Speech Understanding and Sound Localization with a New Nonimplantable Wearing Option for Baha

Table 2

Comparison between the unaided and unaided speech reception thresholds (SRT) in quiet.

			Improvement of SRT in quiet (in dB)
			Softband		SoundArc
			Unilateral	Bilateral	Unilateral	Bilateral
Unaided	vs.	aided	21.7	21.5	19.5	20.3
			(p <.001)	(p <.001)	(p <.001)	(p <.001)
Unilateral	vs.	bilateral	-	0.2	-	-0.8
				(p = .98)		(p = .98)
Softband	vs.	SoundArc	-	-	-2.2	-1.2
					(p = .26)	(p = .98)