Who all has tinnitus?

[s5300]

Not sure if there's ever been a thread like this, apologies if there has.

As the title states - who all here has some form of tinnitus and how do you think it came about? Just curious with the hobby and after seeing @SteveMeade in the DC Audio Port.

Personally, I've had it for as long as I can remember, honestly it doesn't bother me. I don't really know life without it and it's only really noticeable in the dead of night if I'm having trouble getting to sleep already. Definitely not caused by car audio as I wasn't exposed to that until I was ~14. Probably caused by long use of some classic style earbuds. Like, way too loud, 10+ hours a day. Though I also have static vision and  a more-than-average amount of eye-floaters, both things that also just seem like a normal to me. Many people(professionals) seem to think those three things are related. Planning on my first serious purchase being a plane ticket to Seattle for the newest reputable eye surgery whenever I come about the money though. The SMILE that is now out over LASIK seems to be pretty damn solid and it's only going to get better.

But yeah, just curious. 

[DLHgn]

I have a slight ringing of the ears when it's really quiet or if I think about it but I attribute that to my ear problems as a young child. It's not severe enough to cause me any issues for sure and I don't usually notice it unless it's super quiet. 

[SnowDrifter]

Had it since as long as I can remember. I'm sure loud stereos didn't help it but I had that before ever getting into the bass scene

[ShadeTreeMechanic]

I have it and only really notice it at night sometimes when everything is quiet. My right ear is worse because when I was about 10 years old, I went to throw a fire cracker and it blew up about a foot from my ear. I also work in a factory where hearing protection is required, but if I wear ear plugs all day I can feel my right ear getting stuffed up and onetime ended up with an ear infection because of it. I also have a chainsaw collection with over 20 various saws and almost half of them near or over 100cc. I thought about eye surgery but wearing glasses has saved me a few times from flying objects coming from power tools, weedeaters etc. My wife teaches 7th grade and says that the ear bud thing is a big problem with the kids these days too. I have also heard that loud bass is not hard on the ears because the ear is not as sensitive at those frequencies.

[bigmizzle99]

what did u say?  I can t hear you from the ringing in my ears.

[Namosh]

Have had it forever. I ran loud equipment at work and played drums for years before I started wearing hearing protection. Then it was too late. 

[Ahmed Johnson]

Every now and then my left ear just gets muffled, like something is covering it. That has nothing to do with audio. I lived off 115th and morgan in the early 90's and it was like the wild west, lol

[3vil]

Hunting without earpro, metal concerts, and working with air tools has definitely taken it's toll on my hearing. When its quiet or i have earpro on , i can hear the ringing. When there is lots of background noise (like a crowded bar/restaurant) i have problems separating a person talking from the ambient noise. But when I'm out in the woods i hear animals and shit that no one else can pickup, its weird.

[s5300]

30 minutes ago, 3vil said:

Hunting without earpro, metal concerts, and working with air tools has definitely taken it's toll on my hearing. When its quiet or i have earpro on , i can hear the ringing. When there is lots of background noise (like a crowded bar/restaurant) i have problems separating a person talking from the ambient noise. But when I'm out in the woods i hear animals and shit that no one else can pickup, its weird.

Yeah, my hearing is still quite exceptional. I can completely tune out the ringing to hear the most ambient noises from my 600 ohm Beyerdynamics along with shit in real life. Peripheral vision is pretty amazing too. I really think the static makes you more aware to the slightest changes, as odd as that sounds. 

[3vil]

I used to paint coaches is a large production facility. Every year they had a mobile hearing test center come out and check us all out. It had a bunch of small testing bays that were sound proofed, where you'd wear head phones and press a button everytime you heard a test tone. It would play a tone several times, each one being quieter than the last, then it would raise the freq and repeat. I was getting scores that shit all over my other coworkers, but i had the problem that i couldn't sort out sounds when theres a ton of background noise.