Question for the Hi-Fi experts ??


I want to go with tube gear or SS gear that don't add or suppress anything from the source. The test is simple, I get a high quality headphones and plug it in my cd player. I listen to a dream sound that I can't not get using the amplifier and speakers. Why that big loss in quality and that big different when using headphones. I would like to get a tube amplifier that don't add but don't suppress anything either. Finally, I have to use tone controls to recover the loss even when this is coloring the sound. I am happy with a headphone and don't need tone controls. Why my speakers sound totally different and worse than the headphones?? . Please, advice my a tube amplifier that don't steal sound quality. To compensate the loss I need tone controls. Why ??
Thanks.
dvjorge

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Thanks for the answers. It is tru but why when I listen to directly from the cd player I have a lot of details, clarity, transparence, clear highs, that I don't get when using an amplifier and speakers. I don't like tone controls but I need them because if I listened flat or bypassing the tone controls, it looks like an AM radio. That is the thing I don't understand. Why that big loss in sound quality ??? If the cd player is delivering the same sound to the output jacks that the headphone jack, why that quality isn't reproduced by the speakers. I am talking about any quality brand because I have tested it in Hi-end dealers and with high end gear. The problem is the same. Always, the headphones give better details,transparence, etc.