Is it me or new audio gear is too perfect and give ear fatigue?

@jeffseight ...To eliminate yourself from the equation, have your ears checked if you haven't.  Give you a 'baseline' as to what your personal response really is. ;)

I finally broke down and resorted to aids...I hadn't noticed that birdsong had become absent in my life....😒  Age is something none get to ignore...

@mapman , there's the choices of what connected in what manner to the final reproducer in the given space that has to make the given source sound different Everywhere...

And then there's the thought and intentions one makes in choosing nearly all of the above.  Imaging and depth I've got, even near-field...
Makes me want to play with the imaging, but I digress...*S*

I prefer 'flat' as much as practical, but given the space I'm in (that's not a subtle joke, btw), flat out difficult.  Long story, no Cliffs' Note on it....

SOTA stuff appeals, but I'd end up wanting 3 pairs of those Atmasphere D's...totally beyond means making a local dealer nonexistent ideal. 

A man's got to know his limitations..... ;)

@mike_in_nc ...but where in..?  AVL here...

The 2 amps I use (swapping them from time to time) are a single ended tube amp by Dennis Had and a Pass XA-25, and the remarkable thing is how similar they sound although they're utterly different designs. I dislike distortion or noise from any gear (except purposefully distorted guitar amps) and prefer efficient speakers to minimize heavy lifting from an amp, but proper clean treble has gotta be there and any gear that does otherwise leaves the house and isn't invited back.

Try before you buy, have on home demo. Any decent dealer should afford you this facility. Saves a lot of heartache and most importantly money.

Perfect on paper, maybe. The ears say otherwise. 

@wturkey   Don't agree.  If the set-up has a near flat frequency response and low distortion then...............'it's you'.

Could be something mechanical in your ears - both ears?? - or your state of mind/mood at the time of listening.  Our brain responses to music vary according to psychological factors.  That's why it's not sensible to judge system sound changes without applying blind testing to weed out the merely psychological.