SEBOTEK TESTEMONIALS

We can talk about benefits all day long, but there is no better endorsement than those provided by SeboTek’s users, the actual customers whose quality of life has been improved by using the PAC devices. The following are just a few of the testimonials we have received about our products:

PAC Hearing Instruments 'Music' To Former Music Teacher's Ears

I just want to write a personal thank you to the many individuals who have made my life easier by the products and services you provide. I am astounded by the quality of your PAC hearing aids!

The thing I like most about my PAC hearing aids is the comfort. I wear them from the time I wake up until I go to bed for the night and hardly notice I have them on. They are discreetly small, but powerful enough to enable me to be comfortable in many situations from quiet conversation to the concert hall.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for creating the marvelous hearing instruments and for giving "normal" hearing back to me.

A very grateful customer,
CJW, Tulsa, OK

Marketing Exec Says PACs Are As Close To Natural Hearing As She Remembers

I recently was asked by my Audiologist to test your newest hearing aid. I lost my hearing in my middle 20's and have been dealing with old fashioned CIC (completely-in-the-canal) aids for the past eight years.

Within the first 30 seconds of trying [the PAC] I told my Audiologist that these were the closest I remember to natural hearing. The other cool thing—I forget I have them on! After testing them for the past two weeks, I find myself in bed and realize I still have my hearing aids on! Normally, the first thing I do when I get home is take off the uncomfortable, but necessary aids and make my family put up with, "Huh? What did you say?"

I am 52 years old and have worked as a marketing associate for the past 17 years. These hearing aids give me a lot of confidence. They are without a doubt the answer to everyone who has a hearing loss. They are comfortable. No messy ear molds, and perfect hearing! What more could anyone ask?

Sincerely,
CJ, Muskegon, MI

An Audiologist's Experience Wearing PAC Hearing Instruments

I am a certified audiologist with a Ph.D. I’ve been in the profession since 1955. I developed hearing loss due partially to exposure to excessively loud sounds and partially due to aging. In many situations I do not have any difficulty, but, more typically, I have difficulty with soft spoken persons and when I am in a noisy background.

I had a pair of partially in-the-ear canal digital hearing aids for about a year. I heard well with them in quiet situations, but I had a great deal of difficulty hearing in noise. Sometimes I found I could do better without the aids. In addition, I experienced a vexing problem—I sometimes had the feeling I was talking too loud while wearing the hearing aids.

At a professional convention, I happened upon SeboTek’s exhibit. I was complaining about the aids I was wearing. The people in the booth suggested that I try their aid.

Let me try to describe what happened as succinctly as I can. The exhibit hall was noisy. The aids were inserted and turned on. The noise reduction switch position was selected. The noise of the convention was significantly reduced, while I continued to hear the person in front of me perfectly! Then when I started to describe my pleasure at the noise reduction I realized my voice sounded normal, the occlusion effect had been reduced—so that was no longer annoying.

I was able to purchase my hearing aids right then and wore them throughout the remainder of the convention. I am still wearing my SeboTeks aids with very great satisfaction.

William Carver, Ph.D.
Audiologist and President, Auditec of St Louis

Hearing Instruments Like No Other

I have been using a SeboTek Voice-Q 720 hearing aid for ten days. The experience is as close as I am likely to get to the miraculous.

I have been legally blind all my life, but had excellent hearing until about ten years ago. While my vision complicated my education, I was able to complete undergraduate and graduate degrees and spent my professional life in university teaching. I retired in 2000 as a professor of sociology and head of a Department of Sociology and Social Work at a regional state university. From 1992 to 2000 I also served as the university’s consultant on assistive technology. I provided information on the availability, costs and appropriateness of technology designed to assist people with disabilities involving vision, hearing, motor skills and cognitive deficits such as learning disabilities.

In 1995, I was diagnosed as having a hearing loss severe enough to merit the prescription of in the ear hearing aids. In 1999 I received a second pair of in the ear aids which were slightly more powerful. In 2001, I experienced two episodes of significant blockages of my inner ears. In each of these two instances, I experienced an increased hearing loss. Neither local specialists nor the Mayo Clinic was able to determine the cause of the episodes. An audiologist fitted me with behind the ear digital hearing aids. These aids enabled me to hear, but my comprehension was severely limited. I could no longer use a conventional phone, and even with specialized amplified phones I could only understand some people some of the time. I also had trouble with voices. While I could understand my wife if she was facing me, I could not understand my daughter, son-in-law or my grandchildren. My wife had to repeat anything that was said. I could understand some other people, but these were mostly men with low voices.

Several weeks ago, my audiologist told me about Sebotek digital hearing aids. Because of the severity of my hearing loss, she was not very optimistic about whether these devices could help me, but she arranged for a trial. I tried the Voice-Q 720 aids in both ears for a week. In evaluating the aids, I drew upon my experience with scientific method and in evaluating products for people with disabilities. I quickly determined that the hearing loss in my left ear was too severe to be significantly helped by the Sebotek aid. My right ear was a very different story. From the minute the audiologist inserted this aid in my right ear, I heard things I have not heard in years. I spent the next week, trying the hearing aid in as many environments as I could. I would alternate the Sebotek digital aid with my existing top of the line digital aid. I made it a point to randomly determine which aid I used first. I also tried to keep the time intervals as equal as I could for each device.

After a period lasting between two and three days, I stopped using my existing hearing aid and concentrated on the Sebotek. The difference in my hearing and comprehension was so great that additional comparison was pointless. During the rest of the trial, I concentrated on trying to find difficult conditions under which to try the Sebotek aid. I learned a number of things.

First, my general comprehension with the Sebotek aid was greatly improved even with my wife. She had to do far less repeating.

Second, I could understand my wife even when she was facing away from me.

Third, I heard sounds that I had not heard in the last four years. They included rain, certain bird sounds and high pitched squeaks in the hinges of our storm and screen door.

Fourth, for the first time in four years, I was able to use a conventional telephone. I cannot express what this means to me. When a phone would ring, I would have to answer and immediately ask the caller to hold. I would then get my wife or go to another room where I had an amplified phone that I might be able to use to understand the caller. I really came to appreciate the Sebotek about two days into the trial when our kitchen phone rang and my wife wasn’t close by. Without thinking, I switched to the voice coil setting on the hearing aid, picked up the phone and answered. I could understand the caller.

Fifth, I can understand my daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren. Once again, I cannot adequately express what this means to me. I am also able to understand other people. So far, I have not found anyone that I cannot understand.

Sixth, in outdoor environments strong wind is not nearly so disturbing. With my previous hearing aid, I often had to shut the hearing aid off in strong wind conditions because it made the hearing aid too uncomfortable. We attended a neighborhood picnic on a day with a twenty mile an hour wind blowing and were sitting at a table facing the wind. I could hear the noise in the Sebotek aid, but it was manageable.

Seventh, initially Sebotek did no better than my old aid in environments where there were groups of people talking and or where there was a lot of background noise. At the end of the trial, I reported this to my audiologist. She programmed a setting into the aid that makes it highly directional. This not only solved the problem but also solved a related problem. We own an SUV, which is fairly noisy. I have usually had trouble hearing my wife or even the radio on the vehicle. The new setting has eliminated this problem.

My experience with the SeboTek Voice-Q 720 may be somewhat unique. As a legally blind person, in my case, someone who cannot read conventional print or drive, I have depended on my hearing to compensate for things that that are lacking from my limited vision. For this reason, my hearing loss has been deeply troubling to me. The Sebotek has given me back sensory abilities that I thought were gone forever. The net result is that I am satisfied on all grounds. My only disappointment is that Sebotek does not currently make a hearing aid that is powerful enough to help the hearing in my left ear.

If they ever do, I will be struggling to be at the head of the line to be a user.

R.W.
Daggett, MI

SeboTek Hearing Instruments Help Veteran with Noise Induced Hearing Loss

I’m 60 years old, and a retired mortician. My wife and I moved from Nebraska to Florida in 2002. We really like living down here, except for the hurricanes!

I guess the way things occurred was pretty much the way they do for many families. When I was younger, I was in the Army, and there was an explosion. I probably can attribute some of my hearing loss to that! After the military, I was in heavy equipment for a little while, and that didn’t help my hearing either. One day my wife had had enough, and she said it was time for me to get my hearing checked. So I guess from the early 1990s or so, I found that I was asking people to repeat things.

I went to one of the national chains, and I tried custom made hearing aids at that time, and it just never worked out for me. The custom made devices never seemed quite right, the background noises were too much for me, and we tried four different hearing aid products, and I returned them all.

The local Naples audiologist took the attitude that we were going to keep trying whatever we had to try—until we solved the problem. One day she tried the SeboTek on me, and there was no comparison. They were immediately better than anything I had tried before, and they are so comfortable that I have caught myself stepping into the shower and almost into the pool with them on! They don’t bother my ears at all. I put them on first thing in the morning and I wear them till I go to sleep.

My SeboTek PAC hearing aids have four digital memories, and they really make a world of difference, not just for hearing regular one-on-one conversations, but for hearing better in noise. I almost never use the telephone circuit because I hear so well with the regular circuit – but if I want to change the circuit, there’s nothing to it. I just reach up and touch the instrument on the button to change the response. It’s easy, simple, hardly shows at all and makes a phenomenal difference. I think many men are embarrassed to wear hearing aids, but these don’t really show at all, and the difference when I place them in my ears, is day and night.

J.D.
Naples, Florida

SeboTek Hearing Instruments Replace Traditional Aids

I have worn aids for 7 or 8 years. My first aids were the small mini-canal custom made hearing aids. I was trying a behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aid when I read an ad for the Sebotek PAC. My audiologist spoke highly of the product, said they were brand new and wanted me to try them.

I got the PAC in April, 2003. My original hearing aids made things louder, but I still could not understand. With the PAC aid, I can suddenly hear. It sounds crisp.

The aids are also incredibly comfortable. I was always aware before of having something in my ear. Wearing my PAC aids, I have even accidentally stepped into the shower, and once into the swimming pool. I just blew on them and dried them, they were fine.

I have never been able to hear passengers in the back seat before, but now I can. I really like that. I also use a normal program, telephone program and noise program.

Cosmetics really wasn't an issue for me. I purchased the SeboTek PAC on the recommendation of my audiologist. They really are almost invisible though. I was on a trip and saw a gentleman with a large BTE. Of course I didn't know about his hearing loss. I told him to check out Sebotek.

HA
North Palm Beach, FL

Hearing Instruments No Longer In The Drawer, Thanks to SeboTek

Several years ago I was fitted with state of the art CIC hearing aids, I wore them home and for a few hours, took them off, put them in a drawer and never wore them again.

Last month I was tested again and ordered SeboTek aids. I received my SeboTek aids several weeks ago. I was absolutely certain, that I would not like them—or any other hearing aids. I was fit in Stockton, California, where they adjusted the hearing aids and made sure I was able to use them.

I left the SeboTek hearing aids on all day the first day, and have worn them all day, every day, since! Most of the time I don't even know I have them on, they're great! Just wanted to let the men (and women) that designed them know, they did a great job. I now hear in noisy places, hear the TV, hear the phone and they are so small and discreet not one person has noticed I'm wearing aids.

Thanks again,

BDC
Stockton, CA