I transitioned into musical performance as a career about 5 years ago, and due to my technical background I was able to grow a reputation as a pretty damn good

I transitioned into musical performance as a career about 5 years ago, and due to my technical background I was able to grow a reputation as a pretty damn good sound engineer. Part of this can simply be explained by having the experience necessary to learn all the tools used to resolve various issues, such as a heightened sense of troubleshooting technique gained from work in IT. But a large portion of what contributed toward my success and in my opinion, the success of many sound engineers, is a shared experience of annoyance toward imbalanced frequencies, and the importance of a proper mixture in order to maintain the level of comfort needed to enjoy the act. This of course was truly tested with an avante-gard (excuse my misspelling) jazz set that was extremely hard to enjoy the unseasoned listener, and in my opinion, was only enjoyable to those who had burned out the necessary parts of their ear drum that would otherwise show their discomfort. I would love to see studies on share misphonic experiences with certain frequencies and balancing of tones played in harmony, and how that would affect long term hearing (since I have a personal theory that bad mixes are the cause of tinnitus, not exclusively loud noises)