[HowTheStoryEnds]

Isn't tinnitus what you might get from eardamage from excessive sustained volume and such? Wouldn't ANC headphones be the counter to that?

[RugnirViking]

I've heard some stories that specifically active noise cancelling can cause it, especially when it's misconfigured so it's not perfectly in sync with sounds. I think I heard about it on a post here on hacker news a few months back?

[HowTheStoryEnds]

Damn, hadn't heard of that. I use ANC headphones a lot.