Starkey Hearing Aids Reviews

I like the fact that I can change settings and control the volume from my phone. Hearing aids make a big difference in your life, in your communication with other people, which is certainly even more important than watching your television or hearing music. Being able to communicate with others is the key. Before I started with Starkey, I had already been wearing hearing aids. So they were just a continued enhancement to my hearing. And Starkey’s better than the other hearing aids I had.

My hearing aids are completely in the ear canal, and they fit fine. I don't have any issues with them. I love how they are now. I can't imagine what could possibly be next as far as the future. There's also the little box to where you can stream it to your television and adjust the volume for just yourself. So, there's that feature. However, that's above my pay grade to think about, too.

As I've gotten older, my hearing has become worse. But with the hearing aids, I can hear more now than I could even five years ago. Because of technology, I can hear birds chirping, where I've never heard them chirp before. It's little things like that that a lot of people take for granted. Now, I still can't hear a mouse. Some people can. It's been quite an adjustment from time to time because of technology. Every time I get new hearing aids, I'm able to hear something new because technology keeps improving. I can control my hearing aids through the app. I'm not so sure if it would be good for the elderly and for someone not so tech-savvy enough to be able to use the app. But for myself, I like it. I'm confident with it. I can make my own adjustments.

Once, I had an issue with getting my hearing aids updated because I changed phones, and it didn't wanna carry over to the new phone. So, I called customer service, and the lady was able to help me with no issues at all. She knew exactly what needed to be done to get my Starkey going so that I could be reconnected with my hearing aids through the phone.

As far as the price, I feel like it was fair even if I did have to pay full price. But thanks to my employer and the program that they have, insurance-wise, because I was able to pay very minimal compared to full price without any insurance coverage. This is the first time in my adult life that I've had insurance. When I was a child, my mom had other insurances through the government, and they took care of it. As an adult, I've always had to pay full price out of pocket. So, what I paid for two hearing aids is like pocket change compared to if I had to pay the full price. Price-wise, there are other brands that are cheaper, but I also feel like you get what you pay for. So, I can't really say anything negative at all about the price.

I’m very satisfied. With the hearing loss I have, they work fantastic. They’re behind‑the‑ear with the little piece that goes in the ear. Once a year, they clean and check them for me. I love them. I have hearing loss in both ears, but my right ear is worse. I also have tinnitus. The ringing has been there so long that I just tune it out. The hearing aids help pick up sounds even over the ringing.

I use them when I really need to hear, like at church or the doctor’s office. Otherwise, I don’t wear the right one because it’s distracting. The one for the left ear I wear all the time. I can hear because they tuned it really loud, but it’s confusing after so many years of not hearing in one ear. Putting something in it throws me off. Still, it helps a lot. When I’m in noisy situations, I can hear over everything. I can’t normally hear a bird chirping or water dripping, but with the hearing aid, I can. It’s extremely helpful. I could have gotten Bluetooth, but I didn’t want it. It’s too distracting for me. My hearing aids use batteries, and I charge them about once a week. I use Duracell, so they last longer, sometimes eight or nine days. When I take them out at night, I open them so the battery is not running for nothing.

I get little notices from them, like an email, a card, or a text reminding me to bring in my hearing aids on certain days. I got them in Marksville at Dr. Breen's office. So far, I’ve been very satisfied. I don’t have anything to complain about.

My daughter started all of this. She picked up the phone, made the call, and told them what was going on. Then Starkey called me. We spoke, and that’s how it came about. I can’t remember the name of the place where I got them, but it was a good experience.

The only bad thing was that they constantly change their staff. Once I got to know someone there, they were suddenly gone, especially the actual hearing doctor. She was very nice and friendly, but the next time I went in, she was gone. The same thing happened with the rest of the staff. Now, I don’t know anyone there.

Right now, I have an issue. I had my hearing aids paired to my phone through Bluetooth, but I bought a new phone in April and I can’t get them to connect. I’ve been trying to do it through the Starkey app, but for the life of me I just can’t get it to work. I finally got so frustrated that I gave up.

I need to try again because I like that feature, being able to use Bluetooth to hear music or take calls. I had it set up like that on my old phone. I’ve tried everything. I uninstalled the app, went back to the Google Play Store, and re-downloaded it. I even tried starting from the very beginning, but it still won’t let me set it up.

Overall, the experience was good. They treated me well and explained a lot. I’m actually supposed to go back, but I’ve had some scheduling issues. They’re supposed to call me early next week to set up the appointment.

I chose to go ahead and get Starkey and I’ve had them for a little over a year now. There's a piece that sits behind the ear, and then it got a little wire that you got a little insert that goes into the ear canal for the aid of improving the hearing. It’s been pretty easy to get used to. But I really struggle a little bit as far as adjusting them to take care of hearing issues. There are four different settings based upon the type of environment and you can adjust the receiving sound up and down based upon particular situations for each of those four different settings. They're helpful. But I have some disagreement with my wife about the level of hearing needs I have.

There isn't anything I don't like about my hearing aids. My hearing aids use batteries rather than charging them. That has been fine up until the point where hearing aid batteries' manufacturers have been required to put the batteries into what they call childproof cases. And I don't even know what would be strong enough to get the cases open. It's terrible. But as far as my hearing aids go, I like that I can turn it up and down. I can also change the setting to audience or outside. But they were expensive.

For people with hearing loss, you don't miss phone calls for the most part, or text messages, even in a noisy environment. With the Bluetooth pairing, you can hear your phone call better than you possibly could have without them. That's the biggest thing that I like about it. I could sit on my couch and be watching bare-knuckle boxing on my phone, and my wife can be sitting next to me watching a Hallmark channel on the TV, and she doesn't even know what I'm watching. It's nice. You can do anything like that. It could be car racing, motorcycle racing, and you don't disturb anybody because it's only in your ear.

Using the Starkey hearing aids has helped me tremendously. I noticed the difference when I have them off. I wake up in the morning and I haven't put them in yet and I walk towards other parts of the house and I have my TV on in the bedroom. I noticed the difference from having them on or not having them on. I said, "I can't hear anything at all." There’s a major difference.

It's been a positive experience with my Starkey and I would recommend them. I've had them for a while now and they're extremely effective. I couldn't believe the difference in the noise. I go where I reside. I always sit in the lobby in the mornings and have my coffee at a convenience store across the street. Without them on, I couldn't hear a thing out there. All of a sudden, I started hearing noises when I first went out there and had them on. There are so many things I was missing. I hear the birds out there as well.

I also like the fact that I can connect them to my phone even and to my TV. I fall asleep very late. Before, I had a speaker right by my bedside and I have to be checking the volume, making sure it's not too loud, which can bother the neighbors. Now, at night, I just throw on the hearing aids and connect them to the TV and I don't have to worry about the volume bothering all the people in the building. And the volume, I can just use it for myself and I know nobody else is gonna hear it. That's a very convenient feature.

I take my hearing aids out. There were a couple of times when I fell asleep with them in my ears, and I said, "I can't believe I just did that." Also, I would turn on the volume for a while, and when I go somewhere, people would tell me, "Turn your hearing aids up. Can you not hear me?" I know where the hearing problems came from because my grandpa had hearing aids. He would turn them down on purpose, especially when we had children or grandma because she will yell at him every now and then.

Starkey is better than the other ones my wife tried because it has a very small ear tube. They had a hard time getting little microphones small enough to go in there comfortably. And this lady at Willoughby Hearing did her job to get something that was comfortable. The last time we were at the location, the agent tuned them down somehow to make them a little more comfortable for her.

My wife doesn't always wear them because she's a piano player and whenever she sits on the piano, she feels like she's playing on a tin can. So, she takes the hearing aids out, sits in a little dish on the piano, and plays, and then she'll leave them there. She doesn't seem to buy the idea that by not wearing them, she's allowing room for the advancement of more failure and more dementia as she gets older. She doesn't always wear them all the time because the peace and quiet is so wonderful. When I wash dishes or do anything, everything's so crackly and noisy and everything is so intense.

The hearing aids will not give her new ears. But if she doesn't wear them, then the problem that was so clearly detailed to her about the higher frequencies that she has a problem with will only get worse if we don't maximize the stimulation that's available by wearing them.

Her audiologist is giving the best she can afford to get her under her terms with Social Security or Medicare, because they have certain limits. We have limited income and co-pays sometimes are a bit of a source of anxiety for me. But everything was paid. And every time she goes in there to have her ears cleaned or to have the hearing aids adjusted or tested, there's never any charge. That means that Medicare or Medicaid is paying for it. And maybe they're getting a $1500 hearing aid, under the limits. It could be that a $3000 hearing aid would do better than the one she's got if it were affordable. I'm sure Starkey has a range of pricing and the technology they can provide for different investments.

One of the reasons my wife wouldn’t want to go anywhere else is that she doesn’t want to lose connection with Roz. She’s an independent agent but she has all these things on the wall and certificates having to do with Starkey. My wife likes how well she's been treated by the company. We've sent the hearing aids back one time because it wasn't working right. One of them was returned and they did some kind of repair on it, so, she was only using one for a week. And she was happy to get it back, but she also commented that it's great to deal with a company that stands behind its product so unconditionally.

I like that my hearing aids can connect to my cellphone so I can hear my phone’s audio more clearly. My first set used batteries, and my second set is rechargeable. The newer pair is definitely an upgrade and way above the first. The price is high, but it is well worth it.

The instructions and the linkability were confusing in the beginning. Let's say, if I get a FaceTime and want someone else to hear the conversation instead of having it Bluetooth inside my head, switching back and forth was confusing. I also had trouble where one of the earpieces just simply died and nobody could figure out what happened. I did have it replaced, so I don't have a problem now.

My mother wore hearing aids years back, and hers was about the size of a small transistor radio, and very cumbersome. So, I was surprised the first time I tried mine on because they were totally different from what I expected. I thought they'd still be noticeable, but they're not. And I was concerned because I wear my hair short, but that didn't seem to make any difference, so they’re fine. I had them replaced because it’s been five years and I’m on my second pair. However, they're very expensive.

That was my first pair. I bought these two years ago on a really good special, so the cost was reasonable. Otherwise, I would never be able to afford hearing aids at all.

I went to the Here Again Center in Vernon, Connecticut, and I’ve been very happy with their service. The staff are friendly, wait times are short, and they clearly know what they’re doing.

It works great. If I don't have hearing aids, then I'm basically deaf. I can stand right under my smoke detector and if it goes off, I couldn't hear it. I have a 70% hearing loss in one ear, maybe a little more on the other. I got a Streamer. I wouldn't be without it and I had to get another one. I would be right down there as soon as their doors open. I watched TV before mostly with closed-captioning. I still use closed-captioning, but the Streamer is great.

Starkey is top-of-the-line. I know that there are more expensive ones. But I'm totally satisfied. I'm retired, fixed income and all that. I'm totally happy with them. It's not perfect but it's way better than I ever thought it would be.

They’re rechargeable unlike my last ones, which had batteries that I had to buy. I was a little concerned about that when I first got them. But I've never had an issue with them going dead on me. And I'm up early in the morning until late at night. I'm streaming and I know it pulls more battery. But by the end of the day, I'm down to about 25% battery. It lasts me through the day.

And the customer service representative at Starkey was really nice. But I lost one of my hearing aids, and I went back to New Orleans trying to find it, but it died out on me. So, I wish I could get that one I lost, the left one. Because they want too much for one, and I couldn’t afford that.

When I moved from Bloomfield to South Jersey, I had a homelessness situation. They were trying their best to keep up with me, wondering when I could come back to Essex County. They tried to work with me as long as they could. But it just didn't seem to work out. Insurance has different timelines as to when things need to be done in order to proceed. It wasn't something where I had to return because of issues, per se. The hearing aid model that I had cost around $3,000 and it was Medicaid coverage. In the end, my relationship with Starkey got disconnected due to my personal circumstances.

I’ve been having a few problems with my hearing aids though and I’ve been talking with Matthew about the sound on the ears. I get that whistle constantly. I have an appointment with him in April. We’d send one of them back and see if that might correct that. He’s tried everything he could and it hasn’t worked. But other than that, I’m happy with it except with that whistle that goes on.

You go to Costco and get them for $1,600, and it’s the same thing. I don’t see any reason to pay all that, and they are as good as the people that can program them. My biggest thing about my Starkey experience is that I had insurance and my insurance said, “Out of the $6,000, we’re going to pay you a little bitty tiny a bit. And then you get to pay a copay plus a co-insurance.” And I thought, “Well, why am I bothering to pay insurance? I can save all that money.” So, I paid cash. I’m not impressed with them. You would do better sticking your fingers in your ear. That way, you won’t hear your wife arguing with you.