Frye Electronics

We are pleased to announce the release of a new update to our popular FONIX NOAH Real-ear Module. This module provides a computer-based interface with all supported FONIX hearing aid analyzers. This new release adds the new MOD NAL formula with reduced gain prescriptions.

The FONIX FP35 hearing aid analyzer has exciting new software and hardware updates including improved NAL-NL1 targets for moderate gain hearing aids, improved Digital Speech testing for aids with feedback management, a new test for frequency shifting aids, real-ear and coupler SPL third octave analysis, battery current drain, and external speech input. All existing FP35s can be upgraded to the new software. Please contact us with your serial number to receive a upgrade quote.

New FP35s are now being shipped with a faster, quieter printer!

Frye Electronics built the first 8000 in January of 2010. The Polar Plot sound chamber is a new innovation in the world of hearing aid testing, containing a special configuration in which the directional hearing aid is mounted vertically and automatically rotated 360° in order to obtain polar plot measurements within a clinical test environment. With directional hearing aids becoming more and more popular every year, this technology is a vital tool for any hearing health professional.

The FONIX 8000 analyzer has new advanced computing power with extremely fast measurements, USB computer connectivity, and the ability to add new innovations such as the directional polar plot measurements. Dual Probe with built-in Speech-like signals are expected to be released by October, 2010.

New Product - HEARLab ACA

National Acoustics Laboratories has partnered with Frye Electronics to produce the HEARLab System. HEARLab performs Cortical Auditory Evoked Potential (CAEP) measurements, which are used to estimate whether sounds are easily detectable by the patient.

A statistical analysis of each response is automatically calculated to determine the likeliness that the patient detected the test signal. The clinician can verify this analysis with a visual examination of the measured cortical response.

Two types of CAEP tests are available: Aided Cortical Assessment (ACA) and Cortical Threshold Evaluation (CTE). ACA measurements use speech tokens with low, mid, and high frequency emphasis in order to measure the aided CAEP and verify the effectiveness of the hearing aid fitting. CTE measurements use highly frequency-specific tones to estimate the unaided hearing thresholds. These tests are particularly useful in testing patients unwilling or unable to cooperate with normal audiometric tests.

Currently available as export-only with FDA approval pending.

WinCHAP Computer Hearing Aid Program

We have released v3.00 of the WinCHAP program. This update adds support for the FONIX 8000 Hearing Aid Test System including a new test for grabbing Coupler Directional results made with the Polar Plot sound chamber