Conventional Hearing Aids

Hearing aids, which use conventional electronics, have been the core support of the hearing aid industry for 40 years. Conventional hearing aid electronics use basic analog technology to supply quality, amplification to patients with a expansive range of hearing losses. These hearing aids have as their defining feature the characteristic of adding the same amount of amplification to all levels of sound intensity. Thus, low bass type sounds will be amplified with the same amount of volume as high treble sounds. For this reason, some patients may find that conventional electronic hearing aids provide either too little sound or to much sound to comfortably reach a listening level for the particular hearing loss. If this is the case, the patient should consider a digital aid that is programmable. Conventional/Analog hearing aids are priced at the lower end of the cost scale. This type is ideal if the most basic type of amplification is adequate and finances are the bigger anxiety.