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Are Larger Hearing Aid Receivers Really Noisier?
Audiology Online: Ask the Expert
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Article
Publication Date
1-5-2012
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Question: I've been fitting a lot of receiver-in-canal (RIC) products, and when I have a patient with good low-frequency hearing, I like to use the smaller gain receiver option because I worry about the larger gain receiver being noisier. Sometimes though, use of the smaller gain receiver makes it difficult to fit prescriptive targets for moderately-severe to severe high frequency hearing loss thresholds. Should I be concerned about larger receivers being noisier?
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Earl E. Johnson. "Are Larger Hearing Aid Receivers Really Noisier?" Audiology Online: Ask the Expert (2012) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/earl-johnson/42/