So, let's hear a little interim conclusion after a few days!
The headphones smell damn good! It's really addictive and you could sniff it all day long... seems to be a special wax! Never before a headphone of mine has smelled so good!
Right to the first negative point. Sorry Zach, no offense. But the standard cord is a disgrace, I can't say otherwise! You can get that with 100USD headphones, but definitely not with 1000USD headphones! There it is totally out of place! It's optically absolutely ugly, it's damn stiff and sounds very bad. I now have an Audeze copper cable on it, it sounds much better and is much easier to handle. Well understood, is a cable, which comes standard with LCD-2 upwards. It costs in CHF 189.-- to buy later, so much better quality. No dear Zach, you have to work on the standard cables. Also disappointing what comes with the 3000USD Verite. In this price range the demands are higher. I have now ordered a silver cable from Zach, but it shouldn't be necessary in this class. You would expect a very good cable. This by the way. And I hope Zach will think about it. Personally I would rather do without the wooden box and get a very good cable instead. Anyway, the wooden box will end up in the storage room soon.
But now the most important thing, the sound! No, it is absolutely brilliant. I like the sound tuning extremely well! I mainly listen to trance, rock and "poisonously" recorded pop songs. That is absolutely outstanding. Strong, clean bass foundation and yes, they can also really hit it when they have to. Very nice mids, beautiful voices and clear highs, rather decent and absolutely not poisonous. Absolutely brilliant tuning. It all fits perfectly and I enjoy the visually beautiful and sonically excellent headphones every day! For this I would like to thank and compliment Zach.
If it weren't for the lousy cable, it would be perfect for this kind of music. But I hate it when I buy expensive headphones and then have to buy an expensive cable. But otherwise great!