This purchase of the Grado Bushmills X is particularly special to me. My wife (the "Kay" of kayandjohn), a scholar in Irish literature with emphasis on William Butler Yeats, spent 6 years at the Yeats Summer School, Sligo, Ireland, where she took courses from the likes of Seamus Heaney, who later won the Nobel Prize in literature. She taught me the love of all things Irish (including Irish whiskey, such as Bushmills). She later guided me through Ireland in her own special tour, even introducing me to the family she stayed with those six years at the Yeats Summer School.
My wife passed away on June 24, just 18 days ago. She had begun to tolerate, if not appreciate, my headphone hobby in the last days of her long illness (I have several recent treasured photos of her wearing, unwillingly but with grace, my HD 800s, PS1000s, and GS1000s), and so the purchase of Irish-themed headphones of my favorite brand is really in her memory. Her memorial service includes a reception at Ann Arbor's Irish pub, commemorating her infection of at least 2,000 students of all things Irish.
I cannot imagine a more fitting purchase.