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.
Koss ksc75 lol
Depends on what you mean by satisfy: “endgame”, no more buying headphones (doesn’t exist) or “i could live with just this headphone forever”.
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.There is no headphone that satisfied me fully. No headphone is perfect. There is always some weakness.
64 audio tia trio (IEMs)
Portable: Alessandro MS1, Full sized: Audeze LCD3
HD600, cliche as it is. Heard them for 5 seconds and was like “yup, this is it”.
Focal Clear og
openback - HD600 with cavalli tube hybrid :)
among iem - Shure se846 with Cayin RU6 as source!
DT 770 and then double stacked the foam disc to ease on the harshness. Very happy with it 4 years now
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
Koss ksc75 lol