Coming from Fidelio X2's, Sennheiser 6XX's, and DT 770 Pro's. Holy. Moly. Upon first giving them a listen, I became immediately relaxed, because I was nervous my purchase was a mistake and I wouldn't enjoy them as much.

These surpass my expectations, and then some. I felt like I did my due diligence by experimenting with "lower end" headphones (compared to these!) to find my sound signature. I realize I really enjoy bright headphones with gobs of detail, and these sound incredible. I'm hearing things in songs I never knew existed, the plucks of strings sound like I'm playing the instrument with it right in from of me at times. Imaging got me by surprise, and I'm able to clearly point at the exact direction each sound is coming from, and with clarity, while all instruments are playing. It's wild!

You know that awesome feeling when you get a new pair of headphones and you listen to familiar music and wait for that one song to catch you by surprise and make you all giggly? When you hear things you've never heard before, and get excited to listen to your entire library just to find more songs that give that extra sensation of amazingness because they just have that awesome twinkle that you never heard before, bass notes you didn't expect, or the way some electronic music can sound absolutely alien with some wild sounds that come out of nowhere? You know what I mean by this? Yeah, this happens with every song with the DT 1990 Pro's for me.

I'm listening to Shania Twain When right now with the biggest smile on my face, and just earlier my brain was melting listening to Exmag Low Tide at 0:40 into the song when you hear the sparks rolling through the track, these sounds are so vibrant, colorful, unique, separated, individual, charismatic. I don't know what other words I can use to describe how each individual sound and instrument has its own space, I've never heard such clear separation between instruments before, and I am blown away.

I'm glad I took the plunge and went a little deeper this time. I've been listening to pretty "meh" headphones for the last 12 years, but they allowed me to work my way through to find my perfect headphone, and I think this is it.