I hardly hear it on the unmodified part, and even then I have to listen for it. I think part of what's happening now is that phenomenon of, "once you hear it, you can't unhear it." In my personal experience, I can unhear or forget about things with the right kind of effort. You can't not hear it by saying to yourself, "don't think about that sound" just as much as if you said, "don't think about the Empire State Building" if you didn't want to think about it! Maybe that's what you could do. Every time you start to think about that sound, tell yourself, "don't think about the Empire State Building." That kind of thing works for me!