Is it me or new audio gear is too perfect and give ear fatigue?

I have not had any ear fatigue with higher frequencies but have had issues with lower frequencies. When adding sub woofers to a system I would get ear pressure and fatigue until I was able to dial in the subs to blend in perfectly with the stand mount speakers and disappear.

in my experience, harsh or bright systems are the result of:

1. noisy power supply

2. noisy networks (for digital)

The solutions are:

1. A mains power conditioner (PSM 156 is a great option) or mains regenerator if affordable.

2. An audiophile network switch (Bonn 8) with Linear Power Supply

3. Isolate the DAC from the network switch with a renderer (Antipodes EX)

4. Reclocking the digital signal (etherRegen)

5. Only use hard wired connections to

the DAC and avoid optical. 

5. Better power cables with after market fuses.

Ghod luck! 

....and clean the speaker cable contacts! 

"in my experience, harsh or bright systems are the result of:

1. noisy power supply

2. noisy networks (for digital)"

? Cut out digital and half your problems.

Again, not trying to offend anyone on new gear, I just feel the specs are near perfect in the tonality.

@webking185 

They aren't. Please reread my initial posts on this thread.

None of all amplifier designs made prior to about 1995 had enough gain bandwidth product to avoid being bright if those amps used feedback, and most of them did. This is simply because the semiconductors needed to get the required gain bandwidth product didn't exist.

During that period we made zero feedback tube amps to get around that problem of listener fatigue because doing so allowed us to control the higher ordered harmonics in such a way that they were inaudible and so our amps were not bright and harsh. We tried using feedback of course but ran into that pesky gain bandwidth product problem which cannot be overcome by any tube design.

I can point you to some well written papers on the topic if you are interested, but its helpful to have some technical understanding to really appreciate what they are saying.