Could be, but for me at least, I don't get tinnitus too often (that I'm consciously aware of†), and I didn't know that this was one of the supposed symptoms of

Could be, but for me at least, I don't get tinnitus too often (that I'm consciously aware of†), and I didn't know that this was one of the supposed symptoms of the alleged "attack" until after I'd played the sound, noticed tinnitus, and written that comment. I genuinely went from no tinnitus to conscious tinnitus after playing the recording. † I get the sense that the brain masks it to an extent, like other background noises, but it comes to the fore when conscious of it, like now as I write this comment. However in this case, it came to the fore, or was brought on, depending how you think of it, as a result of playing the annoying noise. The tinnitus came before the thought of tinnitus, if that makes sense.