I have recently noticed how I feel discomfort when I listen, in my stereo setup, to recordings where the piano (and to some extent, the contrabass) is put in the centre of the mix of recordings. This goes mainly for jazz recordings (such as Esbjörn Svensson Trio records, some of Avishai Cohen records for example) of which I listen to a great extent. It becomes extremely tiring and gives me a great fatigue with a direct and to some extent continuous whistling sound in my ears even at very low levels. I should say that most of all other kinds of music sounds great and is non-fatiguing.
I haven’t isolated the problem but, what I know is that I don’t experience it when listen to my Grado’s. I expect that there is acoustic issue in my living room in combination with a prolonged otosalpingit that I seem to suffer from. Would it be reasonable to experiment with other speakers than my B&W 685’s that might have a more forgiving tweeter?
First of all I will go and properly see if there is anything that can be done about my ears haha. But as I love to listen to this kind of music, in what directions could I go? I will not be able to do any great acoustic intervention I’m afraid.
I haven’t isolated the problem but, what I know is that I don’t experience it when listen to my Grado’s. I expect that there is acoustic issue in my living room in combination with a prolonged otosalpingit that I seem to suffer from. Would it be reasonable to experiment with other speakers than my B&W 685’s that might have a more forgiving tweeter?
First of all I will go and properly see if there is anything that can be done about my ears haha. But as I love to listen to this kind of music, in what directions could I go? I will not be able to do any great acoustic intervention I’m afraid.