Where does fatique come from?

My experience is from the tweeters. I recently did a crossover rebuild to a vintage pair of speaker and used a high quality capacitor and resistors (Duelund). Also upgraded to a soft dome tweeter replacement and the fatigue were gone.

I can listen at normal levels for hours with pleasure.

Might explain why magnepans are easy on the ears-very clean and clear highs?

Shouldn't that be "all of the spelling and grammar mistakes" ?????

"Where does fatique come from?" - she sounds Turkish to me! :)

fatigue, in the neurological sense occurs after one reaches the adaptation level--sorry, you may need to go to the psychology books.

essentially, the rate of firing of neurons decreases to the extent that one's ability to differentiate is severely undermined.

using theaforementioned concept, a consistent and significant sonic signature of any nature, can induce "fatigue", after a period of time, which is listener dependent.

fatigue can occur, as has been suggested when one attempts to focus, i.e., listen critically and analyze, for some period of time.

could the word "fatigue", in the context of this thread, connote displeasure with the sound of a stereo system, rather than enervation ?

if so, any serious imbalance in frequency response can be annoying, even for a short time, without producing neurological fatigue, or a sense of physiologoical fatigue.

"fatigue can occur, as has been suggested when one attempts to focus, i.e., listen critically and analyze, for some period of time.
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So there must be a lot of fatigued audiophiles out there according to this.

I thought listening to music was supposed to be relaxing?