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listening fatigue?

After listening to a particular song, which apparently had busted audio quality (distortion typical of bitrate-starved mp3/aac) and I didn't turn it off soon enough,
I think my ears began imagining those kinds of annoying artifacts all the time even when I know fairly sure they cannot be there.
Well, except that this happens with loudspeakers which work via Bluetooth (SBC) but afaik SBC does not really cause the same type of distortion so that would be still unexpected (and they sounded okay to me until then anyway).
Is this even possible? And if so, any chance it could get back to normal eventually?
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I had the opposite effect many years ago.    I was trying to repair a car stereo with distortion and after awhile working on it and listening to it my ears adapted and it started sounding normal.    I had to listen to something else that wasn't broken to refresh my ears.

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I think my ears began imagining those kinds of annoying artifacts all the time even when I know fairly sure they cannot be there.
For me, if it sounds good it sounds good and if it sounds bad it sounds bad.   I don't TRY to hear defects.  I just want to enjoy the music and I've avoided trying to train myself to hear compression artifacts.    In fact, I have MP3s that I listen to in my car and every time I thought I was hearing a compression artifact, the same "defect" was on the original CD.   

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I don't TRY to hear defects.  I just want to enjoy the music …
Same! The problem is, I don't need to consciously try, it happens automatically.
Anyway, seems like it got at least somewhat better by today.
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Its sort of normal but can happen more easily if your ear(s) has wax impaction. 

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There are plenty reasons for...

Personally, I have found that bass reflex-type loudspeakers are much more fatiguing than acoustic suspension ones.
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Its sort of normal but can happen more easily if your ear(s) has wax impaction.
On a side note, I had to look that up; but it's very informative.

Thanks.
The older the 'lossier' - meaning: my hearing & my music collection.
After all, I listen to the music, not the media it's on.