The Headset Company with a History:
Challenging the status quo since 1967 That’s the year when William
Austin founded Professional Hearing Aid Service. An all-make hearing instrument
repair service. Every day he came face-to-face with the shortcomings of the
hearing devices that were available at that time.
This urgency of customers made Austin passionate about providing the level
of reliable and prompt local service that he felt these people deserved. Right
from the start, he challenged the status quo by introducing the industry’s
first flat fee approach to repair the sets.
This innovation, now an industry standard brought all within the reach of
Austin’s customers. Many of them were living on limited fixed incomes.
"Nobody should ever have to choose between hearing and eating. It takes
both to nourish the whole being”.
In 1971, Austin purchased a small earmold company called Starkey Laboratories
and adopted that name for his company. This acquisition set the stage for
introducing the first Starkey-engineered custom, in-the-ear hearing aid in
1973. With this introduction, Austin was finally in a position to control
the quality of everything that matters most to people with hearing disabilities.
The No-risk Headset Offering
Starkey customers got them all in spades, plus a couple of new ideas that
challenged the status quo:
Both of these innovations were industry firsts. Both are now industry standards.
The no-risk trial has even become a legal requirement in many states.
The rest as they say, is history. William Austin’s passion for helping
people hear better made Starkey Laboratories the world’s most trusted
name in hearing care. In 1978, this passion led to the founding of The Starkey
Hearing Foundation. To date, it has fitted more than 50,000 custom hearing
instruments to people who could not otherwise afford them — and nobody
in the company has fitted more of those people than Austin himself.
Starkey Headsets dates back to 1986, when William Austin challenged the status
quo in another arena that’s all about better hearing: Hands-free telecommunications.
The Hands free Earset Technology
Austin applied his expertise in custom manufacturing to creating world’s
first individually fitted hands-free EarSet. The ultimate in all-day comfort
for executives and telecommunications professionals. Seventeen years later,
it is still the Ultimate Headset.
Today, Starkey Headsets offers a complete line of hands-free telecommunications
solutions and we build everything that Starkey Laboratories has learned about
helping people hear better. Like our parent company, we control the quality
of everything that matters most to our customers:
All delivered through your local Starkey dealer. All backed by two Starkey
innovations that will never go out of date:
When your success depends on how clearly you hear — and are heard —
on the phone, how about challenging your status quo? Check us out before you
need to replace another headset or amplifier.
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