The Stealth Secret Sound Amplifier

I spent a day reading reviews on all these hearing amplifiers. I had no idea they even existed. I thought I would have to get a hearing aid someday. I have scar tissue in one ear from lots of ear infections when I was a kid. I have always had a slight loss of low tones, but as I have aged, it has gotten worse. I cannot hear people with soft voices or any low tones. My kids started saying I was shouting, when I thought I was talking normally. Also when I am on business calls I can barely hear the person. So I figured it could not hurt to try this for the price. I have been using it for 3 days now, and I am amazed at how well it works for me.I can hear the shows I watch on my computer, I put the speakerphone on and I can hear people loud and clear on the phone now, and it is helping me to modulate my voice much better. One of my kids asked me a question when I had this one, and they did not hear my reply! Success. lol. I am not trying to talk softer, it is just natural when you can hear your voice.I used it all day the first day, and then it needed a recharge. It recharged quickly. Thanks to other people's tips in the reviews, I learned to place the device in my ear first and then turn it on and up. It has some feedback once in awhile, but just jiggle it and it stops or turn it down a tad, and I found I could turn it out later. Also I have very small ears, but I found the large fitting is the best for me at keeping it in my ear. I tried the smaller sizes and it falls out. You just have to get used to shoving the end into your ear.Give it a chance. It quickly becomes something you will not notice. The first day is odd because your ear is sensitive just from hearing sounds again. Also most people do not like things in their ears, but even an hearing aid would feel odd.The first day I tried it, I felt so deaf when I took it out and my ear felt weird. Now on the third day I have adjusted to it.Also I like that it looks like a bluetooth device. I do have some vanity. As far as background noise, I have driven in the car with this in my ear, and the background noises did not bother me. I use it in my home, so I am hearing the refrigerator humming, my computer fan, a drip in the shower, and oddly enough my kids talking two rooms away! But these are all minor.When I take it out I do not hear these noises at all, due to my hearing loss.It does have a bit of an echo feeling at first, like you have your ear up to a radio, but that goes away.I tried it in my good ear, and it was a total different experience. It was so loud and more tinny sounding.I guess since my hearing loss is all low tones, it does not sound tinny in my bad ear. It sounds quite good.This is working so well, I decided to buy some in the ear canal amplifiers.I ordered a set of those from Walker with good reviews on Amazon.I have not had my hearing tested for years, but I always had a loss of low tones before when I was tested, but they never felt I needed any aids. I think these amplifiers are not made for you if you have a profound hearing loss. The bad reviews seem to come from people trying to use these as a replacement for real hearing aids.People like me who are happy with them, find this as a great solution for our type of hearing loss, without having to actually pay 2000. for hearing aids.Update: At 93 days this stopped charging. Amazon was great and refunded me the full amount and I bought a different version of this. Then before I shipped it back I tried one more time to charge it and it worked again. So I have been checking it for a week now and it seems to be charging again. Not sure what to think.It was not charging before and I had to hold the charger in or wiggle it around to get it to show charging.

I bought the Stealth Secret Sound Amplifier for my father, for Christmas. He is getting hard of hearing, and I thought this might be a great little, inexpensive item for him to have when the family gets together, or when he's out to dinner, etc.However, when this item was unpackaged and tried out, I knew immediately that this "hearing aid" was just a piece of garbage. It was almost impossible to wear because it transmitted so much background noise you couldn't separate out what you really wanted to hear. It didn't really amplify the sound as much as it just made everything in the room sound louder. It would pick up the "buzz" sound of the refrigerator (in the kitchen), way beyond what I can normally hear (or would notice), and just madethe overall hearing experience just unpleasant. It did this wherever you went, it just made every sound louder, garbled, and distorted. I ended up just getting rid of it the very first day we tried it out. The volume control really didn't do anything, the sound just had pretty the same poor sound quality.I know this sort of an item is no substitute for an expensive high quality hearing aid, but I thought it might have some redeeming quality, boy was I wrong.Unlike the TV ads that promote these low priced style amplifier aids, I simply can't imagine a use where this poor quality "hearing aid" could ever be used. Advice: Just don't get this Stealth Secret Sound Amplifier, it's not worth, even at the low price it retails for!

This item stopped working 8/26/2011. So it's good for 9 months... it was great while it lasted. I had to keep squeezing the piece to get sound about a month ago... now the light says its charged, but there is no amplification.After reading most of the reviews, I was very cautious about purchasing this item. I guessed that maybe people didn't know how to wear a bluetooth-type phone in the ear (I am 62, but love technology). With a little maneuvering, the ear piece fits comfortably on the ear. I've had hearing aids in the past that were damaged and too costly to replace. I have the type of hearing that hears sounds, but very difficult to translate the spoken word - especially coming out of the TV set or at an auditorium play. This item is exactly as described, a PSA - or personal sound amplification. Yes, hearing aids are better at filtering - but extremely costly - way above what I can afford now. The SSSA amplified the sound very well when watching TV - I was able to reduce the volume control 50% (making my husband very happy and saving his ears). I can't wait to try at a play or movie theatre. Oh, I also found that there is a sweet spot on the volume control that removes the 'hollow or barrel' sound. Over all, I am pretty pleased.