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Fig. 5.
Benefit of Handymic and Linkit compared to headpiece expressed in dB. Results for all subjects and the mean of the group (N =
13). The average for the Handymic and Linkit equals 8.2 dB (SD = 2.6) and 5.9 dB (SD = 3.9) respectively.
Fig. 6.
Individual SRTs obtained with Handymic (A) and Linkit (B) as a function of the SRTs obtained with the headpiece microphone.
The regression lines show a relatively consistent shift downwards independent of the CI– users performance level in background noise.