This is very interesting...I don't have hearing aids yet..20% loss in lft. Ear and about 50-70% loss in rt. Ear....and a lot of tintinius in both ears which makes hearing in noisey backgrounds impossible...but I have discovered by accident something quite neat...when my son has the electric kettle heating up and the radio is too loud the resultant noise is painful.....so he gave a pair of expandable ear plugs that rock guitarists use.....and once they were in place it was amazing....no noise AND NO Tintinitus!!!!Complete Silence...I almost wanted to leave them in(except I would have been totally deaf).. Has anyone else had this happen with earplugs?