Recommendations for the best headphones with equalization after severe acoustic injury

Can you give more specifics under which topic/headline your tinnitus response can be found? Not easy to do without more info and I’d love to read it as I have a band mate who’s suffering from pretty severe tinnitus. Thanks!

I’ll just also add, I have some tinnitus and did some research and this seems to help and only costs $5/month so I’d think is well worth a try.  FWIW…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006OI33QU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I hate to say start with a google search, but it's a starting point for tinnitus and hearing loss. Reliable sites online for me for hearing info would include mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, NIH, and original published articles in reviewable journals. Best to avoid anything that is an ad or sounds to good to be true. I tried Magnesium, Zinc, CVS inner ear plus - 6-8 weeks and no help. Some hearing aides help with tinnitus. **My best suggestion is see a good ENT specialist and a couple audiologists for their opinions after taking a hearing test**. Problem is hearing loss and tinnitus often come from the death of hair cells in the cochlea, and so the signals of hearing cannot be passed to the otic nerve and to the brain. In essence, hearing loss and tinnitus are very complex issues with limited treatments. I did find that listening to music or playing piano for 20 minutes daily helped to retrain my brain to interpret some lost signals. I even tried high end headphone listening, but I prefer speakers, and the headphone experience did not work well enough for me. You might try headphones though, but be careful of listening at low-mid volumes only. I have not tried counseling, but that is another avenue. Each person's experience is unique. I hope this helps you and your friend.

First, I’m SO SORRY to for your hearing loss as a fellow audiophile.  If I was in your situation I’d ramp up a good headphone system with an equalizer.  As someone who has some experience with headphones, I’d recommend Hifiman HE1000SE open-back planar headphones, a Quicksilver tubed headphone amp, and a Schiit Loki Max equalizer.  What I like about the Loki, in addition to its quality, is that it has a remote so you can easily adjust specific frequencies on the fly to meet your individual hearing needs from song to song.  Just one suggestion FWIW, and best of luck in finding a workable solution. 

Thanks for your excellent recommendations! I did try dCS LINA headphone amp with a few high-end cans and it had promise. I ultimately purchased Naim Uniti phone amp and Meze Elite cans, but even with equalization the sound was too much "inside my head". The Roon equalization is lifesaving, very versatile, has a remote app, but i still needed to equalize vinyl and cd playing. The Trinnov Amethyst has excellent versatility and room correction (that's more for my friends). Thus, most things can be made "flat", and I still enjoy imaging and such. The timber of some instruments and choral pieces is distorted by my ears - nothing helps that. Still, live and reproduced music is quite enjoyable - just not audiophile quality - and I can live with that!

*While I'm at it I will highly recommend a couple recordings that are superb: Truro Cathedral Chorus performing Dobrina Tabakova's  "Of a Rose We Sing" is a gorgeous choral recording with a foundation of organ (divine!), and an album named Postcards which includes "Pueri Hebraeorum" (beautiful cathedral space filled with 2 men's choruses, one in front of the other, echoing the verses). They are among the best recordings!

Thank you for the recommendations!  I’ll check them out.