If you are a regular user of personal music playback devices and you suffer with tinnitus, noise cancelling headphones may be a good alternative to standard headphones.  Noise cancelling headphones use special electronic phasing techniques which cancel out ambient environmental noise.

Frequent exposure to loud noises leads to Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL), which is one of the leading causes of tinnitus. There is increasing concern that the prevalence of tinnitus is increasing with the increasing use of MP3 players with long battery lives which allow hours of listening time.

Noise cancelling headphones allow the user to listen to music at a lower volume as they don’t have to compete with environmental noises such as traffic and general hubbub. A reduction in listening volume can prevent the occurrence of tinnitus and at the least reducing worsening the condition if you are already a sufferer.