Anecdotal but I also had tinnitus after using ANC headphones for a year. Got a hearing test and an MRI scan (to rule out acoustic neuroma) and they found nothin

Anecdotal but I also had tinnitus after using ANC headphones for a year. Got a hearing test and an MRI scan (to rule out acoustic neuroma) and they found nothing. Switched off ANC, tinnitus went away after a few weeks. If you search for ANC-induced tinnitus on forums, there are hundreds of anecdotes. Yet all the (few) studies that I looked at showed ANC to be completely safe and not related to tinnitus. This incident made me consider scientific papers and my interpretation of them a whole notch more critically than before.