Phonak Audéo Infinio Ultra Sphere

I previously had Costco KS10s which worked well for me (Costco labeled Phonaks). So far, I find nothing drastically different about the Spheres, except for battery life (which is amazing). Some things seem a bit worse. Watching TV without the Streaming box doesn't seem as good. Also, I find there is intermittent distortion when streaming (mostly on my Windows PC, but also on my iPad, and Android phone). Of note is that I chose to continue with open domes (more on this later). Perhaps the experience in the car is much better. I am not sure when/if I'm actually using Spheric mode. I was expecting a more profound difference in the technology, especially given that the total cost was 3x. I posted the above in the Phonak Facebook group, and an Audiologist there suggested that I consider switching from Open domes to Titanium C-Shells to get the most value out of the AI aspect of these devices.

When it comes to normal day to day usage, these hearing aids are on par with the Phonak Lumitys that I used to wear. Where the spheres shine is in noisy restaurants. I used to have to rely on a Roger microphone and make my guests at the table pass it around. Now, I’m happy to report that hearing in these situations is so much better. Not perfect of course, but certainly noticeably better. I fully expect that as Phonak continues to research the use of AI processing in hearing aids like this, as chip sizes continue to decrease, and as better batteries come around, these will only improve. But for a first crack at it, Phonak has done their homework. Secondly, Zip Hearing truly makes it so easy to buy hearing aids like this at an affordable price. And their support team consisting of Grant and Derek are superb at working with customers over the phone. As long as the local audiology office Zip Hearing works with in your area is well staffed with quality audiologists, then this is easily the way to go. I bought these hearing aids at much less than half of what I would normally have to pay. Bravo Zip Heading! And Phonak!

Hi, I'm Mary from San Antonio, Texas. And I want to share with you my experience with Zip Hearing. I have had a hearing loss for over 40 years, severe in my right ear and only recently in my left ear, which is now mild to moderate. So the hearing aid that I chose to select was the Phonak Infinio 90 sphere and I have been very, very satisfied with this. In the past I have had hearing aids for probably the past 15 years and this one far surpasses the ones that I had. I had Oticon, and I had Starkey. But I'm very, very happy with this particular hearing aid. Before I chose this hearing aid, I did a lot of research on YouTube and then, of course, I looked at the Zip Hearing website. And I also went to several providers who quoted me different prices. I can tell you that with Zip Hiring, I saved anywhere from 1500 to $2000. They were wonderful in helping me also get my reimbursement from my insurance company, because I did have some coming back to me, so they were very good about that. As far as the hearing aid goes, it has given to me what I needed most was being able to hear speech, especially in background noise. I really struggled in restaurants, in large gatherings. The amount, the speech clarity in this hearing aid is really excellent, and I have been able to hear so much better. It is able to adapt what I hear to the environment. So if it's a very loud area, then it reduces background noise. The sphere part of the hearing aid is like an extra boost when you are in those kind of environments to really reduce that background noise and enhance speech understanding. So I've been very happy with this overall, and I've had it for about three months and honestly, I don't have to make barely any adjustments whatsoever to it. It just works very well on its own. Some of the other things that I'm very, very happy with is that it is a rechargeable hearing aid, and the charger is just this nice little small compartment and you can see when you open it, there's a green light that tells you it is fully charged. This charger can plug in, but it also keeps the charge so that if you need to go somewhere, you don't have to carry the plug and you can recharge your hearing aids as needed. The other thing I like is when you put your hearing aids inside the charger. The hearing aid lights up to let you know that the contact is there. So it's wonderful and you ready to go in the morning. The battery life of this particular hearing aid, I believe, is about 16 to 18 hours. I have never run out of battery time, not even close. They do say if you use the sphere mode all day long that it will significantly reduce the battery. But again, I have not had any problem, but I don't use the sphere mode all day. I use it for 2 or 3 hours, possibly. The other thing that I am very happy with is the app. The mobile app is very easy to use. It allows me to enter different programs and to change the programming, to increase volume, to reduce noise, to change the focus of the hearing aid. So multiple things that you can do with that and that has been very, very beneficial as well. When I have been in a situation that I need to fine tune. The other thing that I like about this hearing aid is the Bluetooth capability. It is excellent. You can receive phone calls through Bluetooth and so you hear directly into your ear the conversation and what is nice is it has a good range of reception so that you don't have to have your phone right with you. You can be across the room and your Bluetooth will still work. In addition, you can Bluetooth music and it is just I've never done that before. So for me it's something very new and it is absolutely beautiful and splendid. So I'm very happy with the entire hearing aid. The cons I don't have anything that I am upset about with this hearing aid. The biggest thing I have read about is that people think it's a larger hearing aid, and it is. The hearing aid is larger because they have put in an extra processing chip for the sphere mode, but it fits nicely behind my ear. I'll try to show you what it looks like here and it is a bit larger than other hearing aids. Let me see if I can show it to you. But, and that looks very large in the picture. So that huge. But anyway it is a little bit larger than other hearing aids. But as I said, it fits nicely behind my ear and so there's not a big issue with that as far as I am concerned. As far as hearing I've been, I was just astonished how good they are. I was very reluctant to go to an online provider because you don't know are they going to be able to follow up? Are they are you going to be able to return your hearing aids if they're broken or whatever? The advantage of Zip Hearing is that they contract with local providers who do your hearing test, your fitting, and your follow up so you are connected with the local provider at all times. And the local providers that I have, the lady I have raves about Zip Hearing. When I have had to interact with Zip Hearing. They have answered the phone every time. There's no recording and I've been able to work consistently with one person, which really makes it user friendly and absolutely excellent. My local provider was wonderful. She allowed me to test these hearing aids before I even purchased them. That I think that was unique to her, but it was really great. So I heartily recommend Zip Hearing and I really love the Phonak Audio Sphere. For me it has worked excellent. Good luck to you in your search. Thank you.

What is up folks? Nick here at ZipHearing back with another hearing aid review. For a bit of backstory, if you're not familiar with me or the channel I currently wear Phonak Lumity 90 hearing aids. That's the generation that came just before these new Sphere hearing aids. And today I wanted to do a review on this and let you know how I feel about them, how they compare to the Phonaks I currently have now, and everything else that I've tried. Let's get some stuff out of the way. If you want to know more about my story and my journey with hearing aids, go ahead click there. If you want to know more about ZipHearing and want to go check out some hearing aids or even what's the deal with these new spheres, go ahead, click that. Also, let's address the elephant in the room. If you have watched these videos before, things are going to look different, which is also a contributing factor for why there may have been a little bit of a gap between the last video and this one I have moved house. The office is different. I'm still working on stuff. I got some lighting. I got the blue light. This seems kind of empty. There might be a new light going in there, so just bear with me as I work on the lighting, the audio. Hopefully, I can get this all sort of figured out. So what are we talking about today? We are talking about the new Phonak sphere infinio. I was fortunate enough to get my hands and ears on these about a month ago, so I have definitely put them through their paces. So let's start with the outside stuff. Like what do you what do you get? What do you what are you getting with this new device. So yeah, you're getting a bag and inside the bag there's a couple of things. So let's start checking them out. You get a plug, this goes into your wall, USB cable goes into it. This is how you charge your devices. You also get the wire that comes with the whole thing to plug in into each end of the system. You have a more traditional standard sized USB on one end that goes into your brick, and then you have a wonderful USB C that goes into the charging case. Speaking of charging cases, you get a charging case. However, this is not your standard charging case. This is actually one with a built in battery, so you can charge these on the go. So this would technically be considered a premium feature for any other hearing aid and these come standard with the sphere, inside the case you are going to get your hearing aids. These hearing aids are the sphere. I got them in gunmetal gray, why? Because I love gunmetal gray. However, they do come in a variety of colors to match certain things. Maybe you want them to match your hair. Maybe you want them to match your skin tone. You can do all of that by picking one of the colors that are available. You are also going to get wax guards. You're going to get domes if you use them, that's also going to be in your little package. Two more things. You're going to get the literature. You're going to get the manual, all stuff that you can kind of peruse through on your own time. And finally, you are going to get a little travel pouch. Why? I feel like this could have been better. It's just some cloth with a little bit of padding. Maybe there could have been a hard case or something. I mean, that's just me. So let's talk about the physical appearance of these hearing aids. They do not look very different from the old Phonak Lumity 90s. They have a rocker switch on the back to help you select presets and adjust volume, and some other settings that can be programmed by your hearing specialist. The one thing you're going to notice, probably right off the bat, is they are a little bit larger than your old hearing aids. I'm going to put up a little picture somewhere, kind of showing you the difference in another model that we talked about before, the oticon intent. They were also a little larger, but they were more thick. So it was the thickness of the hearing aid that was increased to accommodate some AI functionality. And that was a little bit off putting at first with glasses wearers and kind of the feel behind the ear and but we got used to it. Phonak did not go wider. Instead they went longer. So in fact these hearing aids are a touch longer than older models, which I think was the right choice immediately when putting them on the ears. I did not notice an increase in size. They felt just like my Phonak lumidty's. To be honest, I did not even recognize or feel that they were longer. Phonak, good choice. Good decision to go longer rather than wider. Well done, well done. I am going to go ahead and put these in my ear now and boom they're in. They're on. They're working. Here we go. As you can see they are pretty low profile, much like the Lumitys, the lumity L's, the what any older model these are that Rico or receiver in canal style hearing aid which we are all very familiar with. So there's going to be no surprises that these are extremely well hidden. I'm going to go ahead and turn around and hopefully you can see that you cannot see them. So if someone is really, really looking to see if you have hearing aids, which I don't know why they would be, they may notice them. Your average person may just think they're the back of your glasses, or if you have longer hair, they're going to get covered up and no one's going to notice. Realistically, this is kind of the worst case scenario for hiding your hearing aids. I'm wearing a hat which pulls my hair back and exposes the back of my ear. This is the worst it's going to get. Which in reality is not that big of a deal, right. So I wouldn't worry about these being not low key enough and let's get something out of the way. In terms of pricing, hearing aids are not cheap. In addition to that, the best hearing aids are certainly not going to be cheap for these sphere 90s that I am wearing. Brace yourself. You should expect to pay over $6,000 for the pair at most hearing centers. I get my hearing aids through zip hearing where they are a bit less. So you might want to consider that if you're looking to save some money on these and you still get local care. Let's talk about some tech specs from Phonak before we jump into my personal experience with these hearing aids. These hearing aids are Oracast ready, which is something you're going to be hearing more of in the next few years. Oracast is a new Bluetooth feature that will allow multiple users to stream audio from the same source. For example, a church or a theater could set up this oracast system in the future, and their audio signal is beamed straight into your hearing aids using the oracast system. It's very similar to the idea of Telecoil, if you have used that before, except now it will be bigger and better. While we are on the topic of Bluetooth, these hearing aids use classic Bluetooth, which means it is not an MFI or made for iPhone standard. The upside to this is that you can have these hearing aids connected to two devices at the same time. So for those of you that are connecting it to your phone and maybe an iPad and you want to switch between them seamless, or maybe you don't have an iPad and maybe you have a laptop. Same thing, same idea. Two devices you just switch. Done. Easy. That is something that I was never able to experience on an MFI device, and is actually one of the main reasons I went with my lumity's in the first place. So to see that come back in these spheres is chefs kiss, I love it. However, that is not the big selling point for these hearing aids. The most profound feature on these hearing aids is actually the AI chip built into each device. That's right, I said AI chip, not AI software alone, meaning that Phonak is saying these are the world's first hearing aid with a dedicated AI chip. They are calling it the deep Sonic chip, which stands for Deep Sound Optimized Neural Integrated Chip. They say it's an absolute game changer. And you know what it is? They are using this chip and they are using its functionality to increase the Snr or signal to noise ratio. What does that mean? Put simply, it is going to do a better job of separating unwanted noise from desired signal. So for those of you that have the same problem that I do where you can't hear the person in front of you in a noisy environment, guess what? Spoiler alert for something coming later in the video. Those days are gone 53 times more processing power, 22 million sound samples used in training the AI. Over 7700 million operations per second. That is a lot of numbers. That is a lot of words. But at the end of the day, it's just all impressive. And finally, one of the last features that is kind of a big deal here is the waterproofing. In the previous model, the Lumity right there was the standard Lumity. And then there was the Audeo life or Lumity life. And that was supposed to be a more life proof model preventing your devices from things like water damage and damage caused from dust or debris. Those days of having the two separate models are gone. Phonak has decided to make the sphere models match the standards of the waterproof Audeo life, which simply means these are beyond Ip68 rated. So let's talk about the Bluetooth, Bluetooth and hearing aids always have a big discussion about them, because no one seems to really thoroughly enjoy the process of connecting your hearing aids to your phone or maintaining the connection to your phone. But what I'm going to tell you is that these Phonak spheres were certainly a different experience than any other that I've had. I've used many companies hearing aids. Some have a much better Bluetooth procedure than others, and I will say that traditionally Phonaks, Bluetooth experience is not necessarily the best when it comes to establishing a connection or maintaining a connection. Personally, I have never had that issue. My Phonak Lumity's are always connected to my phone. I've really never had them drop off by accident, right? I have forced them to do so, but never by accident. However, I do hear from viewers and customers that sometimes there are issues with their Phonaks. So when I got these spheres, I had a certain expectation and that expectation was certainly surpassed. Setting these up to my phone took almost no time, took one attempt and worked perfectly. Furthermore, they have stayed and remained connected to my phone without issue. So I can safely say that the Bluetooth connection process for these spheres is both easy and awesome. And what do I do with this Bluetooth connection? So the big one is going to be the app, which we'll talk about in a minute. We connect these devices using the app through to our phone. We also control the settings and programs with the app. But the app is not the only thing I use the Bluetooth for. I use the Bluetooth to stream audio from my phone to my hearing aids. And while we're on the subject, I will say these are probably one of the best, if not the best sounding quality that I have had from a hearing aid. And I am referring to both phone call quality, audio quality, music quality, or just all of it. I am thoroughly and seriously impressed by how these things sound. As always, these are not designed to be headphones, so your music listening experience is not going to be superb. But if you can kind of manage your expectations and realize that the drivers or the speakers in these devices are extremely small, so you're not going to get a lot of bass response, you're not going to get an overwhelming sound if you can kind of tame your expectations. These things do sound great, but if you are looking for a music listening session, right, maybe you want to chill out and read a book and listen to some music, go for headphones. These are great if you are walking somewhere or you're riding the bus, or you're on the train, or you're hanging out in between classes, or you have some downtime at your job and you just want to listen to maybe an audiobook or some music, or you want to watch a video. These are fantastic for that. How about this app? Anything, anything new with this app? It's still the same phone app companion app. You're going to be able to select your volume, your programs, your settings. You're going to be able to adjust certain parameters within those premade programs. You're going to be able to set up the tap control features. You can set up some reminders about cleaning. I think the most important new feature is actually going to be this find my hearing aids feature. Some of you may be familiar with certain other companies. Find my features. This one from Phonak is going to be very similar, and will sort of ping your hearing aids and allow you to find them if you lost them. I also want to address something that I've been hearing in the comments, and I've been listening to you guys sort of complain about, and that's the apps. Some people feel like they're too confusing. Some people feel like they have too many options. Some people feel like there's not enough options. Apps are hard to make, not necessarily in the technical aspect, but in the user aspect. How are they going to cater to the potentially hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people that are going to be using this app and have all different levels of tech savviness? They need to find a common ground. So that is going to be somewhere between zero functionality and all the functionality. So there may be things you want to have control over that. You cannot because that may just be too much, or there may be something that you don't want to have control over, but you do. An app just cannot be perfect for every single person. So we just really need to try our best to kind of find a place where we're comfortable living in with the app and its functionality. There are also the touch sensitive, tap sensitive capabilities that continue from the Lumity line. These sort of tap controls can be programmed with your hearing specialist, so if you want to use one hearing aid to double tap and answer or end phone calls, you can do that if you want to use the other one to activate your digital assistant, maybe with an A or with an S, or with a hey G that can also be managed. Furthermore, I will say that the responsiveness is much, much better on the sphere when it comes to the tap control. I looked like an idiot when I was trying to use my tap control with my lumity's. I'd stand there and I'd tap and nothing would happen. I'd tap and nothing would happen. And then I would bang with my whole hand and I'd be the idiot banging his head in public. And it looked weird. But the tap control would work. With these, the responsiveness is much greater. So I am very subtly double tapping my ear and making things happen, which is greatly appreciated because now I'm not that weirdo who's slamming their head in public. Thanks Phonak. Let's talk about battery life. Battery life, phonak is saying anywhere from 16 to 24 hours. I personally am getting much closer to that 24 hour range rather than the 16. I have zero complaints about the battery life. I kind of feel like we're at a point now where most Ric style hearing aids are in that 16 to 24 hour range, so no complaints. Good job. Let's talk about functionality. This is the bread and butter of the video. If you watch anything, watch this. This is where everything comes together. Your standard process when you get hearing aids is you get the hearing aid. You go to your hearing specialist. They fit them physically to your ear, and then they take your audiogram and they program your hearing aids for your prescription. Most of the time, in my experience, we kind of get about 90% of the way there. Maybe there are a few tweaks that need to be done regarding sound quality. Usually I have to have them adjust the plosive sounds or the sibilant sounds. So the plosives are your p, p, p, and your sibilance is your sss, simply because the plosives can get too overwhelming for the hearing aids and cause distortion. And the sibilance can sound like someone is stabbing you in the ear with an ice pick. I did not have that experience with the sphere. In fact, I did not need to change anything with the Phonak sphere. These hearing aids were about 99.5% perfect upon the first programming. The other 0.5% is something I will talk about in a minute. One additional thing I always do when I'm trying out hearing aids is I have my hearing specialist or the audiologist program some different settings. I usually go for a restaurant mode, a music mode, a TV mode, and then maybe a different one if I'm feeling some sort of special. But those are the big ones. Restaurant, music, TV. Why do I need a restaurant mode? Because my biggest challenge is hearing things that I want to hear in loud environments. And traditionally, restaurant mode was the only way I could get the hearing aids to engage the feature that I needed, which is that signal to noise ratio. So imagine my surprise when I went into a restaurant for the first time with these sphere hearing aids, sat down, went to go turn on my restaurant mode and didn't need it. That's right, these hearing aids with the AI deep sonic chip out of the box. No special program did the thing I needed them to do. Traditionally, open domes on my Lumity's were not capable of kind of reducing that signal to noise, to a point where I could hear the person I was trying to speak to. So I had to go for a custom mold option. And I actually preferred my active vent, which is compatible with these spheres. So, you know, I'm super excited about that. Anyway, I had to use the act event to kind of reduce the amount of noise physically coming into my ears by having the mold and then allowing the hearing aid to do its job of processing that signal to noise. I am using open domes on these hearing aids, so I was fully expecting that I would need to walk into the restaurant and switch to the restaurant mode to have it kind of do its thing. Oh my God, I was wrong. These hearing aids handled everything without having to switch programs. They knew what was going on and they knew what they needed to do to fix the problem. When I did end up switching into restaurant mode just to try it out. Yes, it was definitely better. But let's say you forgot to go put it into restaurant mode. Not a big deal. These hearing aids are going to kind of just do that for you. And if you're still struggling a little bit in that environment, yes, by all means, go into your app, click restaurant mode and solve everything. The music mode. Let's talk about the music mode. Most hearing aids are not very good at dealing with live music or live sound, because either they're trying to squash the signal coming in, or they're trying to compress it into something that's more pleasant, or there's some sort of noise gate functionality that's trying to cut it off. It usually just doesn't sound fantastic and it doesn't sound natural. The Phonak spheres are the most natural sounding hearing aid I have ever used when it comes to live, sound and live music in order to achieve this heightened level of musical quality. Yes, you do have to turn on music mode. In the standard program, there is a little bit of a gate, a noise gate that happens. There is a little bit of squashing that happens. So it's not the perfect situation if you're listening to music. But once you go in and you turn on music mode, game over, everybody else, you lose. Phonak wins. Same thing can be said for TV mode. Tv mode is really good because it actually uses the directionality of the microphones very similar to restaurant mode. So it really focuses on the signal coming in front of you rather than allowing signals from behind or the side to kind of overwhelm your TV volume. So I mentioned this a little bit ago, but that 0.5% that was just missing that I would really like to potentially have programmed out, came about in the regular standard program, and it was this like noise gate sort of issue. And what I mean by noise gate is when a sound hits a certain noise level, the hearing aids will kind of and you'll hear a little bit of like a sucking. It almost sounds like some like someone sucking through a straw or even the sound I just made with my mouth. So yeah, it was at the end of the world. Absolutely not. No no no no no, not even a big deal. But if something is going to be perfect, it needs to be perfect. So instead, these Phonaks get the 99.5% of perfection, which is still better than any other hearing aid I have ever tried. Phonak is saying that their customers, 93% of them, have a perfect fitting on the first shot, and I think that's why. Because they do, and no one's lying. In fact, I'm actually questioning the remaining 7?cause that seems like a lot. Let's talk about tech levels. Most hearing aids come with four tech levels in some sort of nomenclature that is unique to the company. Phonak uses 90. 70. 50. 30. Other companies use. One. Two. Three. Four. These spheres only come in two levels a 90 and a 70. If you are looking for the 50 or 30 tech levels, then you would want to look into the traditional infinio, not the sphere infinio. The reason I believe that they do not have a 50 or a 30 is because these spheres are their flagship hearing aid. These are not just a version 0.5 of the Lumity. These are not the Lumity and a halves. These are not the Lumity two. The Sphere Infinio is a completely unique hearing aid that is designed to provide the best hearing experience without fail. So in order to get that, yes, you are going to have to get a heightened tech level. Yes, you are going to have to pay more. But let's be real here, and I'm going to kind of chime in, in my own personal way, do I think these hearing aids are worth it? That is a very, very profound question. And everyone's answer is going to be different. I'm going to give you a caveat here. If money is not an issue and you can swing the six plus thousand dollars for the Infinio sphere 90s. You should, and you will not regret it if you need to save a little bit of money. I have not tried the 70s, but if they are even anywhere remotely close to the capability of the 90s, then yes, go with the 70s. But I think Phonak is partially justified in providing these hearing aids at a more expensive cost, because they are worth it. The technology inside of them is outstanding, and these are really just simply a plug and play hearing aid. You do not have to go putz around with settings and multiple meetings with your hearing specialist and a lot of fine tuning. As we said earlier, 93% of customers. The first fitting is perfection. I am one of those 93%. I do not have the need to go back to the audiologist and fine tune anything but the biggest thing here is that these Phonak spheres addressed my biggest hearing issue out of the box. I didn't have to switch modes. I didn't have to switch settings. I didn't have to program them specifically for my situation. It was just click, click, click, click click. You're good. And yes, I would happily pay this amount of money for these hearing aids. The problem is going to be zip hearing. It's going to be very hard for me to send these hearing aids back to you. I've gotten used to them. They've lived in my ears for a month. I love them. It's going to be real tough. It's going to be like trying to give you, like, my dog. Like, I really don't want to do it. I don't, but I'm gonna have to. And I will do it begrudgingly. You're still not getting my dog, though. He's staying the hearing aids they'll go back. So I hinted in my best of 2024 video that there may be a new competitor on the block, a new challenger per se. The Phonak sphere is the new challenger, and the Phonak sphere is the new champion. They are more comfortable than the Oticon intent. They are more capable than any other hearing aid I've ever used, including the Lumitys that I own. And if someone were to purchase these hearing aids, it would be a sound investment. Because you are backed up by Phonak, there's a warranty. The user experience is fantastic. Customer service through zip hearing. Customer service through Phonak is wonderful. You really cannot go wrong if you can afford these hearing aids. And with that being said, thank you so much for watching this video. I am done gushing about these hearing aids on camera. I will continue to gush about these hearing aids in real life and I will hound Phonak and zip hearing to try and get my hands on them because I need them in my life, I need them. Thank you. Thank you for watching this video. Thank you for hanging out with me. Thank you for listening to me ramble on and on and on. I greatly appreciate it. If you have any questions, or if you have a comment, or if you have a suggestion about a video topic that you would like for me to discuss, please put it in the comments below. If you like this video and you want to see more, please give us a thumbs up. And furthermore, if you could please click the subscribe button, that would be fantastic. It allows us to make more videos like this for you guys, and it allows me to refine my ability to ramble about hearing aids. So again, one last time, thank you very much and I will see you in the next video.

I left Costco for Zip Hearing after over 10 years and three separate hearing aids. Although the cost was higher, the value received was greater and easier to work with. Shipping to my hearing specialist was faster than the other retail outlets in my area. This experience was great, and the hearing aids are a dramatic upgrade from my Costco Jabra Brand. I am in love with my new Phonak Sphere's!

I am thrilled with my Phonak Infineon I90 hearing aids. Autosense OS 6.0 does a great job switching and/or mixing modes. Well over 90% of the time I can pick up the conversations I want—even in noisy environments—without touching the app. And the app makes it quick to fine tune adjustments if needed. I had a concern that the amount of digital signal processing would produce artifacts but that has not been the case. Everything sounds clean and natural. The Bluetooth connection is solid. Bluetooth audio for podcasts and phone calls is great. Bluetooth audio for music is good. My other concern was that, because of how large the I90’s are, using over-the-ear headphones would produce some feedback. But they work with my AirPod Max’s and my Sennheiser EPOS just fine. Battery life so far has been running over 16 hours. Getting a quick recharge from the case is a great feature.