David VanHorn wrote:

> What I hear, 24 hours a day, is a tone-ish noise (noise, that sounds
> pretty centered around a tone, but it's very hard to pick out a
> frequency)

  That's the definition.

> Shooting, with ear protection, maybe twice a year (I AM an american
> after all)

  Hard to say...

> I also have what my audiologist calls a "moderate" notch of 60dB (!)
> at about 3kHz

  Notch eh?  I have a 60+dB *step* at 3 kHz in my right ear.  Not a
notch, it's a LPF.
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.