Listener fatigue

[Reid Malenfant]

Hmmm, you may have something there Jeff, while I know our upper frequency of hearing tends to decrease, it may well be possible that peaks stand out more

You never know, but at least we got your speaker sorted

[Stratmangler]

Rough sounding tweeters set my tinnitus off something chronic

[Reid Malenfant]

Rough sounding tweeters set my tinnitus off something chronic

You have my sympathy Chris Only ever suffered the once for a couple of days after a particularly earth shaking gig, it wasn't very pleasant

[goraman]

Hmmm, you may have something there Jeff, while I know our upper frequency of hearing tends to decrease, it may well be possible that peaks stand out more

You never know, but at least we got your speaker sorted

Very true, I think AOS members are that exception any way.
I mean people over 40 that are here on the forum are the 2% who still seriously listen to music. That in it's self makes for a lopsided view of the larger majority.

Here's to us odd balls!

[PLINIUS]

I can honestly say Jeff that I listen to more music now than I did as a teenager, does that make me weird?

+1

[gilesw]

I tried my dali zenzor 1's in the same room and they looked to have 2 bands, 6 and 7 khz. I've tried my av amp also and I'm pretty sure the effect is reduced but it's still present. I've sold my naim cd player now so I can't do a pink noise test with that but I've done some more comparisons between my new amp and the denon and I'm definitely not going back. In fact I'm going to buy some components to mod it from this site http://www.hificollective.co.uk/. Resistors from maplin this week and demoing the proacs after that.

[roob]

I used to run a Tact SDA 2175 class D with Snell and Audionote type J and had no fatigue/treble problems.

[gilesw]

Hmm audionote are literally based up the road from me! V tempting to have a go at building one of their kits.

[roob]

Hmm audionote are literally based up the road from me! V tempting to have a go at building one of their kits.

If you have the skills I would go for it, the type E is a loverly sounding speaker.

[icehockeyboy]

Interesting, you using the Quad 22 L2 listed in your profile? They have fabric tweeters. I'm going to have a chat to some of the people on the US forum that have the same amp I'm using and see what they are running with it..

And prior to the Quads, I had the original metal tweetered PMC FB1's, but had them "+'d" for about £350' which just entailed having soft dome tweeters installed to replace the metal ones.

At the time I persuaded myself the new tweeters made an astounding difference, but now a bit older and wiser, I'd say there was a modest improvement, probably not £350 worth!