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Yep.
The slogan at one of my favorite guitar shops is "We make hearing loss affordable!". It's one of my favorite t shirts.
In my case, the original culprit was skeet shooting with my 12 guage, and not being wise enough to wear ear plugs. I CAN'T wear them whilst hunting, thus every time I get to take a shot, my right ear rings for hours. Amazing the difference between target shot and a 12g slug. The latter is bloody loud, and makes the shotgun kick like an angry mule...
Mine sounds like white noise or pressurised air escaping from something .
Both ears and can hear it obove most levels of sound . Caused (i think) by fire works when I was a child going off at arms length + loud music later on .
On the plus side I think my brain filters it out but as soon as Im reminded I realize how bad my hearing is these days .
I notice how deaf I am mostly at checkouts because the *hissing* sound in my ears mask "S" "T" "CH" vocal sounds obove the din of a busy shop .
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Although he was one that made huge noises but no power (or finesse) to it, just a racket really.
The one that came after sounded loud but not offensively so or dangerous to your lugoles.
One of my comments on another thread
"Be careful, mine started with a cymbal... hit by my drummer which perforated my ear drum > which led to an infection > which wouldn't clear up > which in turn led to erosion of the mastoid bone > which caused the leak (I leak cranial fluid through my nose (better known as CSF leak) )
Long term results... Major tinnitus which I undergo regular therapy at UCH in London, wear hearing aids and masking devices, take gabapentin to block the nerve pain and diazepam to stop me jumping of a cliff on the worse days of my tinnitus. oh and operations to plug the leak to prevent brain damage ...doh !
So next time your drummer says can I hit my crash cymbal really hard right next to your ear. Hit the f...cker ....several times with his bass drum "
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Sometimes have to go to sleep with the radio on to distract me.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
It's pretty mild and isn't the end of the world or anything, but obviously it'd be nicer not to have it, either.
The whine is there whenever I think of it, but having been present from so young (approaching the Hawaii moment...), it doesn't really bother, I even pass most hearing tests!
The big effect is intelligibility in noisy environments - such as pubs. I gather this is due to the fact that one side (left) is slightly worse than the other, as the brain filters quite well directionally, but the work is harder with different gains - I can point at the pin dropping if it's done as a solo!
This is the same for me. I can't recall what caused it but it gets more noticeable as I get older