ReSound ONE™ with M&RIE (Microphone & Receiver-In-Ear) introduces a new class of hearing aids* with a microphone and receiver positioned inside the ear, so patients can collect the whole sound environment just as nature intended. M&RIE offers the most natural sound quality by having a third microphone in the tragal area of the ear. This allows for the most natural and reproducible sound of the hearing aid to the ear canal.
This technology improvement is called All Access Directionality. It is a feature that allows the user to have greater hearing in any environment in which they find themselves. It allows for the hearing aid to seek the speech and reduce the noise by having the microphones detect nuances of speech and directionality of the sound.
Additionally, an enhanced feature called Ultra Focus is a feature that provides the best one-to-one hearing experience. It allows the hearing aid user to narrow down the directionality of the hearing aid to be front focused and improve the signal to noise ratio of the sound with ultra focus to the front.
The Resound One with M&RIE combines the two traditional microphones with a third in the ear canal to help hearing aid wearers hear with more direction and depth.
ReSound ONE with M&RIE leverages a new, faster sound processing chipset and a new feedback management system, DFS Ultra III, to provide hearing aid wearers with the natural sound of a custom product with the features and ease of a RIE model.
Research from August 2020 concluded the following with ReSound One products:
Directional microphone systems can be beneficial to users and are associated with higher user satisfaction with hearing aids.
However, many hearing aid users are unaware of the advanced features in their hearing aids, and the effects of features such as directional microphones are context dependent. Thus, the control mechanism for directionality is as important as the sound processing technology.
Driven by the Organic Hearing philosophy, ReSound ONE stays true to the evidence-based binaural hearing strategy for steering directional microphone systems with All Access Directionality. At the same time, All Access Directionality adds advanced ear-to-ear binaural beamforming that improves speech recognition in noise without eliminating important spatial cues for a natural hearing experience.
