As a hearing impaired health professional, my working and personal life has been completely turned around by BS after many attempts elsewhere. The process has been gradual and difficult for me. It has taken perseverance and considerable resilience along with my own research and experimentation. My advise is to insist on face to face time with BS staff until you are clear about the "best fit" for your hearing loss. The staff are brilliant, caring and trustworthy. I tried to be independent with on line consultations which delayed my progress. Also read the BS staff blogs on the latest assistive technology and become familiar with telecoil systems. There are lots of ways to improve how you hear, interact and maintain connection. Cinemas have telcoil areas and closed caption devises for you,and phones have voice activated screens so you hear and read at the same time. There's lots of options for TV hearing as well. I cannot recommend BS highly enough!

Approximate cost: $4000

After wearing my 2 Blamey Saunders hearing aids for 3 weeks I feel compelled to write a few words. I actually visited their office in Melbourne as I was in town visiting relatives. I rang them before flying down and they asked me to email a hearing test so that they could "get the ball rolling". The test revealed that I had profound hearing loss in my right ear and significant hearing loss loss in the left.
They fitted and tested various options and within 1.5hrs I was on my way with 2 hearing aids that were balanced to my specific needs. The staff were fantastic. I have fiddled with the settings via the computer program to adjust/customise the music channel. The improvement in my hearing and quality of life is enormous. I won't hesitate in recommending their product or service. I'm not surprised that the traditional hearing aid companies are concerned about this new Australian company who deal directly with you.

A very big heart felt THANK YOU. For the first time in 20 years I can HEAR classical music, all the notes, all the textures, all the nuances.

I went to the Hamer Hall on Monday night to hear the ACO, and the difference in my hearing compared to my previous aid was just amazing. I knew it would be, as I had been playing their CDs in my car and for the first time realised why the ACO is so highly acclaimed (and also why Bose is such a good sound system).

But there's more good news… I can hear conversation in cafes and restaurants with great clarity. No more leaning forward try to catch snippets of conversation — I get it all!

They are also very comfortable and I am no longer aware that I have a device in my ears.

Just wonderful, thank you. Please publish my review. I am telling all my friends in Probus, many of whom have hearing aids.

Thank you for the LOF aids which arrived promptly on 20th September together with the programming equipment. I immediately put them on and went for a walk outdoors. My immediate impression was that the world had come alive with sounds that I had not heard clearly for years. Subsequently I found that things such as bird song, running water, footsteps on gravel and clocks ticking were much more noticeable. Speech was more easily understood and coping with groups of people all talking at once is now much easier than it used to be.

I used the programming equipment and was able to tweak the settings to my liking without any difficulty. Being able to revert to the original factory setting is great safeguard for those of us who like to experiment!

Feedback is virtually non existent being at the worst just a brief chirp.

Congratulations on an excellent product marketed in a friendly manner and at an affordable price

Thought you would like to know that I am delighted with my purchase. Their performance is light years ahead of the Brand X units acquired in 2006 despite the very many efforts of the adiologist supplier to tune them to my satisfaction.

Determining the proper tubing lenght via the templates provided, ability to supply one's audiogram by fax/ mail & completion of on-line ordering, all could not be easier.

Delivery was surprisingly prompt, a matter of just a few days.

I carefully retained the packaging in case I had to utilise the 14 day money back trial period, but by the end of the first day of wearing, I had forgotten they were there & I was sold.

The provision of wax stops is a most usefull development as is the simple way to change volume & programs.

Power consumption seems low so battery life appears to be much longer than my previous imported aids.

Great value for the outlay, which is less than half the cost of current imports.

Hard of hearing people should be beating a pathway to your door.

Good luck with your further development of this technology.

Here is the guff about Prof Peter Blamey's hearing aids (as seen on ABC New Inventors) for your information.

It seems strange that one can buy a device such as this by mail/internet and that it is relatively so cheap. No doubt other audiologists will hate them, because the former (other audiologists) have enjoyed a virtual monopoly and have charged outrageously for their hearing aids — as evidenced by many of my friends who have outlaid something north of $7,000 for two.

I had a professional audiometry test which cost me $85.00 and sent it down to Blamey & Saunders with my order for two SIE aids, which cost me $2525.00, including shipping. They tuned the aids before sending them by mail and I have not looked back since. I am definitely a fan.

The obvious downside is — what happens when things go wrong? Melbourne is a long way away, but I surmise that since my previous aid (one cost $3200) has worked uninterrupted for seven years, then hopefully this more modern gear will last a similar time. However, I also bought their computer program and can re-tune mine myself if required. Although this may never be necessary, I am a bit of a geek and like playing with computers.

MBF will refund me $2000, so my all up cost: audiology + gear (computer program and two aids) is $895.00.

I have given the Blamey & Saunders aids a good test: in the car with passengers, at board meetings, at a Probus meeting and in a noisy restaurant (polished floor and low ceiling). My marital relations appear to have improved too; either Wife has stopped mumbling, or the gear works!

The final delight is the TV, because we no longer argue about the volume setting and I have little trouble with telephone conversations (at last).

Say no more! But thanks again for such good gear and wonderful service.

USPS delivered my new Blamey Saunders Hears hearing aids last Tuesday, and I've been wearing them for a week. They are, hands down, the best hearing aids I've ever had.

Straight out of the box it was clear that they needed adjusting. They were too loud, and they had feedback. So I attached them to my computer as instructed, and simply followed the directions. In less than an hour I had made my first adjustments. I was amazed at the clarity.

Since then I have adjusted them one more time. I can't believe how simple it is to adjust them any way I want.

I'm not sure what the technical differences are between my last two sets of hearing aids and these new ones, but I think one major difference is that I tune these myself. The software, IHearYou, is pretty remarkable when you consider how well it does its job.

I will never again have to rely on an audiologist to test my hearing, or adjust the settings on my hearing aids. Who could adjust hearing aids to my preferences better than I? Nobody. Duh!