Thank you onepoorguy. This is completely new to me and very interesting. I did not know that we had dedicated hearing nerve infrastructure to respond to loud sounds, which are completely separate to the hearing apparatus for quiet sounds. When it is mentioned, as so many things, it then seems as common sense, but prior to hearing this simply idea it slipped past our medical science - all of our testing traditional uses our quiet sound response, and use that as a proxy for one's general hearing condition, but it is in fact a very narrow test where many have perfect hearing with quiet sounds but could have highly damaged hearing for loud sounds (but not traditionally tested). This research find the damage associated with tinnitus is only with the loud sound nerves, so knowing this we can work on solving the problem by repairing damage to the correct nerve area for the loud sounds.

- Manlobbi