Sonitus Medical is Out of Business (SoundBite)

[leapyrtwins]

I'm not surprised.

My doc's office made the decision to not carry the Sound Byte or offer it to their patients as they didn't feel it was "going" anywhere.

I totally agreed with them.

[kendemario]

I have had a Soundbite system for about 2 years and have found it moderately helpful. Recently my ear piece has stopped transmitting sound to the mouth piece. My audiologist was unable to repair it and has left me with no further ideas as to how to get it repaired. Has anyone had any success in finding a way to get Soundbite components repaired or replaced? I had previously tried a Cross hearing system for SSD but had not liked it and I would like to avoid any system the requires surgical implants.

[sj22]

hi kendemario,

my 10 year old son got SoundBite two years back too and now has "outgrown" the mouth piece. so we are stuck with it !!
But we are all set to try out the TranEar 380, that is designed for ssd. appointment is set for 27th oct. hopefully  it will work for my son... 
 there are couple of options that do not involve surgery - TransEar (one ear piece goes deep in ea canal on bad side) & CROS (two ear pieces,one in each ear)

[arizonajack]

Has anyone had any success in finding a way to get Soundbite components repaired or replaced?

You could try an internet search for Soundbite parts or components and call around to see if the companies with old Soundbite ads still have items on hand that they'd be willing to sell cheap.

Otherwise, I'm afraid you are out of luck with Soundbite.

[arizonajack]

One of our members has some surplus Soundbite stuff for the asking.

See:

http://www.anausa.org/smf/index.php?topic=22520.0;topicseen