Recommendations for the best headphones with equalization after severe acoustic injury

I appreciate the kindness of everyone's sentiments, truly. I have consulted ENT and doing all, including resting my ears. I've done no system listening for 12 days (ouch)! - sounds are boxed in and unpleasant in general, and the car system is hard to ID words and some instruments - my brain fills in what is missing sorta. I would even pursue stem cell options if there is some promise. On the audio end, it's that I share regular listening sessions with audiophile friends, and I hope they remain pleasurable for all! Room DSP is a ver good thought, and one friend can help me with trying that out for my 10-12 hours of solo listening weekly. DSP would distort the sound for my friends who listen with me weekly, so I'd have to toggle it off and on. And how would this additional link affect a a pretty clean chain of reproduction? I know, cake and eat situation! I'll explore Roon as the Rossini in Roon-capable; I use it's Mosaic to store a library of titles, but without EQ capabilities. And fuzztone, I think your recommendation deserves my thorough consideration - it sounds like you are onto something fruitful. I will explore all the headphone-style recommendations generously shared here with me. Trouble is, I would merely glance at headphone equipment reviews in TAS, Stereophile, etc and so am woefully ignorant. Who here with hearing loss has addressed their loss through headphone listening, what was your approach to a musically satisfying solution - natural open sound, dynamics, image depth, timber, comfort of wearing headgear, etc. Any dealers who you know to specialize in this area? They deserve support and my consideration. I'm in NE Ohio and easily travel 4 or 5 hours for consultations. I follow this blog for years, don't comment much, but this is a great great of people with thoughtful recommendations on all audio arenas from which I have benefitted. Much respect!

your hearing loss is in the range where speech differentiation occurs, and mist of the midrange and low treble, so if you don’t have a pair yet, you will.  The best ones cost around $6k per pair, last time I checked. 

My hearing aids have 4 eq curves available.  Some of the problems with hearing aids - which are not designed with any attention paid to audio quality! - derive from the severe compression they all employ.  So I switch to an eq curve with no compression, which helps.
 

it’s still somewhat low-quality digital, but it’s the only way you’d be able to hear your own very fine system, much less your friends’, with something like normal hearing.
 

I find headphones to be very isolating, and don’t like them at all.  If you want music listening yo be a social event, hearing aids is the only way to go.  they might help in the car too.

btw, the Lyric is very expensive, but they are still analogue!

A close friend who is my piano technician and tech for the Cleveland Orchestra pointed me toward an audiologist specializing in musicians and the professionals, located in NE Ohio - Heather Malyuk of Soundcheck Audiology. fstein, I'm taking your advice and seeking consultation with her. She apparent can work virtually, but I'll see her in person. I'll keep this forum informed of process and results. Thx everyone! Happy listening.

My hearing loss came about gradually and finally got to the point that I hated to listen to my stereo. The music sounded two dimensional, lacked high frequencies and the bass was muddy. It sounded like I had cotton in my ears. I also have worse hearing in my left ear than my right ear so the soundstage was completely out of whack.

Hearing aids made a huge improvement. My audiologist was able to fine tune them to where the sound was close to the way I remembered it. It wasn't perfect though. The high frequencies lacked sparkle and clarity and there wasn't any improvement in the bass.

I downloaded Equalizer Pro (equalizerpro.com) and the Peace Equalizer GUI. They were very beneficial in fine tuning the sound. One nice feature about Peace is that you can save different leveling adjustments. I have one for my headphones and another one for my speakers. You can also adjust the levels for each speaker, even for speakers in a surround system. It was a big help to center test tones in the center of the soundstage and to make musical instruments and voices appear in their proper location.

It's important to remember that hearing aids aren't intended to reproduce the full spectrum of sound. Their primary task is to make speech more understandable which means they focus on a relatively small band of frequencies. The equalizer helped tremendously to boost the volume in the frequencies that my hearing aids didn't address.

I hope this is beneficial to you. Both Equalizer Pro and Peace are free so there's no cost to give them a try.