Digital Hearing Amplifier by Britzgo BHA-1301. Doctor and Audiologist Designed

I highly recommend this. It has been over a month since I ordered this device and I am still very pleased with how it is working. I am 62 years young and my hearing is not all that bad except in certain auditory ranges. Still, I was getting tired of the constant: "What?" "Excuse me?" "Pardon me?" and "Huh?" - especially around home and at my office. I was looking at getting a hearing test with the intent of buying aids for thousands of dollars. You can get a lot of these things for the price of one hearing aid. My mother and numerous others I have spoken with were not all that happy with their hearing aid experience. So I took a chance, followed the suggestion of a friend, and got this instead. It is truly wonderful. As some reviewers have said, the draw back is that it amplifies EVERY thing, so I do not use it constantly. Around my home I was disappointed that it amplified the fan overhead and the air vent noise really well -- but when you are trying to hear someone talking that really gets in the way. Likewise, I cannot use it in my car while driving - my hearing is fine for that. You can't believe how noisy a car is! And the kitchen is definitely off limits - every clank and clack of pots and pans or silverware becomes 'gun shot' loud. It drives me nuts. But being able to watch a DVD or listen to music on the stereo without entertaining the neighbors down the street is terrific. And taking this thing hiking is absolutely wonderful - to hear the birds, the wind in the trees, your foot fall in grass or gravel - is truly a joy. Of course, using it in my office to hear my soft-spoken clients has been both a blessing and essential. For the money this is a genuine value. It appears well made, has a good guarantee (though there are conflicts in the literature between one and two years) and seems well worth the investment. I do not understand why everyone seems fixated on the packaging? I guess the nice box shows something of the care of the manufacturer -- it is just marketing to me. This device really delivers good results and is ideal for folks whose hearing is not all that bad.

I have am 20 years old and have hearing damage from when I was 4 years old and put a popcorn curnel in my right ear. The doctor attempted to vacuum suck it out but ended up shoving it in farther and permanently damaging my ear drum causing 85% deafness. I hot this bbn in Hope's of it working because I have no insurance so I cannot see a doctor for issues that have gotten worse over the years. And to my surprise, I CAN HEAR! I've always heard muffled noise but never clearly through my right ear and now i can hear things majoritivly clear! I cried when I could hear out of both ears for the first time in atleast 12 years that I can remember. Definatley worth buying! Only downfall is I wear glasses and its is in the way of that but I'll suffer through to be able to hear :)

First hearing device and a keeper! For the money, I'm very happy with this device, I wear it in my right ear which is my bad ear and it works wonders. So well in fact that I turned the volume level of my TV down from 24 to level 14. I can also now hear the wife talking which may or may not be a good thing. Oh well, it does have a volume control. When I first put it in my ear, it did whistle a lot. That was solved by changing to the largest ear bud. Seems like you need the proper seal between the ear bud and ear canal. It always seems to squeal when putting it on or removing it. That was an easy fix also. Have the unit turned off when putting it on or removing it. Here is a little trick I learned to test the battery. Just cup your hand and place it over your ear. If you get a squeal, the battery is good. If not. the battery needs replaced. By the way, it does take the 675 air cell battery which can be bought at quite a good price here at Amazon. I don't feel it is too large and feels good while I'm wearing it. I like this device so much that I ordered another one in silver directly from Britzgo's web site only because I wanted to order some extra ear buds as well. I will not be wearing both of them at once, I just wanted a spare! No you can't get extra tubing for this model but the way it's designed you should never have to replace the tubing. Yes, there is a very tiny bit of white noise in the unit but that doesn't bother me at all as you can hardly hear it. You must always keep in mind that you paid pocket change for this unit and not thousands of bucks. Many thanks to all the good folks at Britzgo!

Updated 2-22-18: First unit did work well for a few weeks then the volume switch started to rattle around. They were really good about sending a replacement quickly. I had the replacement for a few weeks and it started out also working very well. After a while however the sound started to get very distorted so I am going to return the unit. They probably have a good product and it worked well at first but QC seems to be an issue.I tried several other brands and they really didn't work at all. On a tight budget so I thought I would give one more inexpensive set a try out. Works really well once you have all the adjustments set properly. My wife was very pleased as I had a hard time hearing our conversations before. For the price, it can't be beat. I didn't realize how bad my hearing was until I put these on.What I liked, easy to set up, nice set of features, easy to adjustWhat I didn't like, its not for noisy crowded area. It picks up sounds really well. No noise canceling.