My world sounds colorful again!

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1 DB-MH Hansaton XearA collection. Your hearing system professional and HANSATON are waiting to hear from you. You can find out more about the HANSATON hearing instruments from your local hearing professionals or on the Internet at My world sounds colorful again! Hansaton Akustik GmbH Sachsenkamp Hamburg Tel Fax

2 Contents Welcome to Hansaton. For a new generation of hearing instrument wearers. 4 Hearing and understanding. Our second sense: how it works and what happens when it wanes. 6 9 Manufacturing hearing. HANSATON has been helping people hear well for over 50 years XearA technology. Bringing color back to the hearing experience For all individual requirements. HANSATON hearing instruments and remote controls Coming up next. Hear much better in the future

3 Welcome to Hansaton. The world is colorful. Bring some color back into your life again. Don t you agree? Life has simply too many colorful sounds that it would be a shame to miss from individual snippets of conversations in a lively group or a fleeting quip on the telephone to the sound of the wind rustling through the trees as you stroll through the countryside. But what happens when these powers of perception fail you and the audio images start to fade? Then something is missing. Almost as if the fresh colors of everyday life have simply been washed away. Here at Hansaton we have developed a technology that returns the missing notes to you. Become part of a new generation of hearing instrument wearers, who are now enjoying the colorful sounds of the world again. XearA technology by HANSATON brings color back to the hearing experience. 4 5

4 HEARING AND UNDERSTANDING. With our eyes, with our brains, or with our hearts how do we actually hear? 1 Sound is a movement of air guided through the concha to the auditory canal. At the end of the auditory canal, the sound collides with the eardrum and makes it vibrate. The sound is then conveyed to the inner ear via the chain of auditory ossicles. Hair cells convert the movement there into electrical impulses, which are transmitted to the brain via the auditory nerve The brain processes what the ear picks up. Where does a sound come from, how loud is it, is it a word, and, if yes, what does it mean? By the time we grow up, we are already listening from experience. We block out noises that we have learned are not important, such as continual background noises. But emotional significance also plays a role. The gentle sobbing of a baby will wake mothers from the deepest sleep although other, louder noises have not disturbed them. Our speech comprehension depends on the extent to which we learn a language. After all, auditory comprehension is not the job of the ear, but rather of the brain. Everything that the brain does, it needs to practice. 1) concha Auricula 2) auditory canal Meatus acusticus externus 3) ear drum Membrana tympani 4) auditory ossicle Ossicula auditus Outer ear Middle ear Inner ear 6 6) eustachian tubes Tuba auditiva 7) semicircular canals Canales semicirculares ossei 8) cochlea Cochlea 9) auditory nerve Nervus acusticus 5) oval window Fenestra ovalis The ear is composed of the outer ear and the middle ear for picking up, bundling, and transmitting sounds. In the inner ear, the sound vibrations are then converted into neural impulses. The anterior cartilaginous section of the auditory canal contains glands, which produce cerumen (ear wax), and cilia which transport the wax to the outside. As such, you could say that the ear cleans itself. The inner ear is home to the semicircular canals (our organ of balance) and the cochlea. The cochlea contains approximately 12,000 outer and 3,000 inner hair nerve cells, which are responsible for converting the sound into neural impulses. The outer hair nerve cells allow fine differentiation of pitch and volume. 6 7

5 Identifying hearing loss. Relaxed hearing improves quality of life. Others are usually the first to realize that someone can t hear as well any more. Family members and friends notice that you have to ask people to repeat themselves more often, speak unusually loud on the telephone, or have the television so loud that the whole neighborhood can hear it. You yourself feel exhausted quickly and try to avoid situations which are uncomfortable for you, for example: conversations involving larger groups of people or lots of background noise. Reduced hearing can have a range of different effects on your life, predominantly on the contact you have with those around you. Speech becomes indistinct and you don t hear some words correctly at all. Now is the right time to do something about it. There are a number of different causes of hearing loss. The severity of the hearing difficulty can be represented in an individual tone audiogram.this is done by measuring the hearing threshold for different frequencies, in other words, the volume at which you hear a note for the first time. The severity of the hearing reduction can then be determined depending on how low this hearing threshold is. People often do not to hear all frequencies equally well or equally badly: Hearing loss is frequency-dependent. This also explains why you often don t even notice the first signs of hearing loss yourself. Hearing reduction creeps up on you slowly. Your brain gets used to not hearing certain sounds. These tired zones first need to be retrained. Wearing a hearing system helps you step by step to start perceiving sounds again that you had already forgotten ages ago. Then you can easily understand the person you are speaking with again. Don t allow your hearing to get tired. The earlier you decide to start using a hearing system, the easier it will be to return to hearing everything again. There is no reason to let another day go by with an imperfect hearing experience. Quiet db Hl 0 Low j z v md b n o i c h sh a ng r e l u Vowels p h g k t f s th Consonant Medium High Severity of hearing loss Example hearing loss 100 Bordering on deafness Loud k 1,5k 2k 3k 4k 6k 8k Hz Low High 8 9

6 Manufacturing hearing. We make many people happy every day: after all, everyone wants to hear well, When Uwe Fischer joined his father s acoustics company many years ago, he was primarily occupied with one question: How is it possible to reactivate one of the senses which is most important for vibrant interaction? Blindness separates us from things, deafness separates us from people. Even so long ago, Immanuel Kant knew that. So Uwe Fischer founded his own development department and started with hearing and intercommunication systems for schools for the deaf and hearing impaired, followed by the development of hearing instruments. He shares his passion for helping people to hear well again with his sons, and also with every employee at the successful hearing instrument manufacturer HANSATON and many partners across the world. hearing & emotions is a living reality at HANSATON. High technology and design, made in Germany. After years of pioneering technical work, HANSATON managed an international breakthrough at the end of the 1960s with the legendary 133 BI-HT-PC. The hearing instrument with the complicated name was the first dual-channel device in which speech recognition and hearing comfort were innovatively separated and individually optimized. This innovation was but the first of many over the next five decades. It is a nice thought that today nobody has to do without a full hearing experience. Whether the hearing loss is minimal or severe, tiny high-performance chips in just as tiny and attractive systems balance it out precisely and automatically optimize every hearing situation for you. Find out more now in this brochure. The Fischer family wishes you, your family, and your friends a new era of color in your hearing experience. In addition to the technology, the cosmetic elements and design of the hearing instrument also gained in importance. HANSATON was also successful in this respect and was awarded a number of international awards. Today, the company is one of the most decorated in the industry. Sincerely, the Fischer family Uwe Fischer Andreas Fischer Johannes Fischer 10 11

7 Discover XearA technology. The XearA technology heralds a new era of hearing: We re on board, what about you? Discover the new generation of technology from HANSATON. With its innovative functions, XearA technology ensures that you are ready to handle any hearing situation. XearA has the fastest digital processor on the market, with up to 40 channels of digital processing to analyze every incoming sound and fine tune the instrument to fit your every need and every listening environment. Understand speech with no problems and hear every sound. XearA technology with its innovative speech recognition feature Conversation Lift helps you to communicate without stress, even in situations with lots of ambient noise and disruptions, and the new HiFi features offer an expanded bandwidth to make sounds more brilliant than ever. Enjoy personalized hearing comfort and reclaim lost sounds. After living with a hearing loss in a relatively quiet world, you will enjoy the Intelligent Acclimatization Manager, which helps you gradually re-enter a world of vibrant sound. In addition, the new Sound Restore frequency compression feature allows even a severe hearing loss to benefit from the widest possible range of speech sounds. Meanwhile the Situation Optimizer categorizes incoming sounds, automatically adjusting the hearing instruments to give you maximum hearing and maximum comfort

8 Experience XearA technology. We are bringing color back into the hearing experience: Converse in company. Situations with a lot of noise, such as in restaurants or family gatherings pose, particular challenges when it comes to speech understanding. With their sophisticated adaptive directional microphone system, your hearing instruments automatically orients itself to the required speech. XearA technology recognizes and reduces disruptive noise and amplifies speech. The revolutionary Conversation Lift feature offers unparalleled improvement in speech understanding in a noisy room. Optimal telephone communication without annoying whistling. XearA s automatic situation control and voice recognition enable you to follow telephone conversations effectively on a landline or mobile phone, assisted by the new Feedback X feature, which represents a milestone in anti-feedback technology. Alternatively, HANSATON offers remote controls with Bluetooth capability to connect your cell phone directly to both hearing aids for the very best telephone signal. Take in the atmosphere at a concert or in the theater. Especially beneficial, particularly for classical concerts: XearA technology offers an extraordinarily broad bandwidth, enhancing both high and low tones for full musical quality and transmitting fine nuances in the sound for the greatest listening pleasure. Watch television as you like to. Good comprehension and a comfortable sound quality: This is pure enjoyment in television. XearA technology independently optimizes the sound. Furthermore, a tailored TV hearing program can be set up for you or a connection to your TV set established via a Bluetooth remote control. Your hearing instruments become your own individualized TV headsets

9 Experience XearA technology. When you are surrounded by noise. You know the feeling: sometimes you simply don t know what to listen to first. You are being bombarded with different sounds from all directions. In this situation, XearA technology has a remarkable ability to classify which sounds should be suppressed, and which sounds should be reproduced in harmony, allowing you to remain calm and comfortable. Enjoy peace again. Do you like the outdoors? Great: Active Wind Block will reduce the wind whistling in your ears on blustery autumn days. At the same time, the sensitive microphone picks up everything that is nice to hear, like the tweeting of birds, for example. Drive cars and communicate comfortably. Cars are intrinsically noisy places, often making conversation virtually impossible. XearA s Speech Beam technology ensures that speech is perceived well from all directions, even from the side or the back. At the same time it effectively suppresses disruptive noise. ANTARO, INARA and SORINO: three names for your personal pleasurable hearing experience. ANTARO INARA SORINO Signal processing Real HiFi (up to 10 khz) Conversation Lift Artificial HiFi 3 steps 2 steps Intelligent Acclimatization Manager Acclimatization Manager Frequency Compression (Sound Restore) Situation Optimizer Sound Impulse Management 3 steps 3 steps On/off Speech recognition 5 steps 5 steps 4 steps Noise reduction 5 steps 5 steps 4 steps Feedback Management (Feedback X) 3 steps 3 steps 3 steps Open X Reduction of wind noise Microphone system Automatic Speech Beam Speech Beam Natural Sound Dir adaptive Omni Basic data Number of channels (G/AGC) 18/18 16/16 12/12 Number of microphones Number of programs Signal transmission / binaural hearing Bluetooth function Bi-Com Accessories Remote control Your hearing professional will be delighted to inform you in detail of the individual functions

10 All hearing Instruments. Personal preferences and technical possibilities: which design is right for me? Revolutionary technology in exclusive designs: HANSATON has designed elegant cases for the new XearA technology. Depending on your hearing loss and personal wishes, you can choose from custom In-The-Ear hearing instruments, the tiny X-Micro, the new, comfortable X-Mini, and the elegant Mini. Whatever decision you make, all HANSATON hearing instruments will impress you with their esthetics and intelligence. To this end, engineers and designers at the company work tirelessly to exceed your expectations enjoy the results! CIC Deep X-Micro X-Mini Mini HANSATON In-The-Ear and Behind- The-Ear hearing instruments offer the highest performance both inside and outside. Find out more about the individual models on the following pages

11 All hearing Instruments. HANSATON Wireless Capabilities: a trio of benefits. Most HANSATON hearing instruments contain a tiny wireless transmitter/receiver that provides three clear benefits: Hearing instruments that operate like miniature headsets to receive Bluetooth wireless transmissions from cell phones, televisions, stereos and other sound sources. Synchronization of digital processing between the right and left hearing instruments to give the best possible sound. The option of a convenient wireless remote control. 2 MP3 players and laptops with Bluetooth transmitters can use Bluetooth to connect to the remote control wirelessly. In addition tothe minimedia, the Bluetooth-enabled Media and the classic emote2 remote control are also available. The hearing instruments communicate wirelessly with the remote control: you can hear films, music, and telephone calls in both ears. mini Two telephones, e.g. a Bluetooth-enabled mobile and a landline telephone can be used with the remote control without being paired again. Just pick up or end the call directly. The remote control can work with two external transmitters, allowing connections to multiple audio devices with no replugging. T In public facilities with inductive hearing systems, the remote control feeds speech and sounds directly from the ring loop into the hearing instrument via an induction coil. Televisions and stereo systems connect with the remote control via the transmitter, providing a resonant stereo experience in the hearing instruments themselves. The remote control has a direct audio input connection (DAI input) for the FM receiver, allowing excellent speech understanding at home and at school. 20 New: Speech Connect is a special minimedia microphone/transmitter combination. At a conference, for example, or in a noisy restaurant, it transmits the talker s voice wirelessly to the hearing instruments, overcoming the obstacles of noise and distance. 21

12 X-Micro hearing Instrument. Uncompromisingly small: X-Micro from HANSATON. This is the premiere of the tiniest Behind-The-Ear hearing instrument available: X-Micro from HANSATON is an ultralight gem of a hearing instrument. Thanks to a tiny, revolutionary receiver, positioned directly in the ear instead of in the hearing instrument, the X-Mini offers excellent sound quality and comfort in a housing that could be mistaken for a piece of jewelry, complete with a diamond-shaped program pushbutton. HANSATON designers have developed top-end digital processing features even in such a stylish case. With the X-Micro, XearA technology offers the best of hearing instrument performance in its most appealing form. NEW: water-resistant! IP 57 certified X-Micro actual size. Modern shape and fine colors: Discover X-Micro by HANSATON in seven exclusive colors. Gold Beige Bronze White Silver Black Grey X-Micro by HANSATON. Modern receiver-in-the-canal Behind-The-Ear hearing instrument from HANSATON. Suitable for mild to profound hearing losses

13 X-Mini hearing Instrument. The multitalent: X-Miniby HANSATON. Thanks to XearA technology and a new, improved receiver in the ear canal, the HANSATON X-Mini produces excellent sound despite its small size and high style. This is accompanied by optimized directional hearing thanks to the improved positioning on the ear. The addition of an integrated telephone coil contributes to improved speech understanding on the telephone and in rooms equipped with induction loop listening systems, such as churches and public buildings. The X-Mini features a programmable control element that lets you alter the hearing program, volume or tonal balance. Thanks to its elegant finish, the HANSATON X-Mini is a winning combination of style and substance. X-Mini actual size. Choose from six attractive colors! Grey Black White Beige Bronze Silver X-Mini by HANSATON. Designer Behind-The-Ear hearing instrument from HANSATON. Suitable for mild to severe hearing losses

14 Mini hearing Instrument. An especially good-looking helper behind the ear: Mini by HANSATON. Prize-winning designer housing with that little something extra: The XearA in the HANSATON Mini hearing instrument represents the technology of a whole new generation. A barely visible tube delivers the world of sounds to your auditory canal. Alternatively, the Mini can use a standard earmold and tube. A program button allows convenient changing of the hearing program directly on the hearing instrument. Mini actual size. As far as the design is concerned, the Mini offers a range of sophisticated aspects: The elegant two-tone special finish guarantees a slender look, and the chic wave design adds an extra accent. Gold Beige Bronze Pearl Silver Grey Black Mini by HANSATON. Designer Behind-The-Ear hearing instrument from HANSATON. Suitable for mild to severe hearing losses

15 In-The-Ear hearing Instruments. Varied, almost invisible and extremely comfortable: In-The-Ear -hearing instruments by HANSATON. HANSATON offers four natural colors on the visible surface of the instrument, designed to match your skin tone as closely as possible. The design of an almost invisible hearing system is a challenge we are only too eager to meet. After all, HANSATON is better at this fine art than almost anyone else. HANSATON creates a tailored In-The-Ear design for you which fits so perfectly that you hardly notice it. In-The-Ear hearing instruments from HANSATON are available in five different models, all of which fit comfortably and securely in your ear. Your hearing professional achieves this by taking an individual impression of your ear canal and then using this template to manufacture your personal hearing instrument with digital precision in just a few days. The result: Hearing instrument anatomically fitted to the ear Perfectly matched to skin color HANSATON CIC: our smallest ever. The CIC Deep disappears into the ear completely and can be pulled out with a small pull string. CIC Open is equipped with maximum venting for maximum wearing comfort. And CIC Power is suitable for severe hearing losses. The right design for every hearing loss: CIC Open For added hearing comfort CIC Deep Smallest possible ITE design CIC Power Great support in minuscule form CIC Deep CIC Mini Canal Canal Concha 28 29

16 Coming up next. Glad to have you on board. We re delighted that you want to find out more about our hearing instruments. That is the first step towards an improved quality of life thanks to relaxed hearing and understanding. Now you only need to decide: am I a HANSATON Behind-The- Ear or a HANSATON In-The-Ear type of guy or gal? The best thing is to try it out for yourself. You can do this with the help of your local hearing professional, who will explain everything to you clearly. Discover for yourself how great it is when the hearing world takes on color again. Here s to a bright and beautiful time! 30 31