This is an update to my review on… This is an update to my review on February 3,2024. The experience I wrote about was all valid and all that I described happened but shortly thereafter I received a call from the supervisor in Baton Rouge, LA, who said to me that the situation did need to be remedied. I was beyond grateful because up to that point I felt that they didn’t care. New hearing aids with the cross wave technology were ordered for me and they use regular batteries instead of the digital ones that were so unreliable for some with such severe hearing loss. In addition to that I was referred to Michelle Macione at the Slidell, LA Audible office to get the new aids. Ms. Macione was wonderful and she adjusted the aids so that I am now hearing so much better than ever before. She will continue to adjust them to provide an even better hearing experience as my brain acclimates to each adjustment. I am so pleased to have the benefit of her abilities and experience and I intend to continue to go to that office for all future appointments. I am so grateful to the supervisor in Baton Rouge and to Ms. Macione for their provision of service and restoring my faith in Audible.

Would not recommend I had an appointment at a local office of Audibel in Hamilton, New Jersey on 2-22-24. I was waiting and waiting and finally I called to see if my hearing aids were ready. No response. Called again. Same thing. So I went to Penn Medicine and ordered hearing aids from them. I just wonder what kind of an operation gives you a hearing test and no follow up. Strange....

Three months after after the 2 year… Three months after the 2 year Audibel warranty lapsed, the rechargeable batteries failed to stay charged a full 8 hour day! Initially they stayed charged a full 12hours. Upon presenting the aids to Audibel, they told me the rechargeable batteries are not covered under their warranty. New batteries cost $399 each!! That is absurd!!! They would not do anything for me! Rechargeable hearing aid batteries are less than a tenth of that cost on the internet! What a rip off!!

The products are lower quality than Oticon The products are lower quality than, say an oticon. My insurance was paying $6,000. Audible office in Melbourne (now closed) “John” ordered the crummiest hearing aids they sold, hoping that I would accept them. I did not, this was just the start. I finally got invisible in the canal, like the oticon I had. John tried like crazy to eliminate the hissing and warberling. After many tries of sending them back and tuning I had enough and just took them and figured I would just live with them. And then they broke, rebuild time, not even one year under warrantee, then broke again, and again, and again. Now costing me $400 per repair, 1 year warrantee. Then the office closed in Melbourne and I had to drive 5 towns away. Another two repairs, getting expensive. And that office closed too, now I have to go to Orlando, 60 miles away for another repair. Top it all off they DON’T sound good, lots of hiss and background noise. If I am in a restaurant, I can hear the kitchen clatter, but not the person sitting next to me. Save yourself the grief, don’t buy audible Starkey brand. My honest $.02.

This review is to update my submission… This review is to update my submission on 25th December 2023. I have now been using Audibel Intrigue 24 aids for over 3 months. In my first review I criticised the unreliability of the Bluetooth connection to the 'My Audibel app' on my Samsung S10e mobile phone. Since then I have changed my device to the latest phone with the latest One UI, Android 14 and Bluetooth 5.3 software. This has now solved the problem. What is amazing is that my natural hearing while not wearing the aids (during the night, first thing in the morning and last thing at night) has dramatically improved, not enough to be able to dispense with using the aids during the day, but enough to give me confidence and pleasure. I would now have no hesitation in recommending Audibel or Alan my Audiologist Hearbrite in North Wales as he was right when he said the problem was with my old phones technology.