Blimey you sound like you have lived my life, I have hearing issues in one ear, but I went ahead & re-started building a system again, Marantz pm & cd 6007, rega planar 3 & B&W 607 s2 silver anniversaries. It sounds great, I think your brain adapts plus you turn your speakers in & I get the whole experience, not saying it sounds like it probably should to me but I get great separation & hear great individual instruments, to top it off the wife walked in at first demo & said Wow that sounds detailed, I laughed because that's just not her. Anyway I feel like I am getting great music & separation maybe due to toeing in perfectly. I have been reborn as I bought my first system in 1978 which was technics.Don't give up you can still enjoy music. Why do you think I call myself the deaf audiophile ? because I wouldn't give up my music & kept persevering.