Tinnitus sufferer: is it the speakers or the 24bits/192kHz

I don’t agree that this is a tube vs ss, or digital vs vinyl issue. My experience has been more speaker related. I’ve had speakers that made my ears mildly hurt and ring at 85db volumes. I agree with noromance that it seems to be an energy issue.

Has more to do with sustained noise. Turn the volume down or have shorter listening sessions. 

Dont go the Dynaudio route. They arent good at low volume listening and they dont excel until the volume is turned up. I also have Tinnitus and was warned by several about the Dyn Characteristics.

I stream Tidal and also play LPs.  On some of the digital (and it is present for me with some of their “Masters” offerings as well as a small number of “CD” songs that sound very good otherwise)), I hear a different kind of ringing than what is the case with the usual hiss of my mild tinnitus....best way I can describe it is that, eons ago, one of my first jobs was as a stocker in a dept. store and I’d encounter much the same high frequency noise I’m hearing now on some of these Tidal songs whenever I was working in certain storage rooms.  It was barely perceptible but enough so that I mentioned it to my boss and he told me it was the (ADT) security system. Anyway, I don’t run into this noise with LPs and it’s not an impediment to my enjoying the digital music but my ears have picked up this difference between these two sources.  Using a tube integrated with JBL L65s, whose tweeter can tend toward “tinnitus unfriendly”...

really depends on where your tinnitus is - mine is like 8khz. i've always been bothered by metal tweets even before it happened (an ear infection, not even rock concerts sigh). loud music does aggravate it afterwards, but i regularly listen to my YGs in the 90s on a friday night without worry. i'd say alcohol and caffeine are bigger contributors.

said another way, i wouldn't resort to sleepy speakers with tubes as a solution. i think an efficient speaker makes sense.