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(EMAILWIRE.COM, January 29, 2010 ) Lake Forest, IL - When it comes to choosing hearing aids, patients have to weigh factors such as hearing aid features and cost. While analog models used to be the only option available, now patients can choose from many types of digital hearing aids as well. A basic question is: are the additional features of digital hearing aids enough to justify purchasing them over analog hearing aids?
“Both analog and digital hearing aids have the same goal," says Phil Wyatt, CEO of Hearing Central LLC. “Each is designed to increase the volume of sounds reaching the ear drum to help the hearing-impaired have an easier time understanding speech. Both types of hearing aids start with a microphone to gather sound waves and convert them into electrical energy. Then an amplifier increases the strength of that electrical energy before a receiver converts it into louder sound waves that the patient can hear. While the processes of both analog and digital hearing aids seem very similar on the surface, the difference is what happens in between. With analog hearing aids, all sounds passing through the hearing aid remain analog, whereas with digital hearing aids, the sounds are converted to digital zeros and ones and pass through a small computer chip where they can be manipulated to enhance the sounds."
One of the biggest differences in how sound is amplified in analog hearing aids versus digital hearing aids is in how they each deal with background noises. While both can amplify quiet sounds while minimizing already-loud sounds to protect what is left of the patient's hearing, analog hearing aids don't differentiate between a conversation nearby and background noise such as the noises in a crowded restaurant. Digital hearing aids are able to analyze bits of data through digital signal processing -- a process that occurs before sounds are converted back into electrical energy and then back into audible sounds. The algorithms involved in this processing allows digital hearing aids to be more customized than analog models, with many designed to automatically decrease steady background noise.
Hearing Central LLC manufactures and sells two digital hearing aid lines through www.HearingAidsCentral.com; the digi-Ear in the ear hearing aids and the Melody open fit hearing aids. Both models meet FDA standards. All hearing aids from Hearing Central LLC include a 12 month manufacturer's warranty. Because the company cuts out the middleman and sells the hearing aids they manufacture directly to consumers, their digital hearing aids can be sold for thousands less than comparable models sold through hearing professionals. Patients interested in learning more about the technological differences between analog and digital hearing aids should visit http://www.hearingaidscentral.com/hearingaidtech.asp.
About Hearing Central LLC
Hearing Central LLC is an Illinois-based manufacturer and Internet retailer of hearing aids. The company is committed to bringing consumers top quality, American-made hearing aids at wholesale prices. They pride themselves on offering affordable hearing aids at up to a 75% discount when compared to similar models sold in hearing professional offices. All models are manufactured and sold according to FDA standards. Hearing Central is a sister company of Medical Central Online and Patient Net, which have provided medical solutions and consulting services to hospitals, nursing homes, and home care agencies since 1996.
For more information about Hearing Central LLC, to arrange an interview, or to learn more about cost-efficient hearing aid options, please visit www.HearingAidsCentral.com, or contact Phil Wyatt at 847-295-6946.
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Phil Wyatt, CEO
Hearing Central LLC
Phone: 847-295-6946
Email: phil@hearingcentral.com
Web: www.HearingAidsCentral.com
Hearing Aids Central
Phil Wyatt
847-295-6946
phil@hearingcentral.com 
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