Speakers for super sensitive ears?


Has anybody had a similar experience to mine and found that commercial speakers just arent finely tuned to your ears anywhere near as well as you would like and that no commercial speaker sounds right?

I believe I am in that elite group. What is the solution to this?
I have found that pretty much every speaker that is for sale isnt good enough for my exquisuite requirements. 



kenjit

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Are you sure you really are only ordinarily sensitive to other components?

Most other components make little difference. I cant hear cables. 
Scientific hearing tests would presumably be able to confirm whether your hearing capabilities truly exceed those typical of your age group and gender.
I dont claim to have superior hearing with test tones. Only with music. So a standard hearing test would prove nothing. 
Why aren't you considering THAT option?
You are human. It's possible to be faulty, and it's possible the fault lies with you, right?

In fact, that would make much more sense, and be more likely, than everyone else is wrong and you are right.
because if the fault lies with me I would want speakers to sound more bright not less bright to make up for the hearing loss. 
Everybody including me has hearing loss. Thats a red herring though. 


I have come to the conclusion that most speakers are designed by people that dont understand good sound, they just do a few measurements and use that to convince themselves that the goal has been reached. I have good reasons to believe that some audiophiles are tone deaf. 

Now the other possibility is that my hearing is very special and i have very special requirements. 





Someone needs to call Revel and have them arrange for me to visit  their facilities to take part in blind tests. At their expense naturally. 



Or your hearing is defective?  

Or maybe audiophiles generally have bad hearing and I'm the exception?
I can hear the difference in sound by moving my head a few inches that most audiophiles wouldnt think twice about. I alone can hear problems and i alone can fix it. 
I can always hear an alteration with small head movement to some degree even with the best speakers.   I'm just realistic in not expecting perfection,
It's not to do with perfection. I know what I want to hear and if its constantly changing every time I move my head, how can it be high end? We need to raise the bar, not lower it. How can you be a true audiophile with that attitude? You either cant hear the difference, or you are not bothered by it. Either way, it disqualifies you as a true audiophile. 

Have you built your own speakers yet? If not, why not?

The real question is why aren't there any speakers out there that can satisfy my perfectly reasonable expectations? Has the audiophile community gone deaf? Are we being cheated? Is speaker design wrong? 


If he likes those 2 then he should probably give the Genelec 8351B a try,
I did. Didnt like them