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I'm far from expert, but I always thought tinnitus was from a loss at a particular frequency, and so the brain is turning up the volume on that frequency straining to try to pick up the noise. I wouldn't think that throwing more noise at it would help, but maybe, making the noise in that particular frequency loud enough, would enable you to hear a little and the brain would turn the volume back down. But then again, cranking the volume up that much sounds like it would be bad for your hearing. Like I said, absolutely not an expert. I have some tinnitus myself.

On a somewhat related note, I've read that some folks that are blind, have something similar (but visual). I guess most folks that can see assume that blind folks live in darkness, but what I read was that some blind folks actually end up living with all sorts of light and bright colors which can actually be very frustrating and bothersome. Like the brain is trying to turn up the volume on any signal that it gets or is creating signals where there are none.