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Reseach I talked about up there was called the heller and bergman experiment, you can download the paper from 1953 on [url=www.tinnitus.org]www.tinnitus.org[/url]
OK its been 5 days now and I still have a high pitched "pinging" tone in my left ear, the one that was facing the speakers. I dont hear it during the day, but notice it when I try to go to sleep.
Thinking I need to go to the Docs?
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That heller & bergman experiment is cited a bit. It also seems to be an experiment of its time. The stats seem rudimentary and in the table of results it looks like there's a difference in what the subjects 'heard' that isn't readily accounted for in the summary results. The conclusion seems fair though "[i]Tinnitus, which is subaudible, may be a physiological phenomenon in an intact auditory apparatus.[/i]". ie Hearing impaired and unimpaired folks hear noises.
A friend of mine is a professional sound engineer and an accomplished guitarist. He was taught at a young age to always wear earplugs or good quality ear monitors. As it is his business he cannot afford to have his hearing deterIorate any more than the ageing process naturally does.
He wears some very expensive custome made ear monitors (£800 I think) which are natural coloured (matched to his skin colour!) and expensive earplugs at other times.
He always says that one severe moment of feedback could wreck his hearing enough to make it difficult to run his business and certainly hold his guitar playing back.
Standing next to the speaker stacks at a gig is stupid or playing in a band without ear protection equally so.
Phil Collins can now barely play the drums now he has such severe hearing damage and Pete Townsend has severe tinnitus which he puts down to an pyrotechnic explosion at a gig that went wrong and years of loud headphone use.
EDIT Phil Collins actually can't play due to hearing loss via a viral infection and a back problem. I'm sure I heard an interview with him that said it was due to loud drums but I may have been mistaken.