Interesting you say that because the headphone cables for my HD650 are blue dragon cables. For everything else they are audioquest cables, Yukon's on the XLR i believe and carbon on the USB. For my HE400I i have Periapt cables. I have always prefered my HD650 but yesterday i was A/B the joker sound track and that was the first time I was really like holy crap thats that plainars should sound like and preferred it over the 650. Specifically the bathroom dance via tital hifi. Im debating trying out a "higher end" planar such as the Sundaras or the EDITION XS.
I (think) I prefer the "warmer", more tight bass "funner" sound. I tend to listen mostly though tital hifi, or my collection of cds i meticulously ripped in level 8 (or what ever its called) flac with highest error correction on dbpower. It was legit like 2hr a cd if i remember right but it was the beginning of 2020 i had time to burn
I use foobar for my cd.
I'm would not call my self fancy in the music department im a fan of most type of rock music: stones, who, doors, beatles, nirvana, korn, seether, RHCP, radiohead, metallica just rattle a few stuff off. Out of that short list only a few have "good" masters.
I may get into rolling my own cables, never done that before but I'm a techie so I should learn how to do it.