I do have to say, now that I've been doing this for the last month plus, I think I do better over all with no benzos in my diet at all.
For the last 4 years I was kind of on a low level 1x every week or two (tried to keep it sub-dependance level) diet of Alprazolam and then over the last year Clonazepam.
First of all, other than in the beginning where it helped with may panic response, I think they did very little for me. In fact the only value that they really had to me was that it gave me an act to do in the fact of unmaskable, unchangeable, unending tinnitus pain. You know, a sense of agency.
In September I took a benzo break just because and overall I had a less impactful time than normal. Starting about 2 months ago I mostly stopped taking anything, and again on my misery scale it was better than normal. Tinnitus is still miserable so I took one after a 3 week break and sure enough for the next couple days my tinnitus was more 'mobile' again (lots of different shooting shifting sounds), which I find more annoying. I stopped again for a couple weeks and went back to my previous slightly less miserable state. I then took one again and sure enough things were kind of shitty for a couple days afterward.
Anyway, I thought I would share my experience, I have come to believe that the days coming off of benzos kind of give me worse tinnitus and that I had gotten in a cycle of taking a Clonazepam, having heightened tinnitus for the next few days, giving in and taking another dose which led to heightened tinnitus for a few days and so forth for years.