great for work , however
Cannot use surround, or focus feature just to tinny sounding and loud really need help is there a program that can be installed to match my hearing loss?
Hi: I have the Starkey W I series i110 half shell and surf link remote. In memory, can #$ be programmed for loop? The same surf link was programmed for loop with the latest OTE model. However, I prefer the ITE model, and am hoping they can programed for loop. TIA Gus
I have Starkey RIC312 hearing aids, which work well for noise free environments. I understood that they could be adjusted to reduce sounds from behind me in a restaurant so that I could more easily talk with whoever is across from me. Also, I understood that they could be adjusted to reduce wind noise, which sounds like static.
I’ve been to two facilities with audio technicians “preferred” by Starkey and requested adjustments for these functions, but after they made adjustments, I find that the performance in these areas is bad. Is there anything I can do to improve the situation in a restaurant to reduce noises behind me?