for me it was and still is the meze 109 pro

it is just perfect sounding in every aspect for me. and the treble is no issue for mye anymore. it is a fun, easy driven headphone.

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    1 year ago

    Depends on what you mean by satisfy: “endgame”, no more buying headphones (doesn’t exist) or “i could live with just this headphone forever”.

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    1 year ago

    In the past it was the Fostex Purpleheart.
    Never got one myself but a friend of mine who had them often gave it to me over some weekends. Never found anything similar in sound since today.

    I demo’d some headphones at the beginning of this year and I really liked the sound of the Focal Elex. Sadly I heard a lot of bad things about their driver issues so haven’t bought them.

    Still searching to this day for an easy to drive headphone with good detail, a really strong bass and somewhat a balance between sparkly and a bit of laid back treble. I’m sensitive if it’s a harsh treble but I still need a bit of it to make the music I am listening to sound exciting.
    All the headphone that are fulfilling these criterias are simply way above my budget.

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    1 year ago

    There is no headphone that satisfied me fully. No headphone is perfect. There is always some weakness.

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    1 year ago

    Portable: Alessandro MS1, Full sized: Audeze LCD3

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    1 year ago

    HD600, cliche as it is. Heard them for 5 seconds and was like “yup, this is it”.

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    1 year ago

    openback - HD600 with cavalli tube hybrid :)

    among iem - Shure se846 with Cayin RU6 as source!

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    1 year ago

    DT 770 and then double stacked the foam disc to ease on the harshness. Very happy with it 4 years now

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    1 year ago

    Focal Utopia is close, but it’s not great for metal music or anything else with a ton of electric guitars… waiting to stumble over a pile of cash to throw it in the direction of a Susvara or Abyss, they seem to bring punch into the world of highly resolving planars.

    Audeze unfortunately has a flagship that might sound good but is sized for toddlers in my wobbleheaded opinion