Hello all! I've been into the hobby for a bit now but mostly just the Reddit side of things, so this is my first post here!
I just recently upgraded from a set of HE4XX to Anandas and I wanted to share some impressions. When I reference EQ, I am talking about a personally modified-to-my-tastes version from Oratory1990's preset index.
Cans I have owned and tried: K7XX, SHP9500, Meze 99 Noir, M40x, Sivga SV006, KSC75 (these are bitchin)
BASS: It's all there. You can give these a 10db bass shelf and they still sound phenomenal. With the HE4XX, EQing in that much bass would be reaching the absolute limit of the driver. The size of the drivers as well as the cans' shape is very conducive to providing this b i g thick sound in the lows.
MIDS: Vocals on these are far superior on these compare to HE4XX, especially un EQd. Female vocals especially are just rich and full bodied, and trumpets in jazz tracks as well as middle frequency string instrument sound is wonderful.
TREBLE: To me, the treble is where a good planar can really shine in terms of transients and taking advantage of the immediacy of a membrane driver. This can does it, although I'd say these are not as bright as some describe them, which did not surprise me--I prefer brighter headphones despite my younger age for whatever reason. These seem less bright than the un EQd HE4XX to me, more along the lines of the K7XX brightness. But better in every way. I EQ just a bit more treble and they certainly make me happy--high end headphones have so much more treble extension especially with EQ, wow.
Overall, these headphones really excel in microdynamics and accuracy to me. Transients are instantaneous, even with a ton of EQ, and that means these have a very good level of detail. However, for whatever reason, my ears still percieve my Blessing 2s as just a touch more detailed. I do not percieve these to be detail kings, there is still that last bit of unresolved-ness and fuzziness that I can juuuust percieve, I believe. I have a feeling it really only gets better from here due to placebo effect and the i-spent-a-lot-of-money effect to a certain degree. But the "bigness" of the soundstage and just the sheer size of the drivers means that these certainly still have their place. Eventually I want to try Focal Clear/Elex as well as LCD-2 someday for some more comparison opportunities.