I don't know if it's tinnitus or something else, but I do sometimes have a ringing in my ears.....it comes/goes. My 2 biggest problems is that I have trouble making out a sound when there's a lot of background noise, like someone talking to me in a noisy room, and I have trouble pinpointing the direction of sound..............which especially sucks in the turkey woods because unless a gobble is CLOSE, I struggle really bad to determine the direction it came from. If a bird gobbles a few times in succession, I can usually turn my head a little in between and it helps pinpoint the general direction, but if it's just 1 faint gobble, it's useless.