Arya

to put it simply HiFiMaN offers what I want. I love my HE5xx and Arya. and don't need anything else. because they are not broken and I haven't had a single issue. (i also have he400i not with me they are almost a decade old). I eq my arya with like 15db of bass boost (-15db gain), and they still handle it fine and even with the excessive amount of power running from the el amp, the rest of the audio is still crispy and enjoyable. and I can say the he5xx are my grail headphone, they are so comfy... I got rid of my lcd2c because they are not made for my head size. never could get them to be comfy, the arya also in my opinion sound better. oh and I just didn't listen to people that said they were bad.

I can kind of relate, but for me to comming to the arya was different than the dt770, immediately i was hit with more soundstage more details and i thought it maybe lacked something. After a while i tried my other headphones the dt770 and the hifiman svanar wireless, and the oposite happened i was feeling claustrophobic, close, somewhat intimate sounding voicing, and figured that was the thing. I was so used to the closed sound that initially it's absence was lacking after getting used to it, the aryas sound just more natural on top of the already added detail and soundstage. But i do make a case that sometimes i really much enjoy a closed back type of headphone due to the vacum of sound and feeling disconnected with the surrounding, i found that i sometime use a headphone just to isolate sound (also why i was hit of guard with the aryas).

I've owned HD800s, Arya, and a whole bunch of Audezes and Dan Clarks with every imaginable high-end amp and DAC. Hands-down the best gaming cans I've ever owned are a pair of Beyerdynamic T70p nodded with a detachable boom mic straight out of my Xbox controller.

Skip Sennheiser. I've had the 660s, 650, 6XX, 600 and the 800s (twice). The Arya is much better then the 800s and theres a massive gap between the 800s and the 6 series headphones.

To me the 650/600 sounds flat, has no excitement, no punch, smaller staging. They're not even close to being on the same level as the Arya. My preference of course

I've had both, they're not even close to being as good as the Arya while weighing considerably more and feeling like you're wearing bricks on your head. I get people like the LCD-X and it EQs well but you can't EQ the weight of them

Arya Organic. Had the XV, Arya OG, and HE1000 unveiled, but the Organic has the most slam (after EQ) without distortion.