Anyone else experience fatigue after listening to the HD800s for a few hours?
What do you do to cope with this fatigue? Sleep? Watch TV? Go for a walk? Have a bite to eat?
The reason we get fatigued after a few hours on one headphone & not another is that 1 has a much higher amount of high frequency
"hash" (a lot of people like to call this "air";we really can't "hear" air) is acting like a constant "drone" that becomes a cumulative stress
on our eardrums. The sound is being generated by the headphones themselves & while a lot of people aren't sensitive to this noise
their eardrums could "care less" as it bothers them !
When you finally reach the point where your ears have had enough you feel fatigued (& may also experience a slight bit of "tinitus"
after taking the headphones off). At this point the best thing you can do is give your ears as much rest as you can (for a few hours
at least)
As JJ mentioned several hrs ago the Anax mods help quite a bit ,as they arey introducing more "random" lower frequency sound
to the mix to "interrupt" the unchecked "hash" that is creating the constant "drone"(that you don't know is there) (These mods really
aren't that difficult & are completely reversible). The important thing here is that you introduce something to change the sound balance.
(Can you introduce a balance change by using a different amp ? Sure, but you don't have to (unless you just prefer the "sound" of
that amp) to get rid of the "hash")
If you do nothing else (& that would be ridiculous :as you have these great headphones) shorten your listening sessions to a point
before you notice fatigue & take several listening breaks . If you do become fatigued only a substantial listening break (at least an
hr, more if possible) is going to help you out, or LFF will pop right back up & you may now have to suspend your listening for the
day !