A while back I suddenly lost my hearing on the right side including an extreme case of tinnitus (phantom sound) that sounds like (and as loud as) a circular saw cutting through wood - in my ear. What's really weird is that when the tinnitus is really bad, I also get an increase in pressure sensation on my ear, as if the sound is real, from sound pressure. The sensation of pressure is always there, and has the effect of bringing all sounds really close. I guess it's best desribed as dynamic compression in music, where instruments and vocals all sound closer together with less air or space around them. With good dynamic range, it's easier to distinguish instruments, pick them apart in your mind and focus on each of them individually. I can't do that anymore. When someone is talking to me 1 meter away, and someone else 10 meters away is talking to someone else, I hear them both almost equally loud, as if they are both talking directly in my ear. If there's a buzz or humm from a coffee machine, I can't distinguish voices anymore and people need to either yell, or wait for the machine to go quiet, or I need to leave the area.
I had several hearing tests, all use headphones. They measured pressure too but they find nothing wrong. They did an MRI and it shows nothing wrong.
The hearing test however shows severe loss of hearing in my right ear.
Listening to music on speakers is so bad I've stopped doing that entirely. I feel pressure on my ears from the sound, it's like I've got a fishbowl around my head and the speakers are inside of it. I've been listening to music my entire life and I know what good music is supposed to sound like, I miss the spacial, airy, roomy sound stage of good dynamics. It sounds miserable now. It has completely spoiled what I love most, the one and only hobby I have.
Headphones don't sound oke either. The right side needs a boost and I've been playing with the EQ and PEQ but I can't get it right. I can't set a 4000 Hz to + 90 dB as that would just clip. I don't think the scale on the graph translates 1:1 to the gain field in a PEQ filter. I tried experimenting but it just doesn't want to sound right. It probably never will, but maybe with a little help I can get it better than what I get now.
I have attached an audiogram. Apart from the dutch words that I've translated, I assume a knowledgable person can interpret it correctly.
The lines with the '[' sign on right ear (left graph), is measured against the skull behind the ear. The line with the 'o' sign is measured over the ear. For the left ear (right graph), the 'x' is measured over the ear and '>' against the skull behind the ear. I don't know why that is incomplete, and I also don't know why there are triangles on the right ear graph on the line with the 'o'.
I don't know what 'Mask' means in this context.
Can someone knowledgable who can interpret the audiogram help me setup MC EQ or PEQ (or whatever is the best way to do this) so that I can at least listen to music on my headphones?
Appreciate the help!
Thanks.