Jabra Enhance Select 700 Review: Premium OTC Hearing Aid Tested 2026

What the Jabra Enhance Select 700 Is

The Select 700 is the top model in the Jabra Enhance Select family. It is a receiver-in-canal (RIC) aid, meaning a small case sits behind your ear and a thin wire delivers sound to a speaker inside your ear canal. The case holds the microphones, the processor, and the rechargeable battery. The wire and the dome inside your ear are replaceable.

Jabra Enhance is the direct-to-consumer brand from GN Group, the parent company of ReSound, one of the largest prescription hearing aid makers in the world. The Select 700 shares hardware lineage with the ReSound ONE platform but ships through the OTC channel under the rules the FDA set in its 2022 final rule on over-the-counter hearing aids.

The 700 is built for adults with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss who want a premium aid without the $4,000 to $7,000 audiologist fitting cost of a prescription device. For background on that category, read our best OTC hearing aids guide and our full OTC vs prescription comparison. The wider Jabra family also has the Select 500 and the Select 300. See our full Jabra Enhance brand review for how all three fit together.

Select 700 Specs at a Glance

Pricing and specs current as of May 2026 on jabraenhance.com. Always check the current Jabra spec sheet before you order.

Select 700 vs Select 500 vs Select 300

The Select family has three tiers. Same form factor, same app, same 100-day trial. The differences are channel count, noise reduction strength, and price.

What the Select 700 Is Like to Wear

Setup is the easiest part. The Jabra Enhance app guides you through an in-app hearing screen on your phone. It plays a series of tones in each ear at different frequencies. You tap when you hear them. The app builds a hearing profile and pushes the fitting to the aids over Bluetooth. The whole process takes about 15 minutes the first time. You can re-run the screen any time you want, which is useful if your hearing shifts a year or two into ownership.

The box ships with three dome sizes (small, medium, large) and two dome styles (open and closed). Open domes let more outside sound in and feel less plugged. Closed domes give you more bass and more amplification for a moderate loss. Most buyers start with medium open domes and only switch if the fit feels loose or the sound feels thin. Jabra includes the swap kit in the box and a how-to video in the app.

Day one, voices sound a little crisper than you remember. The treble lift is the part most new wearers notice first. Your own chewing and your own footsteps also sound loud for a few days. That fades. By day three your brain has adjusted and the sound goes from new to normal. By day seven you stop noticing the aids on your ears at all. By day fourteen you forget you are wearing them, then panic when you reach up and feel them gone before bed.

In a quiet living room the 700 is excellent. Voices are clear. TV dialog stops feeling muddy. You can drop the TV volume by 5 to 8 points and still follow every line. In a busy restaurant the 16-channel processor and the AI noise filter do real work. Background clatter drops to the back of the mix and the person across the table stays in the front. That is the gap between the 700 and the 500. The 500 handles restaurants too, but you notice more of the room. With the 700 the room fades.

Streaming a call over Bluetooth is clean on both iPhone and Android. The caller hears the aid microphones, so your voice carries through cleanly without a headset. Streaming music is fine for podcasts and YouTube. For a dedicated music session most people still prefer a pair of true wireless earbuds. The Select 700 is a hearing aid first.

One annoyance: wax guards. The small white filter at the tip of the speaker wire collects ear wax. You swap it every two to four weeks. Jabra ships a year of replacement guards in the box. If you run out, a 90-day refill is around $20. Domes themselves last a couple of months before they harden and need swapping too. Budget about $60 a year in consumables once the included supply is gone.

Inside the Jabra Enhance App

The app is where the Select 700 goes from a good aid to a smart one. After the initial hearing screen, the home screen shows your battery level for each aid and a master volume slider. Four listening programs sit a tap below: All-Around, Restaurant, Outdoor, and Music. All-Around is the daily default. Restaurant tightens the directional microphone in front of you and ramps the noise filter. Outdoor opens the sound field so you hear traffic and bikes. Music flattens the processing so the mix is less colored.

A bass and treble slider lets you fine-tune the master sound to taste. Most users push treble down one notch after the first week to take the edge off sibilance on the letter S. There is also a "find my hearing aids" feature that flashes the last known location on a map, which is useful when you take them out at the gym and forget which bag they are in.

The most underrated feature is remote care. From the app you book a video or phone appointment with a licensed Jabra audiologist. They can push a new fitting profile to your aids over Bluetooth while you are on the call. You get three years of these appointments included with the purchase. Most buyers use this twice in the first year and once a year after that. It is the closest the OTC channel gets to the in-person audiologist relationship.

How to Pay With HSA, FSA, or Insurance

Hearing aids are an IRS-qualified medical expense under publication 502, so HSA and FSA cards work at checkout on jabraenhance.com. Enter the card the same way you would a credit card. If your card does not have a Visa or Mastercard logo, place the order with a regular card, then upload the Jabra invoice to your HSA or FSA portal for reimbursement.

Most private health insurance plans do not cover OTC aids directly. Some employer wellness benefits and union plans do, and a growing number of Medicare Advantage plans now offer a partial hearing aid allowance. Call your plan and ask for the out-of-network hearing aid benefit. If they reimburse, Jabra will email a superbill on request.

If you finance, Jabra offers payment plans through Affirm. Three-, six-, and twelve-month plans are typical. A twelve-month plan at 0 percent APR splits the $1,995 pair into twelve payments of about $166. Approval is a soft credit check and does not impact your score.

Is Your Hearing Loss in the Select 700 Range?

The FDA OTC rule limits Select 700 to perceived mild to moderate loss. In audiogram numbers, that is roughly 25 dB HL to 60 dB HL across the speech frequencies (500 Hz to 4,000 Hz). If you have a recent audiogram, look at the pure tone average for each ear. The table below maps the levels to what you typically hear in daily life.

If you do not have a recent audiogram, the Jabra app screen will flag whether your loss looks like it falls inside the OTC range. For a more formal number, many big-box retailers run a free screening, and the CDC recommends a baseline test every decade for adults under 50 and every three years after.

How the 700's Noise Reduction Actually Works

The Select 700 uses two microphones on each aid (front and rear) plus a directional algorithm to figure out where speech is coming from. When the algorithm detects a stable speaker in front of you, it tightens the listening cone toward that direction and turns down sound coming from the sides and back. The 16-channel processor splits the incoming sound into frequency bands and applies gain and noise reduction independently to each band. More channels means finer control, which is why the 700 outperforms the 8-channel Select 300 in loud rooms.

The AI noise filter is the part Jabra markets the hardest. In practice, it is a trained model that recognizes the difference between speech and background sounds (clatter, road noise, HVAC, music). It pushes the gain on speech and pulls it back on the background. The model is on-device, so there is no cloud processing delay. The trade-off is that very soft speech in a loud room can get pulled back too, which is why the Restaurant program in the app exists. Switch to it manually before you sit down and the algorithm biases more aggressively toward the voice in front of you.

Wind noise is the other failure mode for any RIC aid. The 700 includes a wind detector that flips a low-cut filter on when air pressure on the microphones spikes. It works well on a breezy walk. In a 20 mph wind on a beach it still struggles. That is a hardware limit, not a Jabra-specific weakness.

Pros and Cons

The First 100 Days: Adjustment Timeline

The 100-day trial is not a marketing number. It is roughly the time the brain needs to fully adapt to amplified sound. Plan to wear the aids most of the day, every day, across the full window. Here is what the typical week-by-week experience looks like, drawn from buyer reports on the Jabra forum and our own testing.

• Day 1 to 3: Sound feels bright. Your own voice sounds boomy. Wear the aids 4 to 6 hours a day to start. Build up.
• Day 4 to 7: Brightness fades. Voices feel normal. Try TV at a lower volume than you remember.
• Day 8 to 14: Test a noisy restaurant. Switch to the Restaurant program in the app. Take note of where the 700 helps and where it does not.
• Day 15 to 30: Book your first remote check-in with the Jabra audiologist. Tell them what worked and what did not. They push a refined fitting to your aids on the call.
• Day 31 to 60: Run a music test. Try outdoor walking. Test a group meeting or a family dinner. By day 60 you have a clear picture of whether the 700 earns the price.
• Day 61 to 100: Decide. If the 700 is right, keep them and the warranty starts. If not, return them through the prepaid label inside the box for a full refund minus the original shipping. Most buyers keep the 700. About 1 in 5 send them back, usually because their loss turned out to be outside the OTC range or because the RIC fit was wrong for their ear shape.

Shipping, Unboxing, and What Is in the Box

Orders ship free from Jabra Enhance in the US. Most orders arrive in 2 to 4 business days via FedEx. The box is small, flat, and discrete (no big "hearing aid" label on the outside). Inside the box you get:

• Two Select 700 hearing aids, color-coded red (right) and blue (left)
• Portable charging case with USB-C cable
• Dome assortment: small, medium, large in open and closed styles
• One year of wax guard replacements
• Cleaning brush and dry-aid dehumidifier capsule
• Quick-start guide and prepaid return label
• Card with your remote audiologist booking code (three years of support)

One thing not in the box: a hard travel case. Jabra sells one separately for about $40. If you travel a lot, add it. The charging case is sturdy but not built for a backpack toss.

Who Actually Makes the Select 700

Jabra Enhance is the direct-to-consumer hearing aid brand from GN Group, a Danish company founded in 1869. GN owns ReSound, one of the four largest prescription hearing aid manufacturers in the world (the others are Phonak, Oticon, and Widex). ReSound has been making professional aids since the 1940s.

That lineage matters. The Select 700 is not built by a startup guessing at sound tuning. It uses the same fundamental hardware platform as ReSound's prescription aids, simplified for the OTC channel and self-fit setup. The remote audiologists on the Jabra support side are licensed in the same way prescription dispensing audiologists are. Three years of access to them is a large part of what the $1,995 buys you.

GN Group also makes the Jabra-branded enterprise headsets you may have used on a corporate desk phone. Same Bluetooth and microphone engineering, applied to a hearing aid. The streaming quality on the Select 700 is one of the cleaner experiences in OTC because of that crossover.

When You Should Pick a Different Aid (or See an Audiologist)

The Select 700 is excellent for the population it targets. It is not for everyone. Skip the 700 and book an audiologist visit if any of these apply:

• Your hearing loss is severe or profound, not mild to moderate
• Your hearing loss came on suddenly (see a doctor the same day)
• You have pain, drainage, or pressure in either ear
• Your loss is much worse in one ear than the other
• You hear ringing or roaring that started recently
• You are under 18 years old

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) is clear: OTC aids are for mild to moderate loss only. Sudden loss, one-sided loss, and pain need medical evaluation. Do not let an OTC aid delay a diagnosis that needs treatment.

Select 700 vs Sony CRE-10 vs Eargo 7

Inside the premium OTC bracket, the Select 700 has two real competitors: the Sony CRE-10 at about $1,299 and the Eargo 7 at about $1,650. All three target adults with mild to moderate loss. They differ on form factor and on what kind of buyer they fit.

The Sony CRE-10 is an in-the-ear (ITE) aid. The whole device sits inside your ear, with no behind-the-ear case. It is more discreet than the Select 700. Sound tuning is Sony's strength, so the audio profile feels natural quickly. The downside is that the CRE-10 caps out around 35 dB HL of loss. If your loss is in the moderate range (40 to 60 dB HL), the Select 700 has more amplification headroom and a stronger noise filter.

The Eargo 7 is completely-in-canal (CIC). It sits deep in the ear canal and is nearly invisible in social settings. It is the most discreet OTC aid on the market. The Eargo Sound Adjust+ feature uses your phone microphone to adapt in real time, which is clever. The downside is that CIC insertion takes practice, the battery life per charge is shorter than the Select 700, and the Eargo trial is 45 days, not 100.

Pick the Sony CRE-10 if you want a discreet in-canal fit and your loss is on the lighter side of mild. Pick the Eargo 7 if maximum invisibility matters more than anything else and you will pay for it. Pick the Jabra Enhance Select 700 if you want the longest trial, the most amplification headroom inside OTC, the strongest noise reduction, and the three years of remote audiologist support.

What Buyers Complain About (Honest)

No aid is perfect. The most common buyer complaints about the Select 700, from public reviews and support forum threads:

• The behind-the-ear case is visible. RIC is not a hidden aid. If discretion is your top priority, look at the Eargo 7 or the Sony CRE-10.
• Bluetooth on Android sometimes drops on phone calls until you toggle Bluetooth off and back on. iPhone users do not see this issue as often.
• The app sometimes flags a fitting error if you re-pair after a phone factory reset. Fix: re-run the in-app hearing screen from scratch and the profile rebuilds in 15 minutes.
• Wax guards clog faster on people with cerumen-heavy ear canals. Plan to swap weekly instead of every few weeks if that is you.
• $1,995 is real money. About half of all OTC buyers shop the Select 500 or the Sony CRE-10 instead and many are happy with the trade-off.

Is $1,995 a Fair Price?

A prescription pair of premium hearing aids fitted by an audiologist runs $4,000 to $7,000. The Select 700 ships from the same parent company (GN Group, also the maker of ReSound) at less than half that. You give up the in-person fitting. You keep the remote audiologist support, the warranty, the loss and damage coverage, and the 100-day refund window.

Inside the OTC category, $1,995 is on the premium end. The Sony CRE-10 is $1,299. The Eargo 7 is $1,650. The Lexie B2 Plus is $999. The Jabra Enhance Plus earbud (a different product than the Select 700) is $799. The 700 charges more because the channel count and the noise reduction are stronger than any of those alternatives.

If your daily life is mostly quiet rooms, the $300 jump to the Select 700 from the Select 500 is hard to justify. If your daily life includes loud restaurants, busy offices, family gatherings, or group meetings, the 700 earns the gap. Try the Select 700 risk-free for 100 days so that you can verify the app, the streaming, and the everyday comfort, so that the $1,995 only commits if they actually work for your hearing.

The FDA OTC Hearing Aid Rule (Why You Can Buy This Without a Prescription)

On August 17, 2022, the FDA published its final rule creating an over-the-counter category for hearing aids. The rule lets adults 18 and older with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss buy an aid without a prescription, an audiologist exam, or a fitting appointment. Read the official notice on the FDA press release.

OTC aids still meet FDA safety and performance standards. They are not unregulated gadgets. Jabra Enhance Select devices clear the same agency review path as every other OTC aid in the category. To check the clearance record on any specific medical device, search the FDA 510(k) database by manufacturer (GN Hearing or GN ReSound) or by device name.

Care, Maintenance, and What Wears Out

Hearing aids live in a hostile place. Ears are warm, humid, and waxy. A daily wipe-down with the included cleaning brush and an overnight stay in the dehumidifier capsule keeps the Select 700 in good shape. Avoid water. The 700 is rated IP52, which means it survives sweat and light rain. It does not survive a shower or a swim.

Plan to replace wax guards every two to four weeks, domes every two to three months, and the speaker wires every 12 to 18 months. The speaker wires (called receivers) are the part most likely to fail first. Jabra ships replacements free during the three-year warranty. After year three, a receiver swap is around $90 and you can do it at home in five minutes with the tool that comes in the box.

The aids themselves are designed for a 5 to 7 year service life. After 3 years the warranty ends but the aid keeps working. Most buyers replace after 4 to 5 years, usually because the rechargeable battery starts holding less charge, not because the aid itself fails. Battery replacement through Jabra is around $150 per aid and gives you another full lifecycle. That is a planned cost to keep in the back of your head when you compare the $1,995 sticker price to a $4,000 prescription pair.

Final Recommendation

Buy the Jabra Enhance Select 700 if you have mild to moderate loss, you spend real time in noisy public spaces, you want Bluetooth streaming on iPhone or Android, and you want the longest trial window in the category to make sure the fit and the sound work for your ears.

Pick the Select 500 instead if your daily life is mostly quiet and the extra $300 does not buy you anything. Pick the Sony CRE-10 if you want an in-canal style and you prefer Sony's audio tuning. Pick the Eargo 7 if maximum visual discretion outranks every other factor. See an audiologist if your loss is severe, sudden, one-sided, or paired with pain or dizziness. The 100-day trial is the reason this decision is low-risk. Order the Select 700, wear them for the full window across the listening environments you actually live in, and let the return policy do the work if they are not right for your ears.

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