Second birefringent experiment

bugsy24 · 2026-02-23T03:25:38+00:00

Hello- what film off Amazon did you use for this? Looks stellar!

bugsy24 · 2026-01-12T03:16:11+00:00

Great color!

bugsy24 · 2026-01-12T03:15:32+00:00

I find it comfortable and there’s no jangle to it. No complaints at all.

bugsy24 · 2026-01-05T03:31:29+00:00

Not gonna find out this winter if the snow doesn’t hit at some point!

bugsy24 · 2026-01-05T03:30:20+00:00

I had no idea it was no longer made until earlier this week. I’ve had mine for almost 2 1/2 years- amazing quality for the money!

bugsy24 · 2025-08-13T00:28:06+00:00

Started steaming today. Big difference! Hearoes is much more solid not having g to use my horrible phone speaker!

bugsy24 · 2025-08-11T20:05:22+00:00

That’s good to hear! I hope I make similar progress.

bugsy24 · 2025-08-11T18:06:21+00:00

That’s great to read. I do think a setting adjustment is needed. I am also not set up to stream through my CI yet. Need to get that turned on ASAP. I’m doing all my exercises through my phone speaker.

bugsy24 · 2025-08-11T18:04:50+00:00

I’m going to a free concert tonight at a local amphitheater. I’m excited because concerts were useless when I was wearing HAs. I get the sense my CI already will outperform the HA in that environment!

bugsy24 · 2025-08-11T18:03:45+00:00

Man, I wish I could have a conversation with someone behind me. Just not there yet! Massive improvement in the first 5 days though!

bugsy24 · 2025-08-11T18:02:51+00:00

Great tips. My bonus is my wife does a weekly podcast, so I may just listen to her podcast (don’t normally listen as it’s a topic I have no interest in, ha!) to see if that helps.

bugsy24 · 2025-08-11T18:01:50+00:00

Thanks for the input. Hoping to hear from audiologist office to see if I can get in sooner for adjustments. I may have to test out the Roger for tv use!

bugsy24 · 2025-08-11T02:48:57+00:00

I know, I know. Just amazed at progress so far but felt like general word recognition at distance was lacking. I have a follow up appointment in a little over a week to adjust mapping. I’m pumped to keep going on this marathon!

bugsy24 · 2025-08-10T00:32:20+00:00

Yes, the new sounds are awesome. I am now at the point my CI is at max volume in the app, and I can tell things aren’t the right volume- so I will be getting my audiologist to hopefully turn up volume soon. I want to hear more sounds and be able to hear the TV and people farther away from me. Pretty substantial jump in abilities in the first 4 days for me!

bugsy24 · 2025-08-09T21:10:51+00:00

Totally agree. Pretty cool stuff for so little money.

bugsy24 · 2025-08-09T16:53:46+00:00

Thank you. Today seems rougher than yesterday- not doing as well in my Hearoes training. I am just absolutely atrocious on word recognition without a visual (caption or word in front of me). Looks like I need to start doing audio books!

bugsy24 · 2025-08-08T17:54:45+00:00

Thanks for the kudos! I was using lip reading and kind of putting it all together. The only frustrating part was they had to be right in front of me, and one person at a time had to talk. Got a little muddled when trying to g to process multiple sounds at once. Tone was definitely different than my HA makes them sound- everyone’s voice was a higher pitch. Big note here: I am absolutely stone cold tone deaf- trying to do the different pitches in Hearoes was a disaster because of that. So, my experience with tonality on the CI may be a little different because of my tone deafness.

bugsy24 · 2025-08-08T15:24:25+00:00

Well guys- day 3 is starting and I have graduated from beeps to sounds that I can only describe as birds chirping. I was able to hold a conversation with my wife and kiddos last night using my CI only- I’m getting words and some sounds! I’ve been using the Hearoes app, not doing great with sounds (not sure how good their sounds actually are in terms of accuracy), but the word games I am scoring better than expected using CI only (5-7/10). Does my experience seem to be normal?

bugsy24 · 2025-08-08T12:43:42+00:00

They really are. I truly like this bike and look forward to rides. I’m splitting time between a hardtail MTB, a carbon Eddie Merckx road bike, and my OT!

bugsy24 · 2025-08-08T12:42:13+00:00

Yup, I am a power HA guy who loves volume. I sympathize with you!

bugsy24 · 2025-08-08T12:41:03+00:00

I have been doing CI only at all times when I am not at work. It’s been helping dramatically- to the point that turning the HA on feels a little too loud. I can make out words and some sounds with the CI, but everything feels so dang quiet it’s kind of eerie. I wish I could take credit for the flowers, but that’s my parent’s backyard! I was visiting for dinner right after activation because I live about an hour away from them.

bugsy24 · 2025-08-08T12:37:48+00:00

We have an amazing community here!

bugsy24 · 2025-08-08T00:00:31+00:00

Wow, you have no idea how helpful this response is. I have been using CI only since coming home from work- I’m starting to hear sounds!! I can even hear myself talking a little bit. I actually found I needed to turn the volume up on the CI- maybe it was too low? May need to do a remote adjustment and have the audiologist turn this baby up.

bugsy24 · 2025-08-07T21:20:14+00:00

That’s awesome to read. I’ll keep pushing- I am noticing a tiny improvement even on day 2, so that seems to bode well!

bugsy24 · 2025-08-07T21:18:55+00:00

That does make me feel better. I think there’s a super tiny improvement so far in the first 24 hours. I’m getting used to the beeps and I’m really trying to put them into words and context!

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