Pertinent to so many in the audio industry, there is potential help on the horizon for tinnitus sufferers. A new study has used a combination of wideband noise and electrical stimulus to the tongue to treat tinnitus, with promising possibilities.
Maybe all that battery licking by audio engineers over the years and testing systems with pink noise has actually saved their hearing… I’m hoping researchers will find that listening to Merzbow while licking batteries is the ultimate tinnitus treatment.