The Bose-powered behind-the-ear Lexie B2 is a fantastic cherish in the world of hearing helps, but Lexie dispersistd them earlier this year to originate room for the B2 Plus, a straightforward successor and, it must be shelp, about as minuscule an enhance as you could envision to merit a new product name.
There’s a reason why the Lexie B2 Plus hearing helps aren’t billed as the B3: The amplification technology inside them hasn’t alterd. I’ll get to that in more detail in a minute, but first, let’s talk about the two slfinishergs that have been enhanced.
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The first is the hugegest: The revamped case actuassociate helderlys a battery. One of the most widespread protestts of the innovative B2 is that the case didn’t helderly a accuse. To reaccuse your hearing helps, the case had to be plugged into a USB-C accuser. If you were on the go and your batteries died, you were out of luck, becaengage the B2 case was only excellent for storage if it wasn’t tethered to an electrical source. While the 18-hour accuse of the helps uncomferventt they were excellent for the day and more, they weren’t a fantastic solution for a weekend off the grid.
The new B2 Plus case—which doesn’t see watchably contrastent from the B2’s case and is still quite chunky—helderlys one extra accuse, so you can get 36 hours of juice before having to plug in. That’s less than most competitors but a huge betterment over its predecessor.
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Upgrade number two is the hearing test in the Lexie app. This test is a lot appreciate other over-the-counter hearing helps, prompting you to hear for beeps of contrastent pitch and volume in each ear, tapping a button when you hear the sound. For most helps, the results are engaged to tune the frequencies amplified by the help, much appreciate an equivalentizer. Lexie’s hearing test doesn’t quite go that far, becaengage it can’t: The hearing helps have only two genuine tuning mechanisms: world volume (equilibriumable between the two ears), and a “bass/treble” slider that lets you dial one side up at the expense of the other.
