Eargo 8 Hearing Aids Review: Too Expensive

It’s been more than 2 years since Eargo past updated its hearing aid hardware, and that’s not a slight: Eargo makes immoderate good products that person successfully stood nan trial of time. Upgrades for nan liking of upgrades are ne'er a bully idea.

But nan hearing aid world of coming is successful flux, and it’s opening to diverge from nan measurement it looked backmost successful 2023. Not only is exertion changing, but truthful is nan business landscape. Namely, Eargo precocious merged pinch hearX (maker of nan Lexie marque proceeding aids), forming a genitor institution called LXE. The premium Eargo marque remains unchanged, but consolidation for illustration this is usually a motion that prices whitethorn travel down arsenic nan shaper scenery shakes retired a bit.

Alas, don’t clasp your activity that Eargo, which has ever had costly hardware, will beryllium cutting prices immoderate clip soon. In fact, pinch nan Eargo 8, nan institution has released its priciest proceeding immunodeficiency to date, though nan value of nan merchandise is compelling capable to merit astatine slightest immoderate level of consideration.

Smarter Aids

Like astir each of Eargo’s models, nan Eargo 8 are afloat in-the-ear proceeding aids, designed explicitly to support size astatine a minimum. At 0.94 grams each, nan tiny, cylindrical Eargo 8 are functionally nan aforesaid size arsenic nan Eargo 7 and Eargo 5 earlier them, though a spot much bulbous—almost bottle-shaped—rather than cylindrical.

The existent upgrades are nether nan hood. The biggest update involves nan measurement nan Eargo 8 handles noise. A caller characteristic called Smart Sound Adjust “analyzes your situation and automatically adjusts to nan sound levels erstwhile entering a noisy edifice aliases crowded place,” nan thought being that nan app will tweak its sound cancellation levels automatically successful consequence to ambient sound. The different added characteristic is simply a instrumentality scanner, which Eargo describes arsenic an on-demand “wellness check” for your aids, ensuring they aren’t clogged pinch earwax. In nan app, nan on-demand Device Scan requires you to return nan Eargo 8 proceeding immunodeficiency to nan charging lawsuit and, aft a fewer minutes, reports nan results of its speaker and microphone tests. (So far, I person only seen “Passed” results.)

In regular use, I recovered nan Eargo 8 proceeding immunodeficiency to beryllium top-notch, pinch nary discernible quality successful value complete nan Eargo 7. I recovered my sound to beryllium a spot over-amplified—a communal title pinch proceeding aids—with nary bully measurement to set it. Otherwise, proceeding support was solid, pinch nary hiss and immoderate feedback constricted to insignificant instances erstwhile removing aliases inserting nan aids. Like astir high-quality proceeding aids, nan units provided maine pinch conscionable a mean boost wherever I needed it nan most, and nan auto-adjust sound cancellation seemed to activity well, though there’s nary denotation arsenic to really overmuch sound cancellation is being applied astatine immoderate time.

That’s because, for illustration each of Eargo’s premium aids, connection betwixt nan immunodeficiency and nan Eargo app is simply a one-way street. You tin usage nan app to alteration measurement aliases biology programs, but nan immunodeficiency don’t study their position backmost to nan app. All changes are confirmed erstwhile nan immunodeficiency beep a mates of times successful your ear, only offering a sound consequence erstwhile measurement hits “min” aliases “max” aliases erstwhile changing biology modes.