Patent ID: 8494196

Claim:
A method for configuring a hearing device by means of an external configuration unit, said hearing device comprising: at least one microphone, at least one A/D-converter, at least one processing unit with a memory, at least one D/A-converter, and at least one receiver, said external configuration unit comprising: at least one programming host, at least one external processing unit, at least one programming interface, and a playing device to play sound recordings, the method comprising the following steps: a) processing at least two sound recordings from the playing device with different parameter settings, wherein the at least two sound recordings are processed at the same time and mixed into one joint signal, b) feeding the processed sound recordings to the receiver of the hearing device via the interface, c) emitting the processed sound recordings through the receiver of the hearing device, d) repeating steps a), b) and c) with varying parameter settings wherein the parameter setting of one of the at least two sound recordings is retained and the parameter setting of the other of the at least two sound recordings is replaced by a new parameter setting until a match between the quality of the signal and the requirements of the user of the hearing device is reached, and e) transmitting the chosen parameter settings to the hearing device and storing them in the memory of the hearing device.