Frankly speaking, I am all impressed with the Shure’s sound-isolating SE420 earbuds and the Phonak Group’s barely visible PCAs. Now, we have Epoq hearing aids from the house of Oticon. The most striking feature of the Oticon Epoq is the price tag that reads £10,000 (US $20,475). That makes me mum, literally. The pair is wirelessly connected via Bluetooth to deliver more accurate 3D sound images inside the wearer’s head. With Epoq, you’ll be able to locate whether the sound is coming from the front or back, or from the left or right. The hearing aids tout interface that plugs into a phone or an MP3 player to stream stereo music and phone calls into the earpieces, thanks to the intelligent Epoq Streamer. But, for a phone like iPhone that lacks Bluetooth A2DP stereo streaming, the wearer can use it as a mere phone, not a music player, with Epoq aid. Well, the Shure’s SE420 and the PCAs are dirt cheap. Aren’t they?
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