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We’veforeverraisedthebaronfrequencyloweringtechnologies

with Spectral iQ. The industry’s smartest way to restore audibility for

patientswithsteeplysloping,high-frequencyhearingloss,SpectraliQ:

•Intelligentlyidentieshigh-frequency

speech cues, then replicates them in

lowerfrequencies

•Doesnotlimithigh-frequencybandwidth,

which competing technologies do

 •Maintainsimportantfrequencyrelationships,

retainingthesoundqualitythatcomesfrom

harmonic distribution, while restoring high-

frequencyspeechaudibilityforpatientsthat

may have previously been considered

unaidable

•Isbetterabletoidentifyspeechsounds

withhigh-frequencycomponentssuch

as “s” while not affecting other already

audible speech sounds

Percent correct identiﬁcation of word

ﬁnal fricatives /s/ or /z/, as a function

of Spectral iQ settings on the S-test

(Robinson, Baer, and Moore, 2007).*

Patients performed signiﬁcantly better

with Spectral iQ on at their preferred

setting than with Spectral iQ off (p<0.001).

Moving from their preferred setting

to the maximum setting again showed

signiﬁcant improvements in word ﬁnal

consonant identiﬁcation (p<0.05).

100

Spectral iQ

Off

Spectral iQ

Preferred Setting

2AFC Percent Correct

Spectral iQ

Max Setting

Test Condition

Data is from a 2011 Starkey Clinical Trial.

*Robinson, J.D., Baer, T. & Moore, B.C.J. (2007). Using transposition to improve consonant discrimination and

detection for listeners with severe high-frequency hearing loss. International Journal of Audiology, 46(6), 293-308.

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