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Music has played an important role in Marcus Zoitl's life since childhood. At the age of 16, the passionate pianist trained as an organ builder.

Nine out of ten MED-EL recipients surveyed said that music sounds pleasant through their cochlear implant*. This is partly down to the design of our cochlear implants, which closely mimic natural [...]

Stefanie from Berlin, Germany, has been a radio host for many years. Her other big passion is traveling. For a year she has used a VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE. In today's guest article Stefanie shares [...]

For many years, Jannette from Germany was ashamed of her hearing loss and withdrew further and further from life. Until she decided to change something and went for cochlear implants. In today's [...]

What do Katy Perry’s “Roar”, The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun”, Wham’s “Last Christmas” and Beethoven’s “Für Elise” have in common? They all made it to a MED-EL Spotify playlist! The MED-EL [...]

Our new AudioStream cover is here, making direct streaming easy for all SONNET and SONNET 2 series users. After setting it up for the first time, all you need to do is slide the AudioStream cover [...]

Heinz and Walter are two amateur musicians from Austria. The two of them don't only share a love for music. They also both use cochlear implants, and thanks to their hearing devices they can [...]

After Ilan from the US experienced painful MRIs with his old cochlear implant, he decided to switch to a MED-EL CI. Read on to find out more about why MRIs are much more comfortable for him now, [...]

René Vergè is a musician and sound engineer from Germany – and he is also a bilateral recipient of MED-EL cochlear implants. He told us about his hearing journey and why, thanks to his cochlear [...]

Kristian Erickson from Alaska has one big passion: studying foreign languages. But his progressive hearing loss made mastering them increasingly difficult – until he got cochlear implants, [...]