From what I have experienced, your headphones/earbuds might have a siginificant peak somewhere in their frequency response. Play a sine sweep and if one frequency becomes too loud try to remove it in EQ. My particular headphones have a vicious peak at around 9000Hz that makes them unusable for long periods without EQ, so I'd try that first
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Reply to why does audio quality get worse after using earbuds for awhile? by ButterBallTheFatCat
From what I have experienced, your headphones/earbuds might have a siginificant peak somewhere in their frequency response. Play a sine sweep and if one frequency becomes too loud try to remove it in EQ. My particular headphones have a vicious peak at around 9000Hz that makes them unusable for long periods without EQ, so I'd try that first