My brother from another mother!
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Oh you already live that life- Marcello has to be a lucky guy!
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I love music like Iām sure everyone else on here does, but I find that sometimes I get into a rut where it doesnāt seem like anything sounds good.
Iām thinking that, for me at least, this happens from listening to the same tracks too many times in a row or just listening to music in general too much, which is why Iām calling this āfatigueā.
I was wondering if anyone else on here experiences the same thing and how do you mitigate that?
Ha!
Just buy some new stuff!!
Serioulsy I have felt this experience as wellā¦and sometimes you need to take a few days away from the headphone stuffā¦and go outside and enjoy life!.
Gosh thats an issue right now!! :>(
I have 12+ amps in house and rotate them, and I have found there are certain ones that do really make a difference to meā¦and I force myself to listen to those amps that might be sub-standard in comparison so when I get back to that favorite it makes me smile!! and if it doesnt then maybe that amp might not be a good as you one thought!!
Lately I have one setup in this scenarion of swapping out stuff that consistently makes me smile and is not fatiguingā¦and I can listen for hours and often have a harf time stopping!!
Another thing for me is I have all my CDās ripped as many of us do and I have a random listing of all these in Jriver and go thru this list of thousands of songs, good and mediocre so I never know whats coming up nextā¦to my brain its a totally new sound experience each and every time. If its a so-so song, I move to the nextā¦helps alot for me.
Some folks like to listen to a whole album, thats fine, but to me once doing that I find I remember each song and it becomes fatiguing to meā¦
Alex
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I think turning āShuffleā mode on has helped immensely, especially while driving.
I donāt spend any time trying to think of exactly what I want to listen to. If I donāt like whatās playing, then I just press next track.
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To me, and given my current status quo, fatiguing is the DT770 PRO above 70dB on certain rock/pop songs. Metallicaās Black Album, for instance, itās impossible to hear.
Loudness in general tend to fatigue me quickly as well, after 10-20 mins. I keep turning the volume down and let the brain/ears to adjust. This is what I actually enjoy about the SRH1540. Bass is always there even at lower volumes.
On a separate noteā¦
Found this and now I understand why I felt the HD600 bassier when I used a balanced cable with a FiiO K3 2.5mm jack last weekend.
HD600 is another one that I could spend hours listening without any signs of fatigue. As long as room temperature is under 76F (~24C), and I donāt feel my jaws due the clamping forceā¦ 
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I am probably most fatigued if something around 500-900hz is recessed and if 1.5k ish is too forward. I also donāt like too much around 11-14k.
Iām envying your ears already. 
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Very forward headphones fatiguing for me. Forward vocals, aggressive soundstage without air and confusing imaging. I have no problem with treble. I guess thatās why DT770 250 ohm is one of the least fatiguing cans for me. They have exceptional soundstage and imaging inside the cups, music and vocals not pushed to your ears. Instrument and vocal placement is just perfect. Bass and treble gives all the fun with nice timbre.
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I assume at a low listening level? What kind of genre you listen when wearing these Beyers?
Literally everything 
i know itās cliche but i listen everything and also use headphones for movies and games so v shape helps. And yes generally low/moderate listening levels with occasional crank ups. I like DT770 presentation. Nothing in my face.
Edit: DT 1990 for example extremely fatiguing for me. Itās very forward and aggressive headphone with shiny vocals (thanks to treble peak). Much more claustrophobic and overwhelming headphone.
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Comfort is my biggest complaint on wearing fatigue. Pad sweat in the heat.
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Where do you live? Iām currently living in NH but am from a tropical country. I find impossible to wear any over ear headphone above 82F (room temperature). And thatās for dynamic drivers. 
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Comfort has become more forefront for me as well since I have developed some issues with a headphone of mine. Didnt notice it until I started wearing therm more often and for longer hours. If you have to always fiddle with an uncomfortable headphone issue than you aint really listening and you dont want to listen.
I think I may have remedied it significantly but I need to take a break from cans for a few days to kind of reset the hypersensitivity I developed and see if I corrected it enough. Itās the main driving force towards my looking at a getting an IEM now.
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SoCal. It was around 100F here today. About 80F at 10:55pm.
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I sit in an airconditioned room and dont have the issue of sweating pads, the latest headphones are 718 gms, heavy by headphone meansā¦HEDDās.
I feel the heft but have learned to center them on my head to get the weight on my noggin vs putting stress on my earsā¦
The biggest fatigue thing really is crappy source material with very good high resolving cansā¦the compressed sound makes lisetening a bear at times.
I have gone thru my 6000+ source material and created a dem playlist that I occasionlay play to remind myself of the good stuff out there and what the gear is capable of.
Alex
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I used to work for a small local audio/video chain called Sound Track back in 1999/2000-ish. One of the things they did was conduct week long training courses for employees on audio and video. One of the instructors was a major audiophile.
Before the class started, he set up top end Kef Reference 7 towers, McIntosh amps, etcā¦ put up moveable room treatments, bass traps, toed in the speakers, tested the whole thing with a db meter to ensure it sounded pristine and imaged like none other. (Picture a large sized conference room, maybe 40ā square.)
The first day he put everyone in front of the setup and played the crappiest encoded mp3s of audiophile tracks, but he didnāt tell anyone. Everyone was really impressed. Oh, what sweet tone. Its so detailed. Its like being there. Heh.
Then he switched to a SACD source and watched jaws hit the floor. Iām sure you can imagine the improvements.
He then went back and forth between the two for comparison. After that, he told us if we ever played MP3s when we demoed gear for customers, heād fire us on the spot. That was my first real introduction to great audio.
I leaned 2 things: You canāt un-hear the difference, and source matters. Yup.
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This is what I try to explain to people when they ask me why I spend $$ on audio gear, because Ive heard the difference and going back is unpleasant. Wife just asked me why I want higher end IEMs when I just bought run of the mill bluetooth ones (which are essentially YT and podcast only) a few months agoā¦
Canāt tell you many songs I use to love growing up that are no longer something I want to listen to.
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TODAY at 1:30pmā¦It was actually a little hotter later in the afternoonā¦106F
I think summer is here. Weāve been lucky so far that it hasnāt been too hot.
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15% humidity. Looks like our winter here.
But 78F is very OK for indoor headphone usage, right? At least for me.
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