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LOUDEST Concert and Tinnitus

This is a two part question.

1. What is the loudest concert (or event) that you have attended?

2. How long have you had tinnitus, is it getting better or worse and how are you dealing with it?

Personally, the loudest concert was UB40 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver. Loudest event was drag racing at SIR (Seattle International Raceway) which was like sticking your head in a jet engine.

Regarding tinnitus. Over the past year or so I have noticed a constant high pitched "sound" in my ears. Mostly the left ear. At this point I don't actually know if it is constant or whether I just forget about it sometimes. I know use a white noise box when I go to sleep. Otherwise I tend to fixate on the ringing.

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yaddy
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My biggest ear hurt was my left ear after driving a NASCAR car at POCONO when the exhaust pipe was on the drivers side. I have done  this drive two more times with ear protection

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jimrobie
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Chris Stapleton, Great Woods, Xfinity Center.  I had bought great seats as soon as the event was announced.  Covid came and the concert was delayed to 2 years. In years before I had learned about and bought special "musicians ear plugs".  I had them years earlier at the Nissan Center in Nashville, and due to bad acoustics in my seating area, they saved my ears.  In the years between concerts I forgot to bring them.  The lead female in the first warm band was awful and literally Painful to my ears.  I debated trying to get away, but decided by the time I reached a safer distance, she would hopefully be done.  A few months later the ringing started.  

chilli42
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Motley Cru at BC Place this past September.  Every 3 gun competition I have attended/competed. Tinnitus 15 years and keeps getting worse.  Have been following a tinnitus treatment modality (cure?) being developed by the University of Michigan.  It looks very promising in clinical studies … http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/422/eaal3175?rss=1

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psioni
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BTW, the loudest bang recorded was Krakatoa which was said to be defining at about 100 miles away and lead to huge numbers of deaths.

I read that as "the loudest band ever recorded" before I realized what you meant. But still, Krakatoa would be a cool name for a heavy metal band, no?

desktopguy
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Woodstock was very loud. So were two Jimi Hendrix concerts; a number of Jefferson Airplane concerts; Jeff Back. But the loudest, the one that hurt me in the moment and continues to, was Junior Brown at the Turning Point, a tiny cellar club in Piermont, NY. I sat ~11 feet from him. He only used one Fender Reverb Twin, but cranked it like crazy. By then I used earplugs, but forgot to bring them (oh, well). My ears started ringing that night and never stopped.

Not complaining. It’s actually OK. I still can listen to music (sometimes moderately loud for short periods) and hear it/enjoy it.

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