I haven’t worn hearing aids before, decided recently to try them. Started with highly rated top level Jabra. Hated them. Hard to get in my ear, and behind the ear piece ran into glasses earpiece. Very difficult to talk on cell phone because of touching the sound piece when holding up to ear. Yuck! $2000. Tried Eargo in-ear, way too big for my small ear canal. Hurt. $2500. Tried these inexpensive Sony, they’re great! Easy to insert, super comfortable, sound good, very easy to get in and out. Very simple operation, no unnecessary Bluetooth connections or superfluous settings to change. Batteries are great, small, and way cheap; kept forgetting to charge the others. Super satisfied where I thought hearing aids were gonna be an awful experience. Wow! Thanks, Sony!

These hearing aids work great! My old hearing aids weren’t good at picking out speech in noisy situations which led me to buy these Sony CRE-C10 as they seemed to meet my requirements, were a high end product from a company I trust, and not overly expensive. After the initial set-up and some fine tuning, I can hear conversations again! And they are so comfortable that I don’t notice I have them on, until l take them off and wonder why everything is suddenly quiet. The batteries are a little tricky to change but it gets easier with practice and they do last about 70 hours as advertised. The only drawback is that they don’t have Bluetooth for streaming music etc but I have airpods for that when needed. All in all a great product that I can heartily recommend to anyone with similar hearing issues.

I purchased these because they have a replaceable battery so for me it is a pro not a con that they are not rechargeable and here is why. I purchased Eargo 2 years ago and paid close to 3,000 for them. I have had nothing but problems with the charging, the case, the inability to communicate to the cell phone app and finally this. Constantly having one or both lose power and also realizing that after about a year and a half most small rechargeable batteries used in these rechargeable hearing aids simply no longer take a full charge. My Eargo's were a horrible purchase. These are very similar in size and I don't feel concerned about people seeing them. I would say the sound is as good as the eargo. In some ways maybe better? I think I got used to the loud harshness of the eargo and these have a softer maybe more natural sound causing me to wonder if they were doing anything. But after a few days I realize they work quite well. The batteries are stupid cheap and you get some audible tones for replacement time. I now use my hearing aids all day long. I stopped using the eargo until we were going out in the evening to meet friends because I knew I might only get a couple hours out of them. These are very acceptable if you are not ready to cross the threshold into professional behind the ear hearing aids. Not perfect at all but quite acceptable. Occasional ringing can be resolved by pulling it slightly out of the ear or lowering the volume. Battery replacement may be an issue depending on dexterity but I'm having no problems at all replacing mine.

Pretty good before the left one just stopped working after 3 months. For $1000, It's acceptable. I like how it fits discreetly inside the ear. Sound can be a bit tinny and echoey. Some feedback once in a while but not bad. I'm still using the right one. I'll try contacting Sony and see if they will give me an exchange. Update: My left one is working fine now. I think I had some bad batteries. They batteries come in packs of 6, and the one pack must have been old or bad. I wear them everyday, all day. I noticed that I can turn down the volume of my car speakers by 25 percent when I have them on. I watch a lot of foreign shows on TV so they dialogue can be hard to follow because of the accents. With these hearing aids I can catch a lot more of the dialogue by ear without reading the captions. It doesn't solve all of my hearing problems because some of it is due to my brain not processing speech as well as it used to. That has nothing to do with the volume of the speech. It does help enough though that I wear them all the time now. Some day I may splurge for custom fitted ones for that cost $6000 or more, but these will do for now. Update2: After reading some other reviews I realized that I need to fine tune the sound quality in the app. The fine tuning has made the sound quality almost perfect now. The echo and feedback are completely gone now. There is some very minor, mostly unnoticeable tinniness but the sound is so close to natural now that I sometimes check to see to if I'm still wearing them. Update3: Still using them everyday but there is an issue when changing the battery. Sometimes I need to close and open (turns off when it's open) the battery holder 3 or 4 times before it recognizes a new fully charged battery. After that it works normally until the next battery change. I think it may a problem with keeping the contacts clean. I have started to make sure to blow air into it to make sure there's nothing in the battery compartment.

Hands down these are better in every way than my ME RIC 312 that cost $5000.00. Zero wind noise, sound quality is great and the self fitting is equally impressive. No more scratching sounds is a bonus as well. Highly recommend the CRE C10s.

These were ok for my hearing but having to deal with batteries is a deal breaker for me.

Fit was great, no need to pay extra for custom fit. But unfortunately my hearing requirements exceded the current OTC possibilities, thanks to the great service of the vendor I returned it to them at full refund. Dont miss test it

I tried these recently and thought they were pretty good. I only wanted invisible style OTC so there is not much available. I subtracted one star because one ear had very annoying feedback - even my wife could hear it standing nearby. Even in my hand it suffered feedback, whereas the right one did not. I could have lived with it, but returned it instead and ordered a replacement. The jury is still out. It does not have the advanced features Bluetooth models have because its so tiny and doesn't have Bluetooth. But I was willing to trade that for its discrete appearance and great comfort. If the replacement eliminates the feedback it will be 5 stars and I'll update the review. Edit: I bought a second one and it’s slightly better. Less feedback (now it’s the other ear!). Still not perfect but pretty good.

I tried a couple of other ones. Set up was simple, follow the bouncing ball. These work very well, and are tiny. The most important thing is that since they are so small you use your ears and get a 3D perception of sound so sounds are directional. The other ones were too big and you lose that, it can make you dizzy. So five stars for sound quality and comfort. They are too small for rechargeable batteries, which is a bummer. Batteries last like two days. And they ain't cheap. But some of these things can get quite expensive... All in all it's Sony quality. So do I recommend them? Yes.

These OTC hearing aids are very small and discreet. I chose these because I have a pair of prescription RIC aids that get in the way while wearing glasses, removing T’s, and Pullovers. The Sony Cre-C10’s also did not catch the wind when bike riding. I have small ear canals and didn’t find them uncomfortable as some have said. I removed a star because a simple blue and red dot would have been a quick solution to finding the right or left bud. I found I had to reach for glasses because the tiny R&L are hard to distinguish in low lighting. Unfortunately as I age my hearing has diminished substantially in 1 ear. I now have a severe loss which these aids cannot compensate for. I wore them for 3 weeks and returned them for a full no hassle refund. In summary: I was amazed that these aids worked so well. If not for the 1 bad ear I would’ve loved to have kept them.

The media could not be loaded. I got prescription level, top-of-the-line, and hearing aids a few years ago and I did not like them at all. And they were $2000. These are fantastic three sets of sleeve, depending on what kind of or size ear hole you have fit perfectly. I’m 6 foot, 215 pounds in the small out of the box fit my ears perfectly.. I keep saying perfectly a lot, but these are just amazing. I can hear good. I can adjust the volume you can’t even see their in my ear. I’ll post a picture of that. Go to a hockey game they turn himself down and go outside. They themselves stop playing the guitar they sound great. I use headphones with them music and no problem at all. Easy to take out easy to put in. I love the fact that the batteries so I can swap a battery out and the last three or four days up to two weeks depending how much use them. You might find a different experience, but for me, I’m blown away. We’re in the car, my wife sitting in the passenger seat and say, can you even see these things are my ears and she looked at me and said” see what, in your ears” There you go, enough said Be very careful pulling off a sleev if you want to try the other sizes. It’s easy to pull them apart/tear if you don’t get your finger nail under the metal end piece that snaps it onto the hearing aid.

This product does what it promises at a fraction of the cost of Eargos. Everyone has very unique ear canals and a trillion different causes on why they need hearing amplifiers. Per my ear canals and need for hearing amplification, they work for me and are a quality product. If this product does not work for you, it is more likely than not particular to your situation than a faulty product.

Very comfortable to wear and great sound. The only thing visible from the ear is the pull cord. The hearing test / setup was easy to accomplish; just READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. Of course I would prefer not having to open the battery compartment to shut them off, but a switch would increase the size of the units and make them too visible. The batteries are cheap and readily available. They last about a week for me. My previous Eargos were rechargeable, but they died at 2 years and the rechargeable batteries can’t be replaced. They also accumulated much more wax because of their floret design. They required much more cleaning than these Sonys. I also believe the cup design seals much better than the florets, helping with feedback. The Sonys are also much more economical than the Eargos brand.

After a few months I am very happy with these aids. Setup was easy. Small enough that they go unnoticed. I have the 5 thousand dollar aids but really do prefer these.

Seemed to work fairly well for an hour before the battery compartment on one broke. It’s a poor design when you have to pull the battery to turn them off. Broke the first time I tried to remove one.

I was extremely disappointed with this product. Not only was the tone very thin (even when I adjusted the tone control) but I found they amplified all the background noise to a level that made it even more difficult to hear the person who was speaking in front of me. I would not recommend these hearing aids at all.

12 ms Latency Delay may not make these suitable for everyone? I am a Musician and the aforementioned LATENCY DELAY left me with a sound that RESEMBLED HOLDING A LONG PIPE UP TO MY EARS! Also had some PERSISTENT FEEDBACK! I DID RETURN Them and will be looking for a Pair that has LESS THAN 10ms LATENCY TIME!

Guys, this product is excellent. You just download the app, the setting is super easy, you get accuracy and it they are very comfortable. I had the other traditional hearing aids for years and always complained how uncomfortable and itching they were. These Sony ones are great! They come with three size bud fittings. I don’t even remember I have them on! You can program them individually according to the needs of each ear. Anyways, I love them and highly recommend them.

I was excited to get these because they are small and I am annoyed with the over the ear amplifier, there’s an app that you have to register with email and password after giving them too much info then you have to take a hearing test one ear st a time answering a series of how many beeps did you hear 0-4 I could only hear few out of about 8 different times, I failed the test and tried again three more times, so I wasn’t able to get the point when I could actually hear anything with them in my ears, no option other than returning them very disappointed , they are very small and comfortable wish they would have worked for me

I have tried many hearing aids over the years, and these are by far the best. If you have tried Signia as I have, you will quickly learn that they are made in collaboration with that company, which charges many times the price of these. And these are better than my Signias! Set up is simple, and better the results are better than multiple trips to the audiologist. Highly Recommended!

My wife really notices my ability to hear her and demands I wear these. These fit completely in the ear canal, so are virtually invisible. The right size ear cup makes a huge difference in comfort. The XS work best for me. I've tried (and returned) some cheaper aids, but they amplified the noise as much as what I wanted to hear. These work a lot better. Some noise is still amplified, but if the setup is done correctly, it isn't bad. I've noticed a big improvement in hearing the TV, hearing conversations in public, and improved hearing in crowded situations. The app leaves a lot to be desired but gives some basic control. I wish there were some preset configurations to quickly set up the aids for different situations (crowds vs. outdoors vs. in the house). If I want to use earbuds, I have to take these out but hasn't been too big of a deal. The aids are really small, so I've had to be careful to have the case handy, or I might lose one when I'm using earbuds. These aren't perfect but look like keepers.

I bought this hearing aid for my 99 year old mother, but I have not been able to connect to program them because the app is not available for my country $1000 dollars to the trash can. Plus I bought a whole bunch of batteries.... so disappointed

Have used the Costco hearing aids for 2 years, decided to try these, and they are definitively an improvement noise magnified is a little better, speech remains a problem, these aids do not provide to differentiate spoken words, it fares better but not there yet. Will keep them and hope technology continues to improve and as research/production delivers a better product in a not too distant future. Unfortunately, purchased them before the 100 dollars discount!! bummer!

Received same day, easy setup using phone and following instructions, sounds it tailored better than the audiologist did on my last hearing aids. I have had Eargo Neo Hifi’s, Eargo 7 and oticon in ear hearing aids and these beat them all! I’m one day in but completely impressed with the sound quality and being able to hear TV and my wife! She’s happy about that too!

Sadly, I returned these hearing aids bc I was not able to hear the low tones. And the right side was causing discomfort to a point that I was having an earache trying to fit the right side in.

Bought the battery one, and glad I did. The batteries last a long time, are relatively inexpensive, and the smaller hearing aid fits nicely in the ear and is hard to see from the outside. No regrets-downside is I have no excuses now when my wife asks me to do something!

I have used behind-the-ear hearing aids for over 25 years. My hearing loss is “moderate to severe”, mostly caused by exposure to machinery and genetics. My complaint with BTE’s was that the sound was never natural. I have used Resound, phonac , Lively and Lucid brand BTE’s and could not understand speech from children or from the TV. These new Sony CIC’s have eliminated that problem. I have the volume set about mid scale and I can hear everything much more clearly than with any previous device. I think it is because the CIC design takes advantage of your outer ear shape to direct the sound to the device whereas the BTE design relies on their tiny microphones to capture the sound. I have the CRE-C10 model. I prefer the battery over the rechargeable because if they go dead I can immediately recover whereas with a rechargeable model I would need to wait several hours to recover. I highly recommend this product.

I have limited experience with hearing aids other than handling my parents for comparison. For the money, these are high quality and did assist my ability to converse easier in public. If you are sensitive about being seen with them in, these go a long way in helping ease your anxiety. I wore them around the house for the first two days and my wife and three kids never once noticed them. I am in the process of returning as I have small ear canals and they were very uncomfortable for short periods of time even with the XS attachments. If I could have found a way to make them fit comfortably, I would have kept them. If you are on the fence about dropping 3-6k on hearing aids, I would try these and definitely recommend.

They didn’t work for me it was either all background noise or no sound couldn’t find a setting to help my hearing without having a lot of background noise and my own voice sounded like a robot.

Sony CRE-C10 Self-Fitting OTC Hearing Aids are amazing! These Sony hearing aids replaced my Starkey Invisible In Canal Hearing Aids that I have had for years. I originally was fitted with Starkey's custom made invisible in the canal hearing aids in 2014. They were just about $7,000 for that first pair. In 2019, I had to replace them because I had broken one of them and warranty had ran out. The next set was a little cheaper at $5,700. Both sets took molds of my ear canals to give me a perfect fit. Wearing hearing aids changed my life and I was very happy with the improvement they provided. Unfortunately; the perfect fit from the custom made in my ear made me constantly feel like I was under water or in a plane. I had to constantly clear my ear pressure by plugging nose and blowing hard. I had constant adjustments with audiologist and I was never perfectly satisfied with the units. The uncomfortable feeling of the custom made units just made me stop wearing them about 2 years ago. It was Covid-19 time and I just didn't want to wear them around the house. When the FDA approved over the counter hearing aids; I was skeptical. I watched many ads on TV and social media for other products and I was not convinced OTC would work. Then the Sony CRE-C10 Self-Fitting OTC Hearing Aid showed up in my social media feed. I did some research and they looked very similar to my Starkey units. Difference was there was an adjustable vented sleeve that was over the unit. Basically like an earbud with multiple sizes. I decided to try them. They were less than $1,000 and came with an assortment of sized vented sleeves. I took them out of the box and followed the app instructions. Within about 30 minutes; I had them up and running and adjusting the volume and control on my units. They are way more comfortable than the custom made Starkey units since the vented sleeve forms to your ear and leave an air opening in the canal. Gone are the feelings of my ears being plugged up like on a plane. After using about 2 weeks; I have done just a few adjustments and they are superstars. My ear size for the vented sleeve is size Small and that was what was installed on the units when they arrived. So basically; unboxed, downloaded the app, paired and put them in ears - Voila they worked. It was super easy and I love them. I rarely write reviews and hope that this one helps!

I suffered sudden hear loss on Easter, an aerosol can exploded in my bathroom, resulting on losing 40% of my hearing in both ears. I saw 2 ENT Dr's and an Audiologists. They reccomend hearing aids. I then went to my local Costco , which I highly reccomend, if purchaseing RX hearing aids, you save thousand of $. The Costco I want to let me Demo very similar hearing aids to the Sony's for a week. They were Rexton's , which are also made by the Sony , and Signer mfg. They are the same product essential, but different levels of technology. The costco Rexton were $2200, used the exact same app as Sony' s. Just with a different app name. The biggest difference was the Rexton units had 1 more preprogrammed app, setting that was restaurant mode which would turn down background noice in loud settings. While that was very helpful, and I do miss it, these are essential the same units as they Rexton. & Signer brand hearing aids. They just have some features turned off. They definitely work. I'm happy with them.for the price. I reccomend watching youtube Dr Cliff to help setup. He reccomends over boosting loudness control over Sony's reccomend setting, it help me get the most power from the units.

HORRIBLE app login and tech support Just got these things and attempting to create, confirm an email, and login has been impossible, what a lousy onboarding process. Called tech support and the automated prompt randomly hung-up on me due to background noise Wow, Sony's been around a few..you'd think they would have worked out the kinks by now.

Why did I wait so long? These guys are easy to insert and remove. Very simple to set up and adjust, once in my ears, I forget they are there and my hearing is excellent.Another fine product from Sony at a good price. I recommend them wholeheartedly!

I have mild to moderate hearing loss. I have been using the Sony C10’s for a week now. I feel my hearing has improved greatly. I no longer have to ask people to repeat themselves. Highly recommend.

I've worn hearing aids for 15 years now. About 2 years ago I got Eargo 5s. They're okay, but I was hoping for better sound clarity so I tried these. To begin with, I struggled to get the app to save my hearing test settings. It just couldn't get it. Wearing the Sonys always felt like my ears were plugged up, even with the smallest click sleeve, and I kept fiddling with them. And I felt like I heard my voice in my nose (like when you wear earplugs). I couldn't really understand people any better, even after tweaking with the app (which is quite decent). Eargos were rechargeable, and I wish these had been too. These are cheaper than Eargos; so if they work for you it can save you some money, although you'll have to buy batteries.

These hearing aids sound better than my $3000 hearing aids that I had to constantly have adjusted. I can wear them all day with no discomfort and don’t even know they are in my ears. I have only had them three days now however with the Sony name I trust that they will be durable and problem free. Time ,of course will tell. The setup and app controlled hearing test is simple, easy and seems accurate and sounds are crisp and clear. I put them in a dry case each night to eliminate any accumulated moisture from each days wearing to extend their life.