Etimbre+ BTE Hearing Aidfeatures toggle-switch Etimbre+ BTE OE Hearing Aid is a full digital and telligent Hearing Aid, with 4 signal processing channels, intelligent adaptive noise reduction system high-effective adaptive feedback suppression function. Toggle-switch BTE OE Hearing Aid helps user not only enjoy a clear hearing under quiet environment, but also in noisy environment.

The product design shows the new trend of BTE Hearing Aid, it meets the ergonomics theory with comfortable wearing and powerful functions.

Application Scope:

Toggle-switch BTE OE Hearing Aidis an auxiliary instrument used for compensation of the user's Hearing Loss. It is applicable for the hearing impaired with conductive, sensorineural and mixed Hearing Loss etc. It is adaptable for mild to moderate Hearing Loss. It should be adjusted and optimized individually by audiologist according to your personal Hearing Loss, the specific configurations, please see the appropriate sections of this User Guide.

Working conditions:
Temperature: -20 ~ +50, Humidity: 0 ~ 93
Voltage: DC1.4V

Storage Conditions:
Temperature: 0 ~ +38, Humidty:0~80

Impact on the Environment

Please dispose of the used battery according to local regulations to protect the environment

How To Wear BTE Etimbre+ Hearing Aid:

A. Intalling Battery

1. Check whether the battery type is correct or not (Battery size:312A).
2. Remove the tag on the battery and keep ir in the air at least 1 minute.
3. Open the battery door gently.
4. Insert the battery to ensure the (+) side is at the same side with the "+" printed at the side edge of the battery door.
5. Gently close the battery door.

B. Power On/Off

C. Removing Battery

D.Wear BTE OE Hearing Aid
1. Accessory Assembly
Tube Assembly

Link the bigger end (triangle base) of the tube with the Hearing Aid, from the position of 45 turn clockwise until the tube tightly matches the device.

Eartip Assembly

Choose the appropriate size of eartip and insert it into the connector on tube.

2. Steps for Wearing Hearing Aid

Use fingers to hold the bottom of the sound tube and push the eartip into the canal gently.

Use another hand to pull the auricle backward, rotating the eartip until it reaches the right position.

Put the Hearing Aid behind the ear and close the head, hung on the ear properly.

Cadenza S1 & Cadenza S3 Detail Pictures:

The Analog Cadenza S Hearing Aidwith classic Class-D circuit, natural sound, easy operation and low battery consumption, it is non-programmable style.

Cadenza S Accessory List:
More convenient for dispenser sales, and also, more convenient for user to change volume through handy VC. Cadenza S can be sold at super markets, pharmacy shops, online shops and hearing clinics etc.

Cadenza S Wearing Display:
Cadenza S use Zinc-Air battery 13A, with VC +LC+HC.
Suitable for Mild-to-moderate user with conduction, sensorineural and mixed Hearing Loss.

AST Cadenza S Advantage & Benefit:
One:
Ear Domes with L/M/S size
Suitable for different customer needs
Two:
Wheel VC LC and HC control
Adjustable sound quality and Volume Control Three:
Zinc Air Battery:13A
Powerfull Battery(230mAh), working time nearly 140 hours

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An article published in this weeksLancet provides a multidisciplinary approach to treating tinnitus. The specialised care program appears to be affective for both mild and severe tinitius and researchers hope their strategies will be implemented widely and be of great help to suffers.

The Canadian folk rock singer Neil Young famously suffered from tinnitus and had to stop recording for some years, but the problem is very common and said to affect nearly a quarter of all people during their lives. We have all been to nightclubs or concerts and woken up the next day with that irritating dull or high pitched ring in our ears, but imagine if it just didn´t go away day after day. It´s has the makings of some prison torture.

Researchers combined cognitive behavior therapy with sound-based tinnitus retraining therapy and produced results that better current treatments. Cima and Johan Vlaeyen from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, who led the research explain: 

"The results are highly relevant for clinical practice because best practice for tinnitus has not been defined, and current treatment strategies are fragmented and costly."

For their investigation, researchers recruited nearly 500 adults with tinnitus; half were randomly assigned to stepped specialized care and the other half to usual care stratified by tinnitus severity and hearing ability in blocks of four. Validated questionnaires were used to measure health-related quality of life, tinnitus severity, and tinnitus impairment. 

The program ran for 12 months and patients in the specialized care group reported improved quality of life (effect size 0·24***) and decreased tinnitus severity (0·43) and impairment (0·45) compared with those receiving standard treatment.

The authors conclude that:

"We showed the effectiveness of specialized care compared with usual care not only after the first 3 months of first-step treatment, but also after the more intensive second-step treatment approach ended and 4 months of no treatment ... Our findings could lead to consensus in policy about best practice in treatment of tinnitus, standard choices in referral trajectories, and the implementation of standardized tinnitus assessment and thereby more easily comparable outcomes".

Scientists not involved with the work, made positive comments but noted that the stepped care approach was only over a relatively short duration. 

Written by Rupert Shepherd 

If you're concerned about losing your hearing because of noise exposure (earbud deafness syndrome), a new discovery published online in the FASEB Journaloffers some hope. That's because scientists from Germany and Canada show that the protein, AMPK, which protects cells during a lack of energy, also activates a channel protein in the cell membrane that allows potassium to leave the cell. This activity is important because this mechanism helps protect sensory cells in the inner ear from permanent damage following acoustic noise exposure. This information could lead to new strategies and therapies to prevent and treat trauma resulting from extreme noise, especially in people with AMPK gene variants that may make them more vulnerable to hearing loss.

"Future research on the basis of the present study may lead to the development of novel strategies preventing noise-induced hearing loss or accelerating recovery from acoustic trauma," said Florian Lang, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Physiology at the University of Tübingen, in Tübingen, Germany.

To make this discovery, Lang and colleagues compared two groups of mice. The first group was normal and the second lacked the AMPK protein. Hearing of the mice was tested by measuring sound-induced brain activity. All mice were exposed to well-defined noise causing an acoustic trauma and leading to hearing impairment. Prior to noise exposure, the hearing ability was similar in normal mice and mice lacking AMPK. After exposure, the hearing of the normal mice mostly recovered after two weeks, but the recovery of hearing in AMPK-deficient mice remained significantly impaired.

"When it comes to preventing hearing loss, keeping the volume down is still the best strategy, and this discovery doesn't prevent loud music from beating on our ear drums," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of the FASEB Journal. "This discovery does help explain why some people seem more likely to lose their hearing than others. At the same time, it also provides a target for new preventive strategies - and perhaps even a treatment - for earbud deafness syndrome."

Enjoy the Listening with the Intelligent "Jora"

AUSTAR Jora hearing aids will come into market with a worldwide synchronization on July.10th ,2012

Jora series caters to specific needs of users with mild to profound hearing loss. Meeting the requirements of appearance and power for hearing aids, Jora also strengthens product function，which is based on a four−channel compression circuit featuring Adaptive Feedback Cancellation, Adaptive Noise Reduction, FrontWave Directional Microphone, 12KHz Bandwidth , Wideband Gain and Volume Control. etc. Jora series is specially designed for users to find a good solution to their specific hearing loss.

ISD Intelligent Spectrum Detection processing system

ISD , as an accurate, reliable and steady sound processing system, has the latest precise ability of sound analysis, detection and the function of ultra-speed sound processing, that can guarantee Jora’s perfect timbre.

Wide Dynamic Range Compression (WDRC)

WDRC, with a low threshold of activation, is designed to distribute signals between a listener’s hearing threshold and discomfort in a manner that matches loudness growth. It provides more amplification for slight sound, while less amplification for loud sound.

The squelch region within each channel implements a low level noise reduction scheme for listener comfort. This scheme operates in quiet listening environments (programmable threshold) to reduce the gain at very low levels.

Adaptive Feedback Cancellation (AFC)

Based on a phase cancellation method, Jora’s Adaptive Feedback Reduction algorithm provides 17dB added stable gain to enable user comfort and open fitting. It features rapid adjustment for dynamic feedback situations and resistance to tonal inputs.

Adaptive Noise Reduction (ANR)

The noise reduction algorithm is built upon a high resolution 64−band filter bank enabling precise removal of noise. The algorithm monitors the signal and noise activities in these bands, and imposes an accurately calculated attenuation gain independently in each of the 64 bands. The Noise Reduction algorithm efficiently removes a wide variety of types of noise, while retaining natural speech quality and level. The level of noise reduction is configurable to 3, 6, 9 and 12 dB of reduction.

FrontWave Directional Microphone

The FrontWave directional system utilizes a pair of microphones to

create a fully customizable static polar pattern, that is hyper−cardiod, which is operated by delaying the rear−microphone signal and subtracting it from the front microphone signal. It focuses the front sound source that can guarantee the speech definition in noisy environment

Super Quiet

Super Quiet provides users an amazing tranquility and comfort in quiet places. The squelch region within each channel implements a low level noise reduction scheme.

Automatic Telecoil

When the user lifts phone close to the hearing aid, Jora 9 will automatically switch to tele-coil program and will bring you a relaxing and amazing hearing experience.