I’m not a doctor and your ENT is, you should listen to them and not me. I shouldn’t have said “Prevailing theory”, that gives the wrong impression. Makes it see

I’m not a doctor and your ENT is, you should listen to them and not me. I shouldn’t have said “Prevailing theory”, that gives the wrong impression. Makes it seem like “this is what doctors think” when it’s actually just what I think. I’ll edit that. I did have a semi-automated method for causing those noise jumps, I’ll see if I can find it for you. Well, I looked, and can’t find it. It’s on a lost machine. One should always keep backups, but one rarely does. I do recall the basic structure of my solution, it was a kludge job with an AppleScript that set system volume to a random amount and a shell script that slept a random number of seconds, ran the AppleScript, and ran itself again. I vaguely recall it was hard to find programmatic system-wide equalizer settings but that may be different now, and it may be different in Linux/Windows too. It was not a comfortable experience, it definitely made listening to music into an exercise like running on a treadmill, but subjectively it was very helpful. I do recall getting the idea for this from reading medical literature on hyperacusis, so theoretically there might be some scientific support for it, but I have no citations to give.