Paul Posted
Still getting used to them. Seem to charge quickly and perform as specified. Price was reasonable for quality.
This review is from Jabra - Enhance Select 300 - Sparkling Silver
GLem Posted
These are very nice! Worked good, but did not work with me hearing problem. Best Buy took are of me after 2 months trying to get them to work with my really bad hearing problem.
This review is from Jabra - Enhance Select 300 - Sparkling Silver
zboot Posted
The Jabra Enhance Select 300 are a set of hearing aids from Jabra that marries traditional hearing aid technology with an app that lets you personalize the behavior and also support traditional wireless earbud capability - taking calls and listening to music. For this review, a relative who has experienced hearing loss trialed the device. In the box, you’ll get the hearing aids, charging case plus a cord, a cleaning brush and cloth, ear measurement tool, sizing tips, and the setup guides. The charging case looked like just another wireless headset case. It has a battery that can be charged and it charges the hearing aids when docked inside. The hearing aids themselves look like traditional ones with the main unit sitting just behind the ear and what looks like acoustic tubing to the piece that goes into your ear canal. This helps give it a more concealed look. The ear measurement tool is used for determining the best length receiver wire for you. As this is not adjustable, it seems pointless to include it unless one is able to get a swap on the hearing aid if the sizing is not optimal. After getting the correct earbud tip, the first thing is getting the correct one into each ear. Unlike regular earbuds, telling left and right is a bit more subtle. Held facing forward, the receiver cable kinda curves inwards toward the ear so that’s a decent way to tell. However, the earbuds are also color coded with a blue dot on the left and red on the right. So between those two indicators, one should be able to get them in consistently. You’d place the behind the ear part first then insert the earbud fully into the canal so that they’re not even visible externally. While that looked uncomfortable, I was told that this is normal for hearing aids and the tip felt smooth while providing good retention inside the ear. Pairing to the app was pretty straightforward. Even though there are tactile buttons on the hearing aid, like other bluetooth earbuds nowadays, it powers on automatically when removed from the charging case and by default is in pairing mode. The Jabra Enhance Select app then just walks through the process of detecting and pairing them. The app has a bunch of presets to select the environment you’re in to customize the hearing aids. There’s also automatic volume control which I’m told was a great feature as it avoided occurrences when the hearing aids can drive too loud because of a sudden change in ambient sound or volume from a conversation. One can also customize presets further, tweaking treble, bass, and “middle”. These are normal audio filter controls but I guess also work for normal speech clarity. Performance wise, it was reported that these did a good job in daily activities. It was appreciated that one could take calls wirelessly and could tweak profiles when in a quiet environment, restaurant, or walking in the park. They did report a couple potential issues. It only happened twice but there was cases of whistling when talking on a phone normally (not over bluetooth) and holding the phone up to the ear (with hearing aids). Shifting the phone made the whistling go away and it did not return for the duration of the call. The second was battery life. Having the bluetooth streaming capability meant these got used to play audio from the phone which impacted battery life. Streaming music, the earbuds lasted for about 6 hours before needing to be charged. The case can recharge them up to three times which means you still get all day battery life and they didn’t really listen to more than 6 hours of music daily, but it does mean there’s potentially a 1-3 hour period of time that you’re waiting for the battery to charge. Luckily, it seems just charging for about 15 minutes gives a decent amount of normal “hearing aid” runtime which made it convenient to charge up, use, then have a longer period of charge time commuting between two locations. Ultimately, the conclusion was that the Enhance Select 300 did a good job, was easy to use, and provided useful customization. Battery life is something to plan for if you’ll use these in music mode but as just a hearing aid, the life is great and the charging case removes any real anxiety regarding battery life when out and about during the day.
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We appreciate your feedback and review! We’re glad to hear that the Enhance Select 300 hearing aids are working well for your family member. We recommend streaming the call versus holding the phone to your ear, that should help with clarity. We include the measurement tool to measure your ear for the appropriate size wire, in case the size 2 wire that comes standard in all kits is too long or too short (in which case we will provide the correct length wire for free). You can contact our Care Team if you need guidance or assistance in measuring. Please give us a call at (800) 854-2772 if you need assistance. <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/stratos-logos/logos/Jabra.jpg" alt="Jabra" title="Jabra" style="display: block !important; margin-top: 2em !important; border: 1px solid #ccc !important; padding: 2px !important; background-color: white !important;" />
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