Nice! Glad to see the family taking interest in each other's hobbies/activities.
My dad.. well, he used to work for Audio-Technica during my formative years, so he literally taught me about good sound. So yeah, "thanks" dad.
On a side note, you appear to be one of the few who has had experience with the Kennerton Magni. @Mhog55 is actively hunting for impressions of this headphone. Maybe you could help him with that?
My mother, a high level amateur pianist, gave me a taste of classical music, and of romantic classical piano in particular; I discovered with her the Russian composers: Borodin, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov ....
The Magni V2 is a very good closed-back electrodynamic headphone, well dynamic with a percussive bass that level is quite dependent on the pressure of the pads (you have to tighten the clamping of the head-band); it has more treble in level than the Thror and the Thekk and is less fine and fluid than the Thror and the Thekk: let's say that it plays in a league below that of Thror and Thekk. The difference is perhaps less obvious on a source and a mid-range amp (like the small Matrix M-Stage headphone amp); this difference becomes more pronounced with a more high-end, or even very high-end amp where the difference in precision, refinement and 3D aspect of the soundstage becomes evident. The sound scene is more diffuse with the Magni ; the midrange is less precise and less coherent; the treble is harder compared to the Thror and Thekk.
However, this is a relative evaluation with two top-of-the-range open planar headphones. I understood that the Magni V2 had knocked out the Focal Elegia, which would not be the best Focal headphones, far from it, while the Thekk rivals perfectly with the Utopia and the Meze Empyrean.
The Magni V3 would be even better than the V2 (with better controlled resonances in the treble than the V2, with its solid wood table).
As for the Gjallarhorn GH 50 and JM Edition (even better controlled), others than me are better placed to talk about it
; it sounds like an exceptional closed-back headphone, but a bit typed.
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