Personally I seem to be more bothered by high pitched noises than whites while less so by lower pitched noises. If there's construction going on, it makes me damn near grind my teeth but a loud engine seems mostly imperceptible for me at least. Drove a u-haul box truck for 8 hours with this anglo boomer recently, he said the engine hurt his ears but I barely noticed. On the other side this one time I got a splitting headache from a high pitched whining a shitty classroom tube tv was emitting, the rest of the class was white/asian and didn't notice.