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by keketi 3650 days ago
I was in a similar situation a while ago. You should check out this app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hearing-help/id503936600?mt=...

I went to a tinnitus clinic and they did a profile of the tinnitus I hear. Then they configured this app to amplify sounds of those frequencies to mask my tinnitus. When I'm hearing a low buzz the app can almost completely remove it, but it doesn't work quite as well with a high frequencies.

You'll need rubber ear buds that form a tight fit with your ear canal.

Since the app only amplifies sounds it doesn't really do anything in a totally quiet environment. You might want to play pink noise to give your hearing something to work with. I've experimented with different kinds of noise, but this type seems to work the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXtimhT-ff4

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Thanks for tip - I'll ask my doctor about it.

Btw, I've already tried some noise generators for Android and I've observed strange effect - I have ringing only in the left ear so I used only one ear bud with the generator. Then when I turned it off, it induced noise in the other ear. It was like the brain was generating signal to compensate for the external noise in the left ear and when the noise generator was turned off, the spurious signal in the right ear became hearable. Fortunately this effect was only temporal.