My name is Walt Kesler. I am 69, a retired electrical lineman, and I have mild to moderate high-frequency hearing loss in both ears, worse on the left. What I lose first is dialogue. Music is fine. Soft voices are not. For years my answer was the volume button, and my wife Joanne, who has normal hearing, kept asking me to turn it down. Last year I finally tried a different answer: a SIMOLIO wireless TV speaker set beside my recliner. It did not fix my hearing. Nothing will. But it changed how we watch television together, and here are the ten reasons I keep recommending it to friends my age.
If you are reading this, you probably know the feeling. The TV is loud enough for the neighbors, but the actors might as well be mumbling. You have tried closed captions, you have tried sitting closer, you have tried turning it up one more notch. This is the alternative I wish someone had handed me years ago.
Stop turning the TV up to 40 and start hearing the dialogue
A SIMOLIO wireless TV speaker puts the sound twelve feet from your ears, not across the room. See today's price and current reviews on Amazon.
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My TV is 55 inches and my recliner is about twelve feet from the screen. With the TV's own speakers, I was turning the volume to 40 and still leaning forward. The SIMOLIO speaker sits on the side table next to my chair. The dialogue arrives at my ears instead of bouncing around the room. That single change did more for me than any soundbar I tried.
It keeps the volume comfortable for the person next to you
Joanne does not have my hearing loss. At volume 40, the news was too loud for her. With the SIMOLIO speaker, I hear the dialogue clearly at a level she can sit with comfortably. We watch the same program at the same volume, and neither of us is annoyed. That may sound small. If you share a living room, it is not small at all.
It is a speaker, not a hearing aid, and that is exactly the point
I am not an audiologist and I do not play one. A hearing aid is the right answer for many people, and I tell friends to get tested if they have not been. But a TV speaker is a different tool for a different job. It does not go in your ear. It does not need a fitting. You plug it in, pair it, and the TV dialogue is suddenly closer. For mild to moderate loss, that is often enough.
The wireless connection means no tripping hazard across the room
I spent 34 years as a lineman, so I notice trip hazards. A cable stretched across the living room floor from the TV to my chair was not going to happen. The SIMOLIO connects wirelessly to the transmitter at the TV. The speaker itself plugs into an outlet beside the recliner. No wire across the walkway, nothing for Joanne to catch with her foot on the way to the kitchen.
It makes dialogue crisp without making explosions louder
The thing about high-frequency hearing loss is that certain sounds vanish while others stay loud. Action movie booms were never my problem. Voices were. The SIMOLIO speaker is built to clarify speech, and in practice that means the dialogue sits forward in the mix. The westerns I watch have plenty of gunfire, but I no longer miss what the characters say between shots.
Bluetooth means I can send the same sound to my own ears when I need it
Some nights my left ear is worse than others. On those nights I pair my own Bluetooth earbuds to the SIMOLIO and keep the TV volume where Joanne likes it. She hears the TV normally. I hear the same program through the earbuds. It is not a substitute for a real hearing aid, but it is an honest way to get through a bad evening without making the living room uncomfortable for both of us.
Setup took me about ten minutes, and I am not handy with this stuff
I can climb a utility pole, but I do not enjoy fiddling with electronics. The SIMOLIO came with a transmitter that plugs into the TV and a speaker that plugs into the wall. I connected the audio cable, paired the speaker, and it worked the first time. Ten minutes, no phone app, no account, no instructions written in a language I had to squint at.
It is built for the way an older person actually watches TV
I watch the evening news, westerns, and baseball. I sit in the same chair at the same distance every night. The SIMOLIO is not a gadget for people who rearrange their living room weekly. It is a simple speaker with big, readable controls that I can operate without my reading glasses. That sounds like a small thing until you have tried to adjust a soundbar with tiny buttons at arm's length.
It is far cheaper than replacing your TV or adding a receiver
Before I found this route, I priced soundbars and AV receivers and new TVs with better built-in speakers. The SIMOLIO wireless TV speaker costs a fraction of any of those. I am not going to quote today's price because it changes, but the last time I looked it was under what I would have spent on a single dinner out for Joanne and me. For the difference it makes on baseball nights, that is a fair trade.
It gives me back the thing I missed most: following a story with my wife
The real reason I kept turning the volume up was not the news or the baseball. It was that I hated asking Joanne what a character just said. With the SIMOLIO speaker, I follow the plot without leaning forward and without interrupting her. We watch the whole program together, and at the end we talk about it like we used to. That is the reason this speaker is still on my side table a year later.
What I'd Skip
The SIMOLIO wireless TV speaker is not for everyone, and I would be doing you a disservice if I pretended otherwise. If your hearing loss is severe, or if you have not had a hearing test in years, see a professional first. A speaker cannot replace a properly fitted hearing aid. I would also skip it if you almost always watch TV alone and you already hear the built-in speakers well enough. And if you want room-filling surround sound for movies, buy a soundbar instead. This is a tool for one specific job: making dialogue clear for the person sitting near the TV. It does that job well, and it does not pretend to do the others.
The real reason I kept turning the volume up was not the news or the baseball. It was that I hated asking Joanne what a character just said.
If dialogue is what you lose first, this is the cheapest fix I found
The SIMOLIO wireless TV speaker sits beside my recliner a year later, and it still does the job. Check today's price and read the current owner reviews on Amazon.
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