Bernafon Digital Hearing Aids

Bernafon Hearing Aids UK

Discover Bernafon hearing aid models, features, prices, and reviews

Introduction to Bernafon hearing aids

Who makes Bernafon hearing aids?  Bernafon is owned by Demant A/S who also owns the hearing aid manufacturer Oticon and the hearing aid retailer Hidden Hearing. Bernafon is perceived as the lower-cost alternative to Oticon. For instance, it's like Volkswagen compared to Audi who are both parts of the same company.

Where are Bernafon hearing aids made?  Bernafon's UK manufacturing hub is in Hamilton, Scotland, where they also make Oticon hearing aids.

If you've been to Hidden Hearing then no doubt they'd recommend Bernafon or Oticon digital hearing aids.  If you're struggling to understand the make and model names of Bernafon hearing aids then here's a simple guide to help:

Bernafon hearing aid technology levels

The Bernafon hearing aid technology levels are 9, 7, 5, 3, and 1.  The higher the number, the higher the technology level and the higher the price.  They also introduced another technology structure, with Bernafon Encanta in March 2024.

These are categorised as 400, 300, 200, and 100 - with the higher number as the most advanced technology.

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History of Bernafon hearing aids

Who is Bernafon?  Are Bernafon hearing aids good?  Bernafon was established in 1946 in Switzerland by Hans Gfeller. It is one of the biggest producers of hearing aids today, with its products being sold in 70 countries around the globe. As part of the Demant Group (which also has the Oticon and Sonic hearing aid brands), they have always strived to develop the highest quality hearing technology.

Hearing and understanding are essential for communication. Drawing on years of Swiss innovation, Bernafon is ideally positioned to support individuals with hearing loss to regain their quality of life and strengthen communication with family and friends.

Bernafon uses advanced technologies and high-quality technology to significantly reduce the negative effects that hearing loss has on individuals, their families, and society as a whole.

The company’s hearing aids use cutting-edge technology to offset hearing loss while offering useful extras such as wireless connectivity for seamless pairing with your mobile phone. Their hearing aids are known for their natural sound quality and discreet, yet inexpensive designs.

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Special features of Bernafon hearing aids

Bernafon understands that the environments that hearing aid wearers face are not static, but dynamic. They never sit still for one second. Our environment can rapidly shift from quiet and subdued to loud and boisterous, often in seconds.

The company, therefore, believes that because of the opportunities for unforeseen changes, it's best not to label certain listening situations. Their concept is how the sound environment as an active and continually evolving landscape.

These dynamic situations demand a dynamic hearing aid. To help wearers keep up with these dynamic shifts, Bernafon hearing aids aim to persistently monitor the surroundings for any changes in sound and help the wearer understand speech - even in the face of these changes within sound. Key to this philosophy is their DECS technology.

Bernafon's Smart Sensor technology

Bernafon Smart Sensor Technology uses motion detection to understand and switch your focus on one person or many amongst the noise. Smart Noise Reduction, combined with the Smart Sensor, allows you to benefit from a greater range of sound details - even in noise.

Smart Noise Management adjusts to the environment you are in, giving you improved sound quality and clear speech in noisy listening scenarios. Smart Directionality uses different listening strategies and prioritises depending on your soundscape. Such as localisation of speech within sound. Giving you better speech direction, clarity, and understanding in all listening situations.

Bernafon hearing aid's Hybrid technology

Bernafon's Hybrid technology, inspired by animals' acute hearing abilities, enables wearers to experience a 360-degree auditory environment. Like animals filtering unwanted noises while focusing on specific sounds, this system prioritises sounds of interest.

Wearers can seamlessly transition from immersive surround sound to focused attention, similar to animals tuning in to prey while blocking out distractions during hunting. This innovative approach ensures superior hearing in noisy environments and reduces fatigue compared to traditional hearing aid processing strategies.

Bernafon hearing aid's DECS technology

As the heart of all its approaches, Bernafon utilises this technology to help individuals hear better. No strict classification limits are used by the technology. It operates infrequently changing listening settings which allows the wearer to adjust their sound levels dynamically and seamlessly.

This essentially means that the system looks into your world of sound and keeps tweaking hearing aid settings for optimal benefit.

Bernafon hearing aid's Dynamic Feedback Canceller

This new Dynamic Feedback Canceller (DFC) operates ten times faster than the system that preceded it, which means it is the fastest and most efficient feedback cancellation technology.

Bernafon hearing aid's ChannelFree feature

This enables the entire use of audio signals, without dividing them into several channels. Audio quality can be processed more naturally and without the loss of high frequencies, which are vital for a high-quality hearing experience, especially when listening to music. The effect is a very natural and rich sound.

Bernafon hearing aid app

The EasyControl-A hearing aid app can control Bernafon hearing aid volume adjustments and switch programs, check battery status, and so on in a quick and discreet way. There's also a function called ‘Find my hearing instrument’ for when you put your hearing aid somewhere and forget where you have put it.

Bernafon hearing aid accessories

Besides hearing aids, Bernafon features a broad variety of hearing aid accessories to complement your hearing experiences such as apps, streamers, microphones, and remote controls. Such as the Bernafon hearing aids TV adapter - TV-A - as well as the SoundClip-A, and RC-A Remote Control.

Bernafon hearing aid troubleshooting and support

Your audiologist will go through your hearing healthcare as well as how to use, adjust, and maintain your hearing aids.  Such as:

• How to clean Bernafon hearing aids
• Pairing Bernafon hearing aids to iPhone and Android
• How to do Bernafon hearing aid volume adjustments
• The Bernafon hearing aid batteries you will need

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What hearing aids have Bernafon launched?

Bernafon Encanta hearing aids

Launched in March 2024, the Bernafon Encanta hearing aid's main focus was to offer four clear performance levels that cater to each unique hearing loss. For example, a hearing solution that fits in with your hearing loss needs, lifestyle, and budget.

Wearers will also appreciate the Smart Sensor technology that detects head and body movements.  This technology gives you seamless listening transitions in various environments, such as focusing on one person in a group and engaging in a larger group conversation by providing better speech understanding.

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Berafon Alpha XT hearing aids

Launched in March 2023, the Bernafon Alpha XT hearing aids promised to be an extension of the Hybrid Technology, first seen in the original Alpha, but more comprehensive. It still incorporated the core Hybrid features but with a new complimentary feature - the Hybrid Sound Care, which removed noise at the beginning of the signal processing.

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Bernafon Alpha hearing aids

Launched in  March 2020, the Bernafon Alpha hearing aids included hybrid processing technology (a world's first at launch) and set the standard for balance between delivering natural optimised sound, increased speech understanding, and improved listening comfort - using the way animals naturally hear.

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Bernafon Leox hearing aids

Launched in 2019, the Bernafon Leox hearing aids were the first superpower and ultra-power aids to include True Environment Processing for severe to profound hearing loss.  With advanced amplification, strong feature settings, and realistic sound for the wearer.

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Bernafon Viron hearing aids

Bernafon Viron was the first' True Environment Processing' hearing aid in the industry at the time of release. The new processing chip provided extremely fast sound detection and processing to provide wearers with more accurate data in real-time about their environment. It also included the newly patented feedback cancelling system.

Bernafon Zerena hearing aids

A ‘Made for iPhone’ hearing aid, the Bernafon Zerena was able to connect directly to iPhones using low-energy 2.4 GHz Bluetooth technology. This meant it could be used to stream music, video podcasts, and other audio content directly into the hearing aid. 

This was also the first of Bernafon’s models to take advantage of their DECS technology. 

Bernafon Juna hearing aids

For a long time, the Juna was their premium hearing aid included Audio Efficiency technology that switched hearing settings automatically, depending on the sound environment you are in.  One of the best things about these Bernafon hearing aids, at the time, was that they featured ChannelFree technology.

This technology amplifies speech signals 20,000 times every second, which leads to a vastly improved and natural sound quality.