5
Testing hearing instruments
Testing a hearing instrument involves the following main tasks:
1.
Calibrating the reference microphone
Otometrics recommends that you calibrate the reference microphone daily or weekly. Set up the interval to suit your pur-
poses. See
Calibrating the reference microphone
.
2.
Positioning the hearing instrument
General instructions are described in
•
Traditional BTE hearing instruments
•
•
3.
Testing
When you have positioned the hearing instrument correctly, you can test it using the OTOsuite HIT module as described
in
How to perform a standard test
, or you can perform coupler-based fitting as described in the AURICAL FreeFit and
the Probe Microphone Measurements documentation.
5.1
Calibrating the reference microphone
1. Launch OTOsuite and select the
HIT
module in the
Navigation
panel.
2. Position the microphones in the center of the test chamber.
Otometrics - AURICAL HIT
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