Shannon's Journal Discussion

[Shannon]

Shannon my ears are ringing with a very high almost indiscernable high pitch and my hearing is muffled. This happened after I cleaned my ears, I think the sound of me cleaning my ears triggered this and its from subs. Should I quit listening or switch to US only? I lowered the volume a bit a week ago and that seemed to help but I don't think listening to TS at any volume will help, save for levels that would diminish results greatly.

Its weird though because my setup isn't even as loud as the dangerous levels on various websites it was -50 before I lowered it and now its about -55ish.

I only listen to TS when I'm sleeping so usually 8-10 hours and the rest is US (6-10) but I lower the volume slightly for US since its supposed to be technically louder at that frequency or whatever.

Edit: I will add that the muffledness and ringing has faded from cleaning my ears but there has always been an almost indiscernable ringing that I've been dealing with since AM6 and I suspect that I am experiencing slight hearing loss that I hope isn't permanent.

Edit 2: the ringing's better but it feels like there's a hole in my hearing.

If you are using masked subs, there is no possible way to get those effects shy of using them at a hugely obviously overly loud volume.

Ultrasonics may have something to do with tinnitus, but I'm only sure right now that it's correlated to listening at very high volumes that nobody would normally use unless they were crazy.

I would say switch to masked only for a while, if you're still having this problem, and see what happens.