Recommendations for the best headphones with equalization after severe acoustic injury

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.

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!

If anyone is interested, check out my response on 3/10/23 to a question about tinnitus. It summarizes my experience over the past 6 months and may be informative. Classicalpiano

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.

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!

I'll have to look into Roon convolution filters! Thx much!

I can certainly benefit from contacting Mitch and reading his book! I'll look him up next week when my schedule opens. Meanwhile, I experiment with the Roon DSP and Trinnov equalization. Thx for the recommendations, yyzsantabarbara!