Only doing this to keep my marriage intact. Have heard that Costco is the best quality for the buck. On a recent visit, picked up pamphlets and brought them home. The brands are Kirkland, ReSound, Rexton, Phonac Brio, and Phillips. They all look similar in design and they all are within about $100 of each other. I need to get back there and ask questions but any comments or suggestions. Not sure why they would offer five different brands, which seem so similar.

Many brands so you can get a brand you are pre-sold on.

Kirkland brand is made by one of the others listed if I recall correctly. My Kirkland brand have lasted over 10 years. Check your prices again as Kirkland should be way less.

Vtail has the answer on this one. He will be along shortly.

I bought my Phonac there, lots less money than at a stand alone hearing aid place. I wore mine into the shower once, luckily it was still in the first year of purchase, and they were repaired for free.

My last pair of hearing aides from Costco was the ReSound brand.. I liked them, but I had to have a separate unit to pair the hearing aids via Bluetooth to my phone.

I now have the Kirkland brand, and I love them. Pair with Android and Apple phones without extra gadgets, good sound. App on the phone allows me to adjust sound level in both or either ear.

I also drop my hearing aides off at Costco's hearing center when we go up there, and they clean them and service them for free.

My wife and I got the ReSound and are very happy with them.

Some of the difference is features and some work better depending on your specific type of loss.

We test drove the cheapest, I noticed a big improvement in the ReSound which were the next ones up at the time (2018). They sounded very different from each other, best way I could describe the difference was the lowest price ones sounded like an amplifier in my ear, the ReSounds sounded like I just heard better, more natural.

Kirkland Signature 9.0
Premium Digital Hearing Instruments

$1,499 a pair


https://www.costco.com/kirklan...ure-hearing-aid.html

I have the previous model and highly recommend them. This price for a pair is about what the others are for each one. I have had mine repaired under warranty. They pair with my iPhone without any problems. Excellent sound quality and features.

If I'm not mistaken, my Costco hearing aids were branded Kirkland but actually made by Resound.

They have an app for my iPhone and I use the bluetooth capability for listening to songs when I walk. Of course that reduces the life of the batteries. Average battery life for me is about 4 days

Costco was far less expensive, by about half, than the first pair I bought from an Audiologist.

No complaints here.

I have been using Phonak aids for years. 8? have been good. One of them needs some repair work now. According to my chief financial advisor (aka wife) they will do a complete rebuild for $135.

I used miracle ear aids for a couple years, had to keep going back for service, etc. Every time I went back they wanted to sell me a new pair. Last time there they wanted $11K for the new ones.

On the way home, I decided to stop at Costco and see what they had to offer. Walked out with a pair of their best ones. For 3K.

Their service has always been excellent.

Make an appointment with a Costco audiologist. There will be a hearing test, FREE. Your hearing loss will be recorded in their computer, and one or more sets of hearing aids will be programmed by the computer to compensate for your hearing loss.

You can test drive the hearing aids in the store. Maybe test drive two (or more) different ones, to see which suit you best.

All of the above is at no cost.

Once you find what works for you, the hearing aids will be ordered. They will probably tell you seven to ten days, but FedEx will likely deliver them to the store sooner than that.

The new hearing aids will be connected to their computer and programmed to your hearing loss data, which had been stored when your hearing was tested.

Use your Costco VISA card to pay for them; the warranty will be extended (maybe an additional year?), it won't cost you anything for the extended warranty, and of course you will get 2% cash back on that card.

There is a decent period during which you can return the hearing aids for full refund in the unlikely event that they do not do the job for you.

Costco will service the hearing aids for as long as you own them, most repairs are at no charge. They will replace the domes (the part that you stick into your ear) at no charge, as often as you want. Mine start to become a little "oogy" after two or three months, so if I have any question about them I stop at the audio department when I'm in Costco for shopping (toilet paper is back in stock!).

Get your batteries at Costco. 48 batteries for $8.99 (less than nineteen cents each). I have seen hearing aid batteries priced as much as five times higher in drug stores!

You can find a little pocket-size gadget on Amazon or eBay, for maybe $3.99, that is a hearing aid battery tester with a drawer that holds a couple of spare batteries. I keep one of those at my desk in the hangar office, and another in my Maxpedition bag, so if my hearing starts to sound fuzzier than usual, I can test the batteries and put spares in.

The audiologist did not mention this to me, but the batteries are activated by exposure to air, so when inserting new ones, pull the protective tab off and then let the batteries sit for a minute or two before installing them in the hearing aids. The will be stronger and likely last longer.

A useful accessory is a small microphone that can transmit directly to the hearing aids. It can be clipped to your wife's blouse. I find it great in settings like a noisy restaurant, where it will pick up my wife's voice and make her speech much clearer, over-riding the background noise. Of course, the other side of that coin is the "spouse switch," which mutes the hearing aids completely.

There is also a little box available that plugs into a TV or any other audio source with a similar headphone jack and transmits the sound directly to the hearing aids.

Ask here, or feel free to email me, if you have further questions.

Went to Costco for my Moms hearing aids. Went with the Kirkland brand. There techs were very good. The hearing aids were great. Batteries were VERY cheap and good quality. All in all Costco is doing the hearing impaired a great service and saving them alot of money. You won't be sorry.

Tried them for 6 month period but wife said she couldn't see that they helped at all.
I agreed. My problem is tinnitus, ringing sound, and the ringing still made sounds hard to interpret so to speak.
Took them back for refund.

I got mine from Costco, seems all the folks I asked used them. I got the Phillips Hearlink rechargeables, $2700.00. I chose Phillips on a friends recommendation. I'm a year in and they've been very good. Like V-Tail stated, they do all the service, I go in every three months and have the domes replaced.

I currently have Costco KS6 (Resound MFG) hearing aids. Going on four years with no issues. Cost was $1699/pair.

Approximately every 18 months Costco comes out with a house brand (KS) hearing aid The current Hearing aid is KS9 and has been available about 12 months. The KS9 is a Phonak which is similar to the Phonak Marvel model with some features removed.

Be sure to compare features when evaluating hearing aids. For example current KS9 does not have T-coil.

My experience with Costco hearing center has been very good. Going in for a “test & tune” in two weeks. The adjustments are included in purchase price.

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Only doing this to keep my marriage intact

Same, I had a really hard time hearing my wife and daughters high pitched voices and they were getting sick of it. I don't really have a problem at work though and don't wear them there. So now, when I can't hear her (which is rare now) I point to my hearing aids in my ear and give her that look " it's not me, it's you"

I bought them about a year ago following V-Tails advice including the Costco card. As bigguy said about $1500, includes exam and all. These have bluetooth and an app where you can adjust volume and change between programs. Mine have a normal program and one for noisy environments

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
Make an appointment with a Costco audiologist. There will be a hearing test, FREE. Your hearing loss will be recorded in their computer, and one or more sets of hearing aids will be programmed by the computer to compensate for your hearing loss.

You can test drive the hearing aids in the store. Maybe test drive two (or more) different ones, to see which suit you best.

All of the above is at no cost.
[other excellent advice snipped for brevity]

Yeah, it truly is a no-brainer. I did this, test drove several (they have samples there they program based on the hearing test just done) and wound up liking the Phonak Brio 3 R-C best.

To set expectations, what transpires is that you order the devices, they get made to your spec (color, etc.) and then the audiologist calls you when they come in to set up an appointment to get them set up. Mine (couple years ago) took about 10 days to arrive, and the appointment was set for a couple days later.

Also, as a buyer there, you can stop by for free consumables as you need them anytime you're in any Costco.

Now, one caveat (minor, but it's there) of getting your aids at Costco. Those - even the non-Costco branded ones - are models not sold elsewhere, and I don't believe they are serviced elsewhere either.

Another tip. Run, don't walk, and get the current edition to the buyer's guide for hearing aid owners. This will be the best $10 you spend on this project: Amazon link to Kindle edition: "2020 Edition: Little Book of Hearing Aids."

Without background, the models and brand descriptions all blended together; this is how I learned the features I needed (but didn't know I needed) and the features I didn't need (or wanted to avoid.)

I believe my Costco hearing aids are Siemens produced.

It really is a no brainer. Unless you've got serious medical issues, it's hard to beat Costco.

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Originally posted by joel9507:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
Make an appointment with a Costco audiologist. There will be a hearing test, FREE. Your hearing loss will be recorded in their computer, and one or more sets of hearing aids will be programmed by the computer to compensate for your hearing loss.

You can test drive the hearing aids in the store. Maybe test drive two (or more) different ones, to see which suit you best.

All of the above is at no cost.
[other excellent advice snipped for brevity]

Yeah, it truly is a no-brainer. I did this, test drove several (they have samples there they program based on the hearing test just done) and wound up liking the Phonak Brio 3 R-C best.

To set expectations, what transpires is that you order the devices, they get made to your spec (color, etc.) and then the audiologist calls you when they come in to set up an appointment to get them set up. Mine (couple years ago) took about 10 days to arrive, and the appointment was set for a couple days later.

Also, as a buyer there, you can stop by for free consumables as you need them anytime you're in any Costco.

Now, one caveat (minor, but it's there) of getting your aids at Costco. Those - even the non-Costco branded ones - are models not sold elsewhere, and I don't believe they are serviced elsewhere either.

Another tip. Run, don't walk, and get the current edition to the buyer's guide for hearing aid owners. This will be the best $10 you spend on this project: Amazon link to Kindle edition: "2020 Edition: Little Book of Hearing Aids."

Without background, the models and brand descriptions all blended together; this is how I learned the features I needed (but didn't know I needed) and the features I didn't need (or wanted to avoid.)

What if you dont have a Kindle?

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What if you dont have a Kindle?

Download the Kindle App on your iDevice(s)

We bought a set for my Dad recently through Costco. They were $1800. He seems to tolerate them.