Audien Hearing ATOM Rechargeable Hearing Amplifier to Aid and Assist Hearing, Premium Comfort Design & Nearly Invisible

I researched OTC hearing aids quite a bit and the Audien Atom kept popping up with very positive feedback. Just turning 60, and have been struggling with bad tinnitus and dramatic hearing loss in my left ear, moderate on the right for awhile. I’ve struggled to hear conversations in crowded or noisy rooms and when I realized I have been reading lips as much as actually hearing the conversations I was involved in I decided it was time to get some help. Ordered on Amazon 3 weeks ago and had my package delivered in just 2 days. Very well packaged and complete with everything required to charge, tune, clean and transport the hearing aids. The instructions were very clear and straightforward…. Setup and charging were a piece of cake. I strongly recommend following the directions for the suggested low end volume setting to start with, wearing the earpieces for just a few hours each day for the first few weeks or so. There is a definite “ adjustment “ period for fit and it does take a little bit of patience to allow your ears to physically adjust to the presence of the earpiece. I started with the smallest ear cups and they were perfect, still using them, and have no slippage issue's at all… I’m actually already very confident that they will stay in place through my daily activities. For me, it was an instant improvement in my hearing, but also in the clarity of my comprehension of television shows and music, as well as conversations with the wife between separate rooms in the house. My hearing was just about to the point of “ if I can’t see your face while you’re talking I can’t hear you clearly…” and now I can hear my wife talking to me from the next room with ease. So far, battery life is pretty good…. I’ve been wearing them at home for 3-4 hours a day to ease into them and they still had more than half their charge left, so will het me through a work day without a problem. I’ve worn them for a few weeks and now my brain is trained to balance my hearing and to ignore the presence of the units… but it DID take a few days, a few hours at a time, to get to that point…. So be patient, and take some time getting used to them and finding a comfortable “position” in your ears…you’ll get there and it will be so worth it! For me, this was absolutely the perfect way to test the waters in addressing my inevitable hearing loss … certainly there are much more advanced ( and expensive!) hearing aid options out there, and they may address a wider area of impairment levels etc. - but, for the cost of these well made , easy to use units you can’t beat the benefit and improvement to age related and minor hearing loss. Kudos to Audien Atom…. Such a positive improvement in my everyday quality of life and a very welcome change in my ability to rejoin conversations and things like music and television. Looking forward to using these daily….. I highly recommend the ATOM to anyone looking into an entry level OTC hearing aid. They are a fantastic product that’s effective , affordable and easy to use!!

Purchased the Audien Atom (entry level model) for a very reasonable price. Well packaged with clear instructions - I was up and running within 10 minutes of getting the batteries charged. Really with the videos it is easy to set up. The device seems to be well designed the different sized ear buds allow you to fit it to your ear. The two devices look very small but I ended up using the smallest ear buds -- this surprised me because I am not a small person. They do amplify the sound well -- in fact as well as a $1600 set of hearing aides I purchased from COSTCO two years ago. Those were more sophisticated and allow fine tuning of the sound and also had Blue Tooth which is so great for hearing aides -- but they were the over-the-ear type and that does not fit my life style with wearing glasses and doing exercises in the gym.. I think the sound with the Atom is quite clear and clean for such an inexpensive unit. There is only one hearing program but it seems well designed because I have used in both indoors (large rooms & small rooms, at my computer, in my car, and even talking on the cell phone -- so far it is working quite well -- especially considering the price. It works well outdoors too -- I am hearing high pitched birds like Cedar Waxwings and wood warblers with this device in my ear. Does give a lot of feed back if you put your hand to your ear but this has not caused and issues for me. If I continue to like this base model I may upgrade to Audien's more advanced models with more sophisticated programs. On May 30th , two weeks after purchase I decided that the Atom would not work for me because my right ear canal is too narrow. The Atom was constantly working its way our of the canal and I was afraid it would fall out sometime and I'd lose it. I contacted the Audien customer support and they offered to exchange my Atom hearing aides for a pair of their top-of-the-line Atom 2 Pro hearing aides and they also waived the up-charge so I am getting a set of more sophisticated and expensive model hearing aides for no additional money! I say, hard to beat customer service like that? No company can please everyone all the time but for me Audien has been GREAT.