Review on Enhanced Home Audio Experience: ZVOX Dialogue Clarifying Sound Bar with Patented Hearing 🔊 Technology and Voice Boost - 30-Day Home Trial - AccuVoice AV157 TV Speaker - Black by Josh Lockhart

AV157 really improves voices. I have an older SB500 with AccuVoice but not 12 adaptations so I did a comparison between the two on an English language TV show where all the actors had varying degrees of English accent. Both speakers improved speech intelligibility almost equally, and there was very little difference between the AV157's 12 settings when AV was set to AccuVoice level 2 or 3. (Speech intelligibility, however, is a personal issue that depends on individual hearing.) The BS500 has a fuller, richer sound because it has 2 small 4-inch base speakers, which the AV157 doesn't have. After using all 12 settings on the AV157 and switching between the two speakers a few times, my wife and I both agreed that the SB500 was just as good in terms of speech intelligibility, but better overall. We both have different hearing losses. She has variable hearing loss more volume issues and I have speech intelligibility. The latest BS500 now has the first 6 AccuVoice controls which are the most important in the AV157. My wife and I also settled on AV157. better than TV speakers, both of which are mid-range devices. Since we are both hearing aid wearers, we cope very well with the problem of speech intelligibility. Ninety percent of the time, the SB500 is good enough. We miss whispered conversations or dialogues spoken with a strong y-accent. And of course we hear more when we are focused and not distracted by other things. A month ago I bought Tozo T6 headphones. They match the Bluetooth on the TV. It took a bit of fiddling to get them working smoothly, but once they were set up and I figured out how to control them, the dialogue on every show was crystal clear. Now that the SB500 doesn't fit, my wife and I each use a T6 in either the left or right ear. We hold the hearing aid in one ear and the sound on the SB500 is on. This allows us to hear each other and provides background noise from the larger speaker. The T6 has a limited volume range. So if someone has severe hearing loss, this may not work. Additionally, our TV has latency (audio delay) control, which was just enough to adjust the audio from the SB500 and stream audio from Bluetooth to the headphones, so there weren't any sync issues. (Even before tuning, the lag wasn't very noticeable.) The headphones cost less than $40. Do not buy other models, only T6. This works best for this application. We don't use them to make phone calls, listen to music in the shower, or exercise with them. Now my wife has a set of headphones that she uses to listen to music from her iPad without hearing aids and the T6 does that well too. We can turn off the SB500 without affecting the headphones if we want to watch TV in peace. I'm considering buying a new SB500, although I don't think we'll see enough difference between the adjustments from A1 to A6 to justify $400. Our current one is 5 years old.