subject: Maskers for Tinnitus - Why Some Are Far More Effective Than Others [print this page] Maskers for Tinnitus - Why Some Are Far More Effective Than Others
Maskers for tinnitus can be an extremely effective way to grant immediate temporary relief for people suffering from tinnitus.
The way they all work is by generating sounds that make your tinnitus symptoms less noticable, but some tinnitus maskers are much more sophisticated and effective than others.
The most primitive and least beneficial tinnitus maskers are simply using a different, louder sound to mask the tinnitus ringing. Even this can be soothing if you are at your wits end from your relentless tinnitus symptoms, but there is a newer type of tinnitus masker that provides much better relief for your ringing ears.
The next generation of tinnitus masking sounds are specially engineered to diffuse the way that the sounds of your tinnitus symptomsgets recognized by the ear. Think of it as generating an "anti-tinnitus" sound.
When this anti-tinnitus sound mixes with the unusual tinnitus sounds that you normally experience, a large part of the both sounds actually cancel each other out and give you something closer to real silence. It's similar to how noise-cancelling head phones work, but we are reducing or canceling the internal noise of your tinnitus symptoms instead of the external sounds of your environment.
This means that these specifically created sounds can dramatically reduce your tinnitus symptoms using a lower volume. There is always some residual sound though, and for that reason, these special "masking sounds" are often joined with other soothing sounds, like rain fall, ocean sounds, or other natural sounds.
Many people that struggle trying to fall asleep because of their tinnitus symptoms have outstanding results using these kinds of maskers because the residual nature sounds tend to be so soothing and they help to further mask any other sounds that may be distracting when trying to get to sleep - even the non-tinnitus ones.
Another exceptional advantage of using these newer tinnitus masking sounds is that you don't need to get an expensive, dedicated hearing-aid like gadget to take advantage of them. You can get the masking sounds extremely inexpensively and then simply download these files to any standard mp3 player and get immediate relief from your tinnitus whenever you need it!
The better providers of these maskers for tinnitus offer a variety of different "anti-tinnitus" base sounds and a variety of nature sounds, as well as a money back guarantee so that you can try out thier tinnitus maskers without risk to see how effective they are on your particular symptoms.
This is very important, since the sounds that people hear as a part of their tinnitus are unique to every person. Since everyone experiences tinnitus in their own particular way, a masking sound that might work extremely well for one person may may not work as well for someone else.
