Ears hurt when listening after changing speakers

Hard to pin down as many have posted.  Since your ROOM is the most important element of any listening situation, maybe get it measured for frequency response vs all those speakers.  Maggies typically do not cause any listening fatigue unless you are using poor electronics, which it does not seem you are, so that is what I would suggest to any customer.

Also, I would wonder why they switched out of Maggies.  Maybe bigger Maggies or a subwoofer or two if you are missing the pounding bass from either modern or orchestral music?  Just a thought.  Seems like you have a good dealer, so keep at it and you will figure it out. 

Personally, I see little gain in ANY variable from switching out of Maggies, but that is just me, I guess--and the other people who keep them forever like I do.  Just can' find anything better IN MY ROOM, of course!

Cheers!

Thanks to all for your suggestions and thoughts.  For nkonor I am so sorry to hear of your situation. Some of you had questions for me so will try to answer.  

- I had a Pass Labs amp (was a typo in my earlier description)
- I do love the Aviors even with this issue. There are revealing, I can hear each instrument, female vocals are so inviting, and basically the music is more exciting 
- the VTL did help

Distortion is painful?

Update: Today is day 7 of using steriod ear drops, Itching has completely stopped and Hearing is significantly improved ! I am so grateful that the one last enjoyment in life is not being taken from me. For those with hearing problems, I suggest finding an Ear Specialist. Your primary care or others are not Ear Specialist. Worth finding a good one.

Thanks @ erik_squires, @mapman and @lourdes for the thoughts. erik, as you, I have long been a proponent of room treatment and use ASC tube traps, GIK, Auralex, and Vicoustic diffusers. Question for erik, I have treated all four walls and corners. I am thinking that the Vicoustic multifusers on the ceiling might be the final tweak needed. Any thoughts?  mapman, the Rockport dealer did check the adjustments on the MIT Oracle cables and turned down the articulation on the network boxes and that did help. Any other thoughts are appreciated on other cable changes ?

Since this will be my final system, I am doing an all out assault. When I switched from Spectral to Pass Lab, I had the Spectral 30SV for 1 week of absolute amazing preamp and sound before mayhem jumped into the mix. My mind will not let go of the Spectral 30SV linestage. I think that I would like to try it with the Pass XA 160.8s that I now have. Any of you technical guys see any issues with pairing the Spectral pre with the Pass amps ?

Appreciate everyones thoughts and help.

Best to All on this Journey

Nkonor 9-1-2019
Any of you technical guys see any issues with pairing the Spectral pre with the Pass amps ?

First, let me add my sincere best wishes to the thoughts others have expressed about the challenges you are facing.

After looking at the specs and descriptions of the Spectral 30SV, and being familiar with the Pass XA amps, I don’t see any technical concerns that pairing would raise. Also, see the writeup on Spectral near the bottom of this page:

http://www.goodwinshighend.com/amp.htm

As you’ll see, the note therein begins with a statement that:

Whereas other Spectral Audio components (i.e. their preamplifiers and digital source components) may be used with any other brand of equipment, Spectral mandates that their non-Universal amplifiers be driven by a Spectral preamplifier to ensure reliable operation.

(My thanks to member @David_Ten for calling attention to this writeup in another recent thread).

It is possible, of course, that the ultra-wide bandwidth of the 30SV could result in RF energy being introduced into the Pass amp that might adversely affect the amp’s sonics to some degree. That would depend in part on the source components, and perhaps also on the RFI environment at your location. But if the combination sounds good in your particular setup it is good :-)

Lourdes 8-31-2019
I do love the Aviors even with this issue. There are revealing, I can hear each instrument, female vocals are so inviting, and basically the music is more exciting.

The reason I raised the possibility in my earlier post that the issue might be due to the Aviors having greater frequency extension in the ultrasonic region than the previous speakers (which they do) is that you like the sonics the Aviors are providing. Which suggests the possibility that high volume levels are causing your ears to hurt as a result of frequencies that are too high to be directly perceivable. Not sure what to suggest to test that hypothesis, though. As one of the others suggested earlier try pointing them straight ahead if they are presently toed in. Or perhaps as an experiment temporarily point them a bit toward the side-walls, away from the listening position, which at the listening position should result in high frequencies being attenuated more than low and mid-range frequencies.  Although I realize that the weight of the speakers will likely make those experiments problematical. 

Regards,
-- Al