Zepp Clarity Omni, One, Pixie Review: Inactive Hearing Aids

The AIDS battery life is specified for 17 hours of continuous use, and according to Zepp Clarity, the case will be another two weeks (336 hours) with additional capacity. Please note that these AIDS cannot be used to stream media or make calls over Bluetooth connections. They work exclusively in real-world listening.

Like Omni, these AIDS have been reduced in their prices from $1,199 to $699 while I worked on the reviews. They’re still dramatically overpriced for what they’re doing.

Rating: 2/10

Zepp Clarity Pixie

The Zepp Clarity Pixie hearing aid takes design cues from one AIDS, with an ear-in-the-design and weighs just 1.17 grams. However, Pixie AIDS is more customizable and has more omni-aligning features than the peeled ones, so the similarities fork from there.

Pixie Aids supports Zepp Hearing Test. I’ve already taken it for the Omni, so I was able to copy those settings to Pixie AIDS without having to test them again (though I retested them later). The same six program options appear to be available in Pixie and Omni.

Unlike both Omni and The One, Zepp’s app for Pixie offers eight preset environment programs on one tab and another with volume sliders. These range from general to television, restaurants and crowds.

I would like to say there are big differences between these listening modes, but the best thing I can suggest is that the main difference involves the amount of hiss they suffer and high-pitched feedback. Like the Zepp Clarity One Aids, the Pixie Aids are characterized by frequent and random seizures of sharp ears that are impossible to ignore, even at the bare minimum volume. The static layers range from minimal to grid, which makes the listening experience even more unbearable. Otherwise, amplification and clear improvements aren’t bad, and if all that feedback is not present, they might make it into a compelling product. Alas, I couldn’t dial the noise to an acceptable level.

AIDS has no physical controls and depends on the same tap-ear method as above to toggle between up to 3 different environment modes selected in the app (though one is always set as the default mode) ). AIDS cannot be used for streaming via Bluetooth, but it has a phone setting that makes it easier to hear the phone speakers playing without removing AIDS from your ears. Unfortunately, the feedback issue did not allow that for me.

Battery life is specified for 17 hours per charge, which in the case is 187 hours extra. Coincidentally, this case can be billed wirelessly in addition to the USB-C port.

AIDS is physically comfortable enough, but is so acoustically plagued that it makes it almost irrelevant. Like the rest of Zepp’s AIDS, these were reduced at prices from $1,999 to $999 while I was testing. Compare with similar products like very good Sony CRE-C20 AIDS, calculus, at the same price, must be obvious.

Rating: 4/10