Turtle Beach Corporation (NASDAQ: HEAR), the leading-edge audio technology company, today announced that after nearly two years of development and preparation, its groundbreaking hearing healthcare device – HyperSound Clear™ – has officially launched and is now being sold to consumers through hearing healthcare providers. Turtle Beach began fulfilling initial pre-orders for HyperSound Clear in October, and the Company is now executing a controlled rollout of the product to a small group of hearing healthcare providers through the end of 2015, and will further expand HyperSound Clear availability in early 2016. Additionally, the Company has vastly broadened its network of providers via a new distribution partnership with Elite Hearing, LLC, the largest network of independent hearing healthcare providers in the United States. Elite Hearing is part of Amplifon USA, a subsidiary of Amplifon S.p.A. – the global leader in hearing healthcare for more than 65 years, and currently supports more than 1,600 member locations across the U.S. Through this new partnership, consumers will be able to purchase HyperSound Clear through Elite Hearing’s network of hearing healthcare providers.

“With a completely new type of consumer technology like this, our priority for HyperSound Clear is to bring it into the market at the right pace versus attempting to maximize revenue early-on,” said Rodney Schutt, Senior Vice President and General Manager for the HyperSound business at Turtle Beach Corporation. “We are deliberately introducing HyperSound Clear into the channel slowly, which allows us to better monitor and integrate feedback from our partners and focus on customer satisfaction. Our current production schedule through the end of the year is limited and already fully allocated, and we’re on-track to deliver product to a smaller subset of our hearing healthcare partners first, with the expectation that by the end of Q1 next year we’ll have increased our manufacturing output and the number of hearing healthcare partner locations that carry HyperSound Clear.”

HyperSound^® technology is a fundamentally new approach to sound delivery that generates a highly directional, narrow beam of audio in the air. Similar to how a flashlight directs a beam of light, HyperSound Clear directs a beam of audio to targeted listeners, which has been shown to significantly improve sound clarity and speech intelligibility in individuals with hearing loss¹. HyperSound Clear works in parallel with the audio from the TV or home theater system, so a person with hearing loss will experience immersive, 3D audio when sitting in the HyperSound beam, while everyone else in the room hears audio from the TV speakers or home theater system at a normal volume level. This means that people with hearing loss, along with family members and friends, can once again return to the family room to enjoy the latest home entertainment together. Additionally, HyperSound Clear will be programmed by a hearing healthcare professional to a specific user’s hearing profile to deliver optimal results, and is customizable for up to two individuals.

HyperSound Clear is available for a MSRP of $1,675, and consumers interested in purchasing it should speak with their hearing healthcare provider. Additionally, through its partnership with CaptionCall^® Turtle Beach is offering complimentary white glove installation for a limited time for each HyperSound Clear unit sold in the U.S., where the Company will install and setup the first-of-its-kind directed audio solution for people with hearing loss for the optimal home listening experience. Once purchased, programmed and brought home, patients in the U.S. will be contacted by a member from CaptionCall to schedule the complimentary in-home installation.

Researchers estimate that one in five Americans, and one in three people over age 65, suffer from hearing loss. Impacting over 48 million Americans, hearing loss is the third most common chronic physical condition in the United States. An estimated 360 million people worldwide suffer from some form of hearing loss, and HyperSound Clear offers a new way for people living with hearing loss to once again enjoy home entertainment.

To learn more about HyperSound technology and HyperSound Clear, please visit the official website at http://hypersoundhearing.com.