Ears hurt when listening after changing speakers

It might sound silly to someone, but I have a reason to believe that I developed my tinnitus (ringing in the ear) shortly after I purchased my B&W 685 a few years ago.
I found that they had dip at around 3 kHz and I was listening to them with too much attention. Closer, fartehr away, toed-in, quite revealing `and strangely accentuating beats, cracking sounds, choire singing I used to listen, despite at low volume, too close trying to understand if that is comming from the tweeter, the midbass or the port.

After a while and night of sore throat and nose I woke up with a ringing in my ear that never stopped. The audiogram shows -10 db sensitivity drop at ~3kHz. My ears were trying to compensate for the dip probably.
It’s just my theory, I might be dead wrong, but I’m suspicious as my previous speakers used to have much more prominent upper mids. I used to have them for 30 years :)

Anyone else noticed something similar?

Not hearing what source components you are using? 

Sometimes changing your dac can be just the right move in retuning a system and gainging musicality.

A very fluid dac like the Aqua Formula XHD with a really good streamer might be just the ticket.

In the case of a turntable you may need to swtich cart or phono stage.

Other things which affect a system to remove grunge obviously power conditoning and power cables, Do you run your Pass amps into the wall or into a conditioner?

The NCF boosters add a beautiful warmth to a system as well.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

While auditioning several very good speakers a couple years back, I found that the more dynamic and revealing speakers, although impressive and gratifying at first, after a short time, did not set well with my ears.
As much as I thought I would like a beautiful set of small, quite expensive Raidhos, I soon came to the conclusion there was a reason I prefer ribbons and stats and listening at moderate volume levels.

@audiotroy  I doubt that grunge has anything to do with his problem.......Jim

Your room is getting over pressurized and  bass loaded. You can move them out into the room, or you can purchase a ton of bass busters. 

While auditioning several very good speakers a couple years back, I found that the more dynamic and revealing speakers, although impressive and gratifying at first, after a short time, did not set well with my ears.

This is a pet peeve of mine. There’s lots of ways to tweak or juice a speaker system, in the bass and the treble, which may make you feel like your ears are 20 years younger, but long term are tiring.

In some cases this is fine if you listen at low volume, but several designs rely on peaks and valleys in the tweeters to give this exaggerated treble.

It’s important to evaluate for a long time, and at the actual listening levels you listen at. If you are going to drive your Ferrari to/from the supermarket, that’s really the speed you test drive it at.

I feel some of the smaller Magico's tend to be more cool, but smooth. Dali has a big jump in tweeter level they use, and then I see B&W along with some GE designs use the tweeter peak and valley method.