A 25-year-old male has ringing in his ear. He is a musician. An audiometry test reveals a high-frequency hearing loss in which the threshold for hearing high-frequency sounds is raised by 1000 times. If a patient is unable to hear high-frequency sounds, the damage to the basilar membrane is closest to which of the following?
Stria vascularis
Oval window
Helicotrema
Modiolus
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