I got my first kilobuck headphones with Focal Clears. Love them. Excellent.
BUT
I am finding it hard to actually listen to the music. What I find myself doing is bouncing my focus around listening to individual pieces and going “wow I can pick this out when I couldn’t before!” However, this is both exhausting and stops me hearing my music at all.
It feels kind of like when you go to IMAX the first few times and your eyes are just constantly bouncing around until you realize the way to do it is just relax your eyes into the middle and stop worrying about the periphery. However, I just can’t seem to figure out how to relax into my music.
Does anyone have any advice?
Over time this will bother you less and less. At first when I got my first good headphones (Philips SHP9600) I was like “woah, space!” and “woah, instrument separation” for about a month. You still hear this but your brain won’t be distracted as much as you get used to it. I’d say do your best to enjoy music with your new headphones, it will be counterintuitive to downgrade over something like this but if it does come to that I can’t blame you.