The Real Solution to Hear Your Best...
While Listening to Music

Harmony is designed to deliver all the details, layers, and complexities that make music so textured and rich.

• The T-Mic^® captures sound like a natural ear and is fully compatible with ear buds like those that come with MP3 players.
• HiRes Fidelity 120^®* delivers 120 spectral bands so that you or your child can hear more of the details that are needed for hearing music.
• AutoSound™ continually adjusts the volume as you listen, ensuring you don’t miss a single note.
• Harmony’s wide IDR enables you to hear more sound with less distortion so that it’s easier to hear music and make out lyrics and individual instruments.

In fact, an independent study shows that for listening to music, Harmony recipients prefer a wide IDR over a narrow IDR (programmed like Cochlear systems).⁵

REAL SCIENCE

Real Science

This study demonstrates that Harmony's wide input dynamic range (IDR) makes it easier to hear in the real world. Harmony users understand soft speech much better with a wide IDR than a narrow IDR. They're also able to hear sounds that alert you—such as telephone rings, car horns, doorbells, and alarm clocks—much better with Harmony's wide IDR.⁵ The competition provides a narrower IDR than AB.

An unbiased study conducted by Wolfe and Mears shows that Harmony recipients prefer a wide IDR over a narrow IDR (programmed like the competition) for listening to music.⁵

Another study determined that Harmony recipients report a much higher degree of satisfaction than recipients using older technology when listening to music.⁷ For a richer hearing experience with music, choose Harmony from AB.

*HiRes Fidelity 120 is not approved for pediatric patients in the United States.

5. Wolfe J, Mears A. Effect of Input Dynamic Range on Speech Recognition and Music Enjoyment. Poster presentation at the 10th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies, San Diego, CA, April 10–12, 2008.

7. Quick A, Koch DB, Osberger MJ. HiResolution with Fidelity 120 Sound Processing: Listening Benefits in CII and HiRes 90K Implant Users. Poster Presentation at the Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, CA, July 15–20, 2007.