Bernafon hearing aids
Key to Hearing: Your Local Bernafon Expert
Based in Bournemouth, Key to Hearing is your local expert in Bernafon hearing aids, providing a dedicated service for individuals in the Bournemouth, Poole, and Christchurch areas. As an independent provider, we are committed to delivering cutting-edge Bernafon technology with the personalised care you deserve, right in your local community. Our expertise ensures we can help you find the perfect hearing device to suit your unique needs, lifestyle, and preferences.
Bernafon: Discover the Sound of a Smile
Bernafon, a global leader in hearing solutions, operates with a powerful vision: to create a world where everyone can enjoy the richness of sound and live life to the fullest. Their philosophy, encapsulated by "Discover the Sound of a Smile," drives their continuous innovation and commitment to developing hearing aids that not only help you hear, but truly connect you to the moments that matter.
For over 70 years, Bernafon has been at the forefront of audiological research and development, consistently pushing the boundaries of what's possible in hearing technology. From their origins in Switzerland, they have grown into a worldwide presence, dedicated to understanding the diverse needs of people with hearing loss and creating solutions that empower them.
At Key to Hearing, we are proud to partner with Bernafon, bringing their advanced technology directly to you. Our shared commitment to personalised care ensures that you receive the full benefit of Bernafon's innovation, expertly fitted for your unique life, all from the comfort of your own home.
Unlocking Your Bernafon's True Potential: The Essential Role of Expert Care
Modern hearing aids, like those from Bernafon, are incredible pieces of technology designed to transform your listening experience. However, their true potential is only unlocked through expert, personalised care. While it might be tempting to look for the cheapest option online, the performance of your hearing aids—and your ultimate satisfaction—depends profoundly on a comprehensive fitting process by a qualified professional.
Our professional home visit service ensures you receive a thorough assessment, precise fitting, and meticulous verification, including Real Ear Measurement (REM), all tailored to your unique hearing needs and lifestyle. This face-to-face, ongoing support ensures your hearing aids are perfectly optimised, allowing you to experience the full benefits of their advanced features and truly reconnect with the world around you. We bring this premium, professional service directly to you, in the comfort and privacy of your own home.
Get the Most from Your Bernafon Hearing Aids with Award-Winning Professional Care
Supplied and fitted in the comfort of your own home
At Key to Hearing, you benefit from the skills of Keeley Salmon RHAD, an award-winning hearing aid dispenser who has been fitting hearing solutions for over 19 years. Keeley has the expertise to ensure you'll get the most from your Bernafon hearing aids, and we go the extra mile to verify the accuracy of your fitting using Real Ear Measurement (REM). This advanced process ensures your Bernafon hearing aids are precisely programmed to your individual hearing needs. With our convenient home visit service across the Bournemouth area, you won’t even have to leave the comfort of your own home to experience this level of expert care.
If you live in Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, New Milton, or the surrounding area, we can visit you at home to evaluate your hearing and talk you through suitable options from the Bernafon range. Our award-winning hearing aid dispenser, Keeley Salmon, has the skills and experience to help you get the maximum benefit from your new devices.
About Bernafon hearing aids
Experience natural sound, your way
Bernafon, with its Swiss precision and over 75 years of expertise, is dedicated to empowering individuals to hear and communicate better, providing an authentic and natural listening experience. Designed and made in Switzerland, Bernafon hearing aids come in a variety of styles, sizes, and colours, with functionality to suit individual needs, preferences, lifestyles, and budgets. This includes rechargeable hearing aids that offer a full day’s use, including streaming, with a single charge.
Clear and Natural Sound with High Performance Technology
All Bernafon hearing instruments feature their trademark Dynamic Environment Control System™ (DECS), which uses multiple technologies to help you hear as clearly, naturally, and comfortably as possible in any situation. These include:
Dynamic Noise Management™: Carefully reduces noise when necessary to improve speech understanding, while preserving natural environmental sounds.
Dynamic Amplification Control™: Continuously determines the signal-to-noise ratio and directs information to the signal processing for controlled and accurate amplification.
Dynamic Speech Processing™: Ensures appropriate gain and compression for optimised speech comprehension in any dynamic listening environment.
Dynamic Feedback Canceller™: Eliminates disturbing feedback signals within milliseconds before they become audible.
A suite of sophisticated accessories and the Bernafon App will further enhance your listening experience, helping you enjoy conversations and music, and make the most of precious moments with family and friends.
Why Choose Key to Hearing?
It’s our goal to help you hear as well as you possibly can. Keeley, our Registered Hearing Aid Dispenser (RHAD), will visit you at home to test your hearing and general ear health, and discuss your hearing needs. Naturally, we’ll take your lifestyle, cosmetic preferences, and budget into account when discussing your options.
If you’re interested in Bernafon hearing aids, we can arrange a demonstration with no obligation to proceed with our services. However, if you do decide to go ahead, you’ll benefit from our dedicated and personal service, attention to detail, and comprehensive aftercare and follow-up services.
Meet the Bernafon Family
Bernafon Encanta
Your style, your sounds. Meet Bernafon Encanta
It’s your hearing. Let’s make it work for you. Bernafon Encanta’s exceptional sound quality helps you live the life you want to lead so you can enjoy the conversations, details, and moments that make life worth hearing. Encanta represents Bernafon's latest and most advanced hearing aid platform, designed to provide an exceptional and natural sound experience.
The Bernafon Encanta Family:
Your hearing requirements are as individual as you are, encompassing your conversations, phone calls, music, and the connections you make with people and sounds in your environment. Bernafon Encanta helps you live the life you want to lead with exceptional sound quality, and clear options to match your lifestyle and budget. That’s why Bernafon has created a family of hearing aids, perfectly suited to meet your specific needs:
Encanta 100 CONNECT: Ideal for talking with one person and will enrich your connections at home with family and friends.
Encanta 200 GO: Great if you’re out and on the go in noisy listening environments.
Encanta 300 ENGAGE: Will help you fully engage in conversations with a group of people.
Encanta 400 PRO: Has you covered no matter how noisy a situation is or how many people are involved.
Connect with confidence
Talk on the phone, listen to music, stream sound, have a video meeting – all with comfort and ease. Encanta gives you connectivity you can count on.
Your hearing is in your hands with the Bernafon App. The easy-to-use app gives you everything you need to get the most out of your hearing aid. You can control your hearing aids' volume, personalise your sound, get remote counselling, and connect to your favourite devices – all from your smartphone, tablet, or Apple Watch.
A full day of power. In just one hour
Rechargeable Encanta hearing aids come with a new, smaller charger that gives you all-day battery power at home or on the go.
Fast charging anywhere, anytime
Small charger for great portability
Up to 24 hours of battery capacity in a full charge
Designed for 5 years of battery life
Finding Out About Bernafon Encanta For Yourself
Ready to experience the exceptional sound quality of Bernafon Encanta? Our award-winning audiologist, Keeley Salmon, can provide a no-obligation demonstration of these advanced hearing aids in the comfort of your own home. Discover how Encanta can bring clarity and comfort to your daily listening.
Ready to learn more about Bernafon Encanta? Contact us today to find out more.
Bernafon Alpha XT
Designed to mimic animals with exceptional hearing, Bernafon’s revolutionary new hearing aid, the Alpha XT, is the second hearing aid built upon Bernafon’s Hybrid Technology™. Like a hybrid car, it merges two exceptional technologies to provide pure and uncompromised sound – even in exacting listening situations.
The Alpha XT is available in a rechargeable, attractive, and discreet model that sits comfortably and securely behind your ear. A three-hour charge will enable a full day of use that includes streaming and phone calls. Easily recharged with its compact desk charger, you can go about your day with confidence and peace of mind. For charging on the go, there is also a portable charger plus equipped with a power bank. The Alpha XT is available in two styles and also available in non-rechargeable models.
The Bernafon Alpha XT streams sound directly from iOS devices and the latest Android devices. The Bernafon App means you can control your hearing aids conveniently and discreetly with a few taps. A wide range of connectivity accessories are also available to further enhance your listening experience.
Hybrid Technology™ : For best sound without compromise
An industry first, Hybrid Technology™ combines two processing approaches into one hybrid system for improved speech understanding and listening comfort:
Hybrid Noise Management™: Carefully reduces noise when necessary to improve speech understanding, meanwhile preserving natural environmental sounds.
Hybrid Sound Processing™: Works with two processing strategies simultaneously to deliver natural sound in real time.
Hybrid Balancing™: Personalises sound amplification based on your individual preferences.
Hybrid Feedback Canceller™: Eliminates disturbing feedback signals within milliseconds before they become audible.
Bernafon Alpha XT - the perfect choice for musicians and music-lovers
For many people with hearing loss, listening to music can be difficult or dissatisfying. Alpha XT uses cutting-edge technology and signal processing to provide a natural sound experience – letting you immerse yourself in the joy of playing and listening to music once again. With customised settings, multiple streaming capabilities, and a unique Live Music Programme, you can personalise your Alpha XT hearing aids to give you the musical experience you’ve been waiting for.
Finding Out About Bernafon Alpha XT For Yourself
Curious how Bernafon Alpha XT can enhance your hearing? Our award-winning audiologist, Keeley Salmon, can arrange a no-obligation demonstration of these innovative hearing aids in the comfort of your own home. Experience their Hybrid Technology™ and discover a new level of listening comfort and clarity.
Bernafon Alpha
The Bernafon Alpha In-the-ear (ITE) range was developed with a focus on improving speech understanding in challenging situations, helping you keep up with fast-changing environments. With real-time amplification, wireless connectivity, and a broad range of features, your Alpha hearing aids will give you the freedom to live life to the full.
A choice of ITE styles are available, ranging from the discreet In-the-Canal (ITC) options to the almost undetectable Completely-in-the-Canal (CIC) and Invisible-in-the-Canal (IIC) options. For the more visible models, you can choose from a diverse colour palette to match your skin tone as closely as possible. Whichever model you choose, Bernafon Alpha In-the-Ear hearing aids are unobtrusive and won’t interfere with putting on your glasses or picking up the phone.
Finding Out About Bernafon Alpha For Yourself
Interested in a discreet, custom-moulded solution with advanced performance? Our award-winning audiologist, Keeley Salmon, can provide a no-obligation demonstration of Bernafon Alpha In-the-Ear hearing aids in the comfort of your own home. Discover the benefits of a truly personalised fit and clear sound.
Bernafon Leox
As Bernafon’s most powerful hearing aid, Leox is ideal for those who need the most help with their hearing. The Behind-the-Ear (BTE) Super Power and Ultra Power models feature True Environment Processing™ technology, enabling industry-leading amplification and authentic sound quality.
Leox hearing aids are designed for those with severe to profound hearing loss, helping you rediscover the nuances of conversation and keep up with the fast pace of everyday life. Leox is available in stylish red and blue metallic colour options alongside more ‘traditional’ colours.
Finding Out About Bernafon Leox For Yourself
If you or a loved one require powerful amplification, explore the capabilities of Bernafon Leox. Our award-winning audiologist, Keeley Salmon, can provide a no-obligation consultation and demonstration of these super power hearing aids in the comfort of your own home. Understand how Leox can make a significant difference for severe to profound hearing loss.
Sophisticated Connectivity and Control Options
You can enjoy direct-to-ear wireless streaming, take advantage of a range of intermediary accessories, and download the Bernafon App to take charge of your Bernafon hearing aids on the move.
Wireless streaming
Bernafon hearing instruments are all Made for iPhone®, making it easy to connect to your iPhone®, iPad®, or iPod® using powerful 2.4GHz Bluetooth® technology, with no need for an intermediary device. With the use of the SoundClip-A, you can use Bluetooth® to stream directly from other wired and wireless audio devices, and the TV-A adaptor can direct sound from your TV straight to your hearing aids.
Stay in Control: Bernafon Accessories & App
Bernafon App: The Bernafon App offers a wealth of functionality, from simply changing the volume or programme settings on your hearing aids to locating them using the ‘Find my hearing aids’ feature. The app also connects to a variety of other Internet of Things (IoT) devices using the If This, Then That (IFTTT) online service.
RC-A Remote Control: For those with limited dexterity, the RC-A remote control makes it easy to change the volume level of your devices, and is lightweight and discreet to carry around.
SoundClip-A: The SoundClip-A enables hands-free phone calls and helps you focus on the conversation in noisy environments.
Hear What Our Customers Fitted with Bernafon Hearing Technology Have to Say About Our Service
At Key to Hearing, we are incredibly proud of the positive impact we have on our customers’ lives. Here's what one of our customers, who has been fitted with Bernafon hearing technology, has shared about their experience with our dedicated service:
"I contacted Key to Hearing in Bournemouth and Keeley visited me..."
“I was overwhelmed with her expertise. My new Bernafon hearing aids from Key to Hearing have changed my life and I am indebted to them for their passionate commitment, impeccable service and personal attention. They are the ultimate professionals and I sing their praises at every opportunity.”
— John Burrows OBE HonRCM (excerpt from Google review)
Already have Bernafon hearing aids? We can help
If you live in the Bournemouth area and already have Bernafon hearing devices, we can help you in a number of ways. This includes fitting, reprogramming, and servicing your hearing aids, supplying replacement batteries, and arranging for repairs if a fault develops. In addition, we can discuss ways you could get more from your hearing aids, for example, by downloading the Bernafon App or investing in intermediary accessories.
Live in or Around Bournemouth? Book a Home Visit Today.
Key to Hearing is here to help people in Bournemouth and the local area enjoy a better quality of life by improving their hearing. Take your first steps towards tackling your hearing loss and book a hearing evaluation with us today.
Or, if you’d like to find out more about any Bernafon hearing aids, please contact us by email or phone with your questions.