The conversion from analog to digital hearing aids a decade ago improved overall sound quality. But several problems – such as feedback, echoes, static, and white noise – remained. Starkey Laboratories has spent years researching cutting edge technology that would eliminate these and raise our products to the next level. The result: Destiny, a digital hearing instrument created with the power and intelligence of nanoscience that is sensitive, adaptive, and nearly as intuitive as the human ear.
Digitally programmable hearing aids can sculpt sound to fit a particular individual’s unique hearing profile, and can be reprogrammed if there are changes in hearing loss. With a remote control, you can change the settings instantly based on your environment: normal conversation, concert hall, office, or telephone, for example.
Feedback has long been a problem for hearing aid wearers. Now we know a lot more about feedback, and have developed ways to deal with it. Smaller, in-the-canal styles of hearing aids place components closer to the eardrum, preventing sound waves from escaping, thereby reducing, and often eliminating, feedback. Starkey's Active Feedback Intercept (AFI) is the most effective feedback erasure system every developed. AFI uses an entirely new patent-pending method that actually moves nuisance signals in time, so not only does the feedback virtually disappear, there are no irritating sound artifacts left behind.
Environmental Adaptation – a state-of-the-art system – with noise suppression that automatically manages and classifies different sound environments so you can move seamlessly from one listening experience to another.
Directional Speech Detector (DSD) – standard on behind-the-ear styles and optional on all others – with the quietest directional mode in hearing aid history. DSD continuously monitors the decibel levels in noisy environments and adjusts its reception area.
Autocoil – offering instantaneous selection of telephone listening mode, without the need for manual switching.
