[apinstein]

I had this problem with my AirPods Pro, too. Funny thing though... I have intermittent tinnitus in my left ear, and it took me a few weeks to realize it wasn’t my ears making the noise but rather a problem w the AirPods. I had been switching between noise-cancelling and transparency mode, swapping ears, etc to see if it would go away. It didn’t, so I assumed it wasn’t an audio processing issue. Then one day I realized I hadn’t tested on “off” mode (since you only get to this mode through the UI I had forgotten it even existed). The noise issue went away instantly. Called Apple and they replaced it without hassle.

Still kinda blows me away that this issue sounded so identical to my tinnitus that I literally couldn’t tell the difference.

[zdwolfe]

Wow! I'm in the same boat. I've had tinnitus for a while and at first I thought it was just my ears being weird. It got way worse though (the rattling) and I was able to tell the difference.