Confused Musical Presentation


Disclaimer!.... I have neurological auditory damage from exposure to military ordinance without hearing protection and therefore wear hearing aids. I have suffered a considerable amount of hearing loss above 3000Hz. The effect is similar to a treble tone control turned all the way down! However, I've been a music lover and audiophile since the early 80s and have enjoyed a lot of different systems over those years. My present system consists of Wilson Sophia 1, Quicksilver V4 (KT150), BAT 32SE, Cary DMC 600SE, and analog front end is driven by AVID Pulsus and ZYX 4D. Cables are Analysis Plus all around. I have minimal room treatment in 17 x 28 dedicated listening room. 

My  Problem: Listening to small group jazz (90%), typical audiophile fare, and solo instrumental and vocal music is simply breathtaking even at higher volume levels.  (My max on the volume is 80 out of 140 on BAT) No issues at all. However, when the music gets complicated/complex everything goes to crap! Soundstage collapses, music is jumbled together. There is the same effect even at moderate listening levels. Any suggestions to remedy this would be greatly appreciated.

Mike
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first ide try to eliminate the system by asking someone else without a hearing problem to listen .the effect you describe is quite dramatic and noticeable. even though to me it makes sense that the small mic\speaker in the hearing aid are overloaded. 
in my system (nuforce icon hd arcam delta 120 b&w dm 580)i used to enjoy 70's ecm  albums (early metheny jan garbarek ralph towner)but could't enjoy led zeppelin everything collapsed like you describe so this helped with clarity
swap all the tubes to nos ge jan tubes
get a loki or some transpenant mild eq
get the ifi itube (it has a ge tube it's adding to the preamp) use it with zero gain as a buffer before or after the preamp
get really nice open headphones and amp i'm happy with hd700 and the icon hd but according to your system you have a finer taste than me so try and see what you like maybe staxx