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more adjectives to help define 'fatigue' vectors?

My apologies in advance for posting a naive question, and perhaps erroneously posting this in 'speakers' rather than 'amps' as well, but my efforts to find this answer via search are failing me...

I understand, I believe, what 'fatigue' itself means. But I don't understand in the slightest the causes/mechanisms of it in a listening situation.

I assume there must be myriad causes - but can they be grouped or categorized...and explained in something approaching layman terms?

Fatigue induced by speakers, amps, poor power, etc...do they all have something in common that I'm missing?

Or are they all completely different conditions that result in the same general 'fatigue' outcome?

Perhaps fatigued, perhaps not;
Barry
soundgasm

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soundgasm OP
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this thread is helpful, but still confusing to this newbie:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1214317425&read&keyw&zzfatigue
soundgasm OP
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love that Entrope.

...is it generally safe to say that the type of excessive stimulation audiophiles experience, and describe as fatiguing, is generally high frequency information? That the HF portion of the experience is where folks are finding themselves overly exerted?
soundgasm OP
152 posts
 
Bob, that might be what i've got going on, although this question was really academic at the time I posted it...I was reading the word fatigue used here and had no idea what part of the spectrum it came from, if everybody was talking about the same thing, or what it was. I'm less than a year into this. The consensus I'm gleaning is that it's a HF phenomena, some kind of shrillness. I can certainly see how that that kind of energy would be made much worse in a bright reflective room for sure.

bridging these two posts, guess my question would be...can a non-fatiguing system be deployed in a brighter-than-ideal room and have it remain not-fatiguing?
soundgasm OP
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OutSTANding, Duke. Thank you for this and your email as well. I really appreciate your POV and expertise, and your taking the time to explain this at the High School level for me. :-) Will be back in touch via email.
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