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German techno and Polish IDM.

It takes a special kind of audiophile to find some crap on Alibaba and rebadge it... inu2it or what ever they are really called. I never sold my HE90's...

I think no matter what headphones you get, they will compromise on either one or the other. Piano is a really special instrument with a wide range and lots of rich, organic overtones and subtle, interacting acoustic energy transferring between the strings (one note has three strings, did you know that?). Guitar is lovely too, in its simplicity. A truly perfect guitar note starts out rather triangular, and eventually attenuates to the closest one can come to purity, the sine wave. You really need two sets of headphones. And on ensembles, don't get me started.

Some modern Irish folk - don't be put off by the "f" word, though. It's a cracking tune if a bit dark..

It did knock me on my ass the first time that I heard it, too, I admit- I was quiet for a good while after. Yes, there's a lot of power there, worn very lightly. She doesn't mess around.

Below is from my kitchen today. I had to test if the DN2540 would do. 25 mA on the meter and voltage, from an old KGSSHV supply, is 887 volts. Only one half of Circlotron and the current seems to stable enough. Might be continued if I don’t break arms and legs during coming week down hill skiing.

reminds me of the first time I tried to swim

Ah Martin Carthy rings bells too. I know Frankie Armstrong's nephew, who has been suitably raised loving all sorts of suitable folk*. He has plenty of interesting tales to tell. Someone with a better memory might even have remembered them. My only "the famous playing in a small venue" encounter was seeing Mark Knopfler's Notting Hillbillies at Poole Arts Centre many years ago- oddly brilliant, lots of old blues numbers and spirituals. Seeing three National Steel guitars on the same (tiny) stage at once was quite something. Something of an uncool thing for a schoolboy to go and see, maybe, but the musicianship on display was well worth it. * As well as unsuitable noisecore industrial, and weirdly- Eat Static. He loves him some Eat Static along with his encyclopedic knowledge of folk. Go figure.

Also finished and also liked. Very creative reworking of the classic. I also like Sean Bean.

I actually had the luxury of playing with these for a couple of hours in a Head-Fi meet and a couple months later at CanJam Europe where he brought different impedance versions. They actually do sound really good compared them to HD800S, Focal Utopia and the old K1000. Very very fast and I was looking forward to them. But that price shocked me a little.

The problem with these newcomer headphones is that they are always the "best" thing... until the next "version" comes along, where that one suddenly becomes so much better than the last one. Just look at how much time it took to progress from the LCD-2 (which was still not the first one from Audeze) to the LCD-4. It was about 6 years I think, and even with the latter there are still sample variations involved. So where does this stop? And I would like to add that our mind is very "clever" in that it can adjust relatively well to any "not-completely-crap" sound signature, so in the long-term there is always a better chance of becoming the "best" as opposed to just auditioning something else. So maybe the real question about the "best" is: "is there actually such a thing" and maybe the "current personal favourite" is a much better description.

It's almost like Dave Swarbrick ("Swarb") who was one of the founders of Fairport Convention, and a folk fiddler who's style has been copied ever since. We saw him shortly before he died for the second time in 2016. He basically had smoked so much that he contracted emphysema, and ended up performing with an oxygen cylinder next to him and a mask from which he'd take relief from time to time. Anyway, in 1999 he was admitted to hospital in pretty poor shape, and The Daily Telegraph published his obituary. He subsequently recovered, and used to read out the obituary at concerts! The folk community then held benefit concerts called "Swarb-aid" and "Swarb-aid 2" to raise money for a double lung transplant, which went ahead in 2004. That bought him 12 more years, and continuing wall to wall concerts. So yes - Swarb died twice, and is one of the few people to have had two obituaries separated by 17 years.