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Why are assistive listening systems needed?
Why are hearing loops the preferred assistive listening system?
What hearing aids can receive loop broadcasts?

What do loop systems cost?

Churches and cathedrals
Theaters, courts, and
auditoriums
Drive through stations,
ticket windows
Airports, train stations
Home TV rooms
Future venues: Offices, cars, phone enhancements

 

 

 

 


How can I find hearing loop vendors or installers in the USA?
(U.K. visitors may wish to visit the RNID shop.)

Note: hearingloop.org is a nonprofit, informational resource. It has nothing to sell. It has no financial interest in any loop system or vendor. And it does not offer evaluations and recommendations among the competing products below.

American companies whose business focus is loop products and services include:

AssistiveAudio
Contacta, Inc.
LoopAmerica
Oval Window Audio
Pure Direct Sound
Wireless Hearing Solutions

Prominent equipment manufacturers include:

Ampetronic, a British company whose products are in use worldwide, with marketing in the USA by Assistive Audio.

Bo Edin, a Swedish loop manufacturer of Univox products for home (including a simple chair pad system) and institutions, via Pure Direct Sound and other vendors, including the Center for Hearing Loss Help and TecEar.

Contacta Inc., an American company manufacturing a line of loop products, including a new home TV listening unit, as a joint venture with Britain's Contacta Ltd. In the Midwest, Contacta products are sold, with engineering support, by Hearing Loop Systems.

Echo@MegaLoop, a British product distributed in the USA by HARC.

LoopAmerica, an American manufacturer, which has developed large area digital based loop drivers. LoopAmerica products are available through Premovation AV Systems, which has designed and installed hundreds of hearing loops in Michigan and elsewhere.

Oval Window Audio, a longtime American manufacturer of a full line of loop equipment. In the Northwest, Oval Window products are sold and installed by Audio Loop Solutions, Inc.

Phonic Ear, a Danish company with distribution in the USA by Wireless Hearing Solutions, largely via hearing professionals.

Vivid Acoustics, a British manufacturer of the portable and countertop Soundshuttle and the portable Clipboard, distributed in the USA by Pure Direct Sound and others.

For catalogs and stores that sell other assistive listening devices, including phones, personal listening systems, and TV headsets, click here.