Headphone Technology, Transducers, and Fatigue

At the expense of taking this topic even further off topic maybe we can create a topic or merge it, can someone explain to me why say Beyer’s, and Focal headphones seem bright or fatiguing to me say after an hour or in some cases with focal or with the Beyers after 10 minutes or less. Is it the way they are tuned, or the materials used? I say this as the Ananda is considered a bright or a thin sounding headphone to some but it doesn’t sound bright to me at all and I can listen to it for hours yet say the Elegia sounds brighter and thin, or the Elear, Clear, is more fatiguing after say an hour or so and some of the Beyers sound very bright to me? Is it a tonality thing, or a driver thing, or a tuning?

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