Looking for a hearing aid that has noise cancelling and is rechargeable for around 1000+ baht. Would like some advice too please. Have tried several different ones with mixed not so great success.

It is not for me and I don't read Thai so trying to understand what the specifications are, or claim to be, is difficult even when translated.

It seems that the behind the ear models have more room for adjustment than in the ear ones.

Cany anyone recommend a Britzgo or Blue dot or other similar looking brand and model that actually works and cuts out background noise.

Thankyou very much,🙏

33 minutes ago, notrub said:

Looking for a hearing aid that has noise cancelling and is rechargeable for around 1000+ baht. Would like some advice too please. Have tried several different ones with mixed not so great success.

It is not for me and I don't read Thai so trying to understand what the specifications are, or claim to be, is difficult even when translated.

It seems that the behind the ear models have more room for adjustment than in the ear ones.

Cany anyone recommend a Britzgo or Blue dot or other similar looking brand and model that actually works and cuts out background noise.

Thankyou very much,🙏

Finding noise cancelling ones here has been a nightmare. My original died from humidity a decade ago and the replacements I've had (ITC, ITE, or BTC) have all been quite poor, with the ITC one being the best but not rechargeable and the batteries cost a fortune.
So, I follow this topic with interest.
Please tell us of any success.
Good luck.

Have a look on AliExpress, loads on there

The first time I rode my bicycle wearing AirPods as hearing aids, I nearly fell off. The only way I can describe the feeling accurately is to compare it with your first experience of entering a Japanese pachinko parlor...the sound is so powerful that you feel like your brain is inside the machine. For years I had assumed that the countryside outside Chiang Rai was a relatively quiet place. Then, one morning, I switched on the hearing-assistance feature and was immediately surrounded by sound. Birds called from every direction. Insects buzzed in the fields. The wind rustled through the trees. I found myself slowing down simply to listen.

What made the experience remarkable was not that the sounds were new. They had been there all along. I just hadn’t been hearing them.

For years, I had no idea my hearing was deteriorating. Then, twenty years earlier, a school principal called me into his office to discuss a lesson he had recently observed. Everything seemed to be going well until he mentioned that a student sitting behind me had asked a question that I had completely failed to hear. To his credit, he hadn’t mentioned the incident in his report, but he gently suggested that I have my hearing checked.

I was a little over forty years old and considered myself to be in reasonably good shape. The possibility that I had a hearing problem had never crossed my mind.

However, after an audiologist put me through a battery of tests in a soundproof booth, the results were unmistakable. I had profound hearing loss in my left ear and significant hearing loss in my right.

The diagnosis came as a shock. Like many people, I associated hearing aids with old age. Worse still, they were expensive. Since my right ear still seemed to be functioning reasonably well, I asked whether I could get away with buying just one hearing aid. The audiologist advised against it, explaining that my brain would struggle to process the imbalance. At the time, I briefly suspected that this recommendation might be as good for his bank account as it was for my hearing. Unfortunately for my bank account, every bit of research I did supported his opinion. A little over $5,000 later, I became the reluctant owner of a pair of hearing aids.

To be fair, they helped. Conversations became easier.

Several years after receiving my hearing aids, I forgot to wear them one afternoon. While teaching a Grade 8 class, a student in the back row raised his hand and asked a question. I caught only the first few words before the rest dissolved into a blur of classroom noise. Not wanting to interrupt the flow of the lesson, I nodded confidently and launched into what I assumed was a reasonable answer.

The puzzled expression on the student’s face should have warned me.

When I finished, another student slowly raised her hand.

“Sir,” she said, trying not to smile, “he was asking if he could go to the bathroom.”

The room erupted in laughter. I had just delivered a two-minute explanation of the causes of the French Revolution in response to a request for a hall pass.

The student eventually got permission to leave, and I learned a valuable lesson: when you haven’t heard the question, it’s safer to ask for it again than to pretend you did.

That lesson stuck. From then on, I asked for repetition rather than risk another historical lecture over a bathroom request. I was relieved to no longer have to bluff my way through discussions after missing half of what had been said.

I never quite got over the price of hearing aids, however. Whenever I asked why they were so expensive, I was treated to lengthy explanations about research costs, specialized technology, and development expenses. The explanations may have been accurate, but they didn’t make the price sting any less.

As the years passed, I began experimenting with less expensive alternatives. They weren’t marketed as hearing aids but as hearing amplifiers. The distinction seemed important to someone in a marketing department, though less so to me. Unlike proper hearing aids, they amplified almost everything equally. Birds, conversations, passing trucks, air conditioners, and barking dogs all received the same enthusiastic boost. The results were imperfect, but surprisingly effective for the price.

One unexpected benefit of hearing loss was discovering that it gave me a certain degree of control over what I heard. Requests such as “Can you take out the garbage?” occasionally faded into happy oblivion. So did the endless soundtrack of cartoons playing on my grandniece’s iPad. I cannot honestly say that hearing loss improved my life, but neither was it the unmitigated disaster I had imagined when I first received the diagnosis.

Then, two decades after that principal’s office, Apple entered the story.

The arrival of AirPods with hearing-assistance features was the biggest game changer I had experienced in those twenty years. At roughly $249, they cost a fraction of what I had paid for my original hearing aids, yet they performed surprisingly well. Not perfectly—perhaps seventy-five percent as well as top-end hearing aids—but well enough to make me wonder where all those thousands of dollars had gone. An additional advantage was social camouflage. People assumed I was listening to music or a podcast.

The real surprise, however, arrived on a bicycle ride. There was one particular bird whose call I could always hear—loud, persistent, impossible to ignore. I had unconsciously assumed it was simply louder than all the others. The first morning I rode with the AirPods switched on, that familiar bird called out, and then suddenly, dozens of others answered from every direction. I grabbed the handlebars as the world erupted around me, finally understanding why my brain had felt like it was inside that pachinko machine. The bird had not been singing alone; it had merely been the only one loud enough for me to hear. As I steadied myself and rode on, the countryside seemed to come alive. Sounds emerged from every direction. Birds I hadn’t heard in years filled the air. The world was suddenly far louder than I remembered.

When I stopped the bicycle and removed the AirPods, much of the chorus vanished. The birds were still there. Only my ability to hear them had changed.

That realization stayed with me. For twenty years I had thought of hearing loss primarily in terms of what it had taken away. What I had never anticipated was the pleasure of rediscovering things I had forgotten were there.

On 8/14/2026 at 9:03 AM, scubascuba3 said:

Have a look on AliExpress, loads on there

Little late to the party but... This past year I tried 8 different "Hearing aids" sold on Lazada for prices ranging from B200 to B2300.

Most of the under 1000 baht models are basically sound amplifiers only and do not have any meaningful filtering of background noise. I found these types, often single ear were somewhat helpful in a quiet room or environment for a conversation or watching TV. The sound quality is rather tinny and they can get pretty uncomfortable after an hour or so of wear.

B1000 to B2300 were all behind the ear with a wired earpiece. The cheapest were a single unit, one earpiece only. All came with a variety of various sized "ear-domes", the silicone earpiece. These turned out to be very important as having a properly fitting and sealing earpiece makes a huge difference in sound quality and comfort. An improperly sealing earpiece can cause sharp "feedback" noises that are very unpleasant. Finding the right fit is a matter of trial and error.

These units all had some degree of background noise cancellation. Most just to certain frequencies at all times and made no real time adjustments. Testing them in fairly noisy places like restaurants, sitting across from another person showed some better than others an isolating the speakers voice while dampening background. Basically the cheaper ones were less successful, the B2000 set was the most effective but none reduced background dramatically. Clinking noises like glasses and tableware came through sharply. The amplified sound isn't natural, again a bit tinny and boxy. Wearing any of them for more than 2 hours was uncomfortable. I found I could wear the better ones situationally but not generally. The best overall of the Lazada purchases were "BlueDot" (The best) and "Powertone"

At the same time I was testing the local units, I ordered a pair of "Elehear Beyond" hearing aids in the US and had them shipped to a friend there who delivered them to me in Thailand when he visited. This set cost US$300.

They are also behind the ear units and were noticeably better in all ways than the cheaper, local products, especially selective noise cancellation in fairly noisy environments. I was actually able to have a reasonable volume conversation without saying "What?" 20 times. Not perfect and again, not comfortable for more than 2 hours at a time but definitely worth the money.

7 minutes ago, dddave said:

Little late to the party but... This past year I tried 8 different "Hearing aids" sold on Lazada for prices ranging from B200 to B2300.

Most of the under 1000 baht models are basically sound amplifiers only and do not have any meaningful filtering of background noise. I found these types, often single ear were somewhat helpful in a quiet room or environment for a conversation or watching TV. The sound quality is rather tinny and they can get pretty uncomfortable after an hour or so of wear.

B1000 to B2300 were all behind the ear with a wired earpiece. The cheapest were a single unit, one earpiece only. All came with a variety of various sized "ear-domes", the silicone earpiece. These turned out to be very important as having a properly fitting and sealing earpiece makes a huge difference in sound quality and comfort. An improperly sealing earpiece can cause sharp "feedback" noises that are very unpleasant. Finding the right fit is a matter of trial and error.

These units all had some degree of background noise cancellation. Most just to certain frequencies at all times and made no real time adjustments. Testing them in fairly noisy places like restaurants, sitting across from another person showed some better than others an isolating the speakers voice while dampening background. Basically the cheaper ones were less successful, the B2000 set was the most effective but none reduced background dramatically. Clinking noises like glasses and tableware came through sharply. The amplified sound isn't natural, again a bit tinny and boxy. Wearing any of them for more than 2 hours was uncomfortable. I found I could wear the better ones situationally but not generally. The best overall of the Lazada purchases were "BlueDot" (The best) and "Powertone"

At the same time I was testing the local units, I ordered a pair of "Elehear Beyond" hearing aids in the US and had them shipped to a friend there who delivered them to me in Thailand when he visited. This set cost US$300.

They are also behind the ear units and were noticeably better in all ways than the cheaper, local products, especially selective noise cancellation in fairly noisy environments. I was actually able to have a reasonable volume conversation without saying "What?" 20 times. Not perfect and again, not comfortable for more than 2 hours at a time but definitely worth the money.

Great information re: the brands on Lazada.

My issues were needing the noise cancelling as well, as the cheap tinny amplifier, as you write, do nothing.
My original aid (no use having two, I am completely deaf on one ear) died aftr about three months here from the humidity.

I purchased so ITC and ITE aids which wee ökay" but the battery prices were horrific.

A rechargeable BTE was all I could get but, geez, the quality was ordianary, like the amplifier types - tinny.
I'll look into your BlueDot and Powertone reccommendations.
Thanks.

16 minutes ago, The Oracle said:

Great information re: the brands on Lazada.

My issues were needing the noise cancelling as well, as the cheap tinny amplifier, as you write, do nothing.
My original aid (no use having two, I am completely deaf on one ear) died aftr about three months here from the humidity.

I purchased so ITC and ITE aids which wee ökay" but the battery prices were horrific.

A rechargeable BTE was all I could get but, geez, the quality was ordianary, like the amplifier types - tinny.
I'll look into your BlueDot and Powertone reccommendations.
Thanks.

I think you will find the "BlueDot" and "Powertone" to be similar in quality to the BTE you mention, maybe a bit better, They both are rechargeable and last 8 hours or more.

I observed that on Lazada/Shopee/AliExp., inexpensive BTE HAs are a commodity, same units, different brand name for widely varying prices.