If there's a literal sound, then with sufficiently sensitive microphones it should be possible to triangulate the sound and cauterize the source? Or maybe just glue it so it can't vibrate?
As someone else on the thread hypothesized what seems like the likely explanation to me, is that the tinnitus is always there, but as your hearing degrades your brain adjusts the gain up to maintain equilibrium in a noisy environment but this amplifies the otherwise ambient noise of how your ear works into a noticeable signal.
Certainly plausible, but considering both the apparent low volume and high frequency of tinnitus it should be possible to mechanically damp the tinnitus sound below threshold w/o grossly affecting hearing. In any case it's a straightforward hypothesis to test and I can't imagine there'd be a lack of volunteers.
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If there's a literal sound, then with sufficiently sensitive microphones it should be possible to triangulate the sound and cauterize the source? Or maybe just glue it so it can't vibrate?
As someone else on the thread hypothesized what seems like the likely explanation to me, is that the tinnitus is always there, but as your hearing degrades your brain adjusts the gain up to maintain equilibrium in a noisy environment but this amplifies the otherwise ambient noise of how your ear works into a noticeable signal.
I don’t think cauterization is the answer.
Certainly plausible, but considering both the apparent low volume and high frequency of tinnitus it should be possible to mechanically damp the tinnitus sound below threshold w/o grossly affecting hearing. In any case it's a straightforward hypothesis to test and I can't imagine there'd be a lack of volunteers.