Hi DecentLevi,
I have a feeling, after fixing my prior mistake, that my moded headphone is not that much different from yours (other than bass port). I tried Lyova's, although it is still moded differently form yours, and I still like my original better. Maybe it's different head and/or ear... =)
In terms of taste, a little bit of V-shape doesn't bother me although I *think* I prefer neutral headphones. Other headphone that I enjoy is the OPPO pm-3. It is neutral and I think it sounds slightly better than HP150. I don't have PM-3 so I can't compare with the mod side-by-side but I think PM-3 sounds better than the moded HP150 (for me). I think from memory PM-3 is more neutral than moded HP150. If you have PM-3, please compare them and let me know if you think the same way.
As for meets, I am probably not able to go. My wife complains about the last HeadFi meet that I was out the whole afternoon and she had to take kids to their activities. If you want, you can borrow my HP150 and we can meet somewhere and you return it to me in a few days or a week. However, my HP150 currently has much of the ports open and rims not sealed as I like it better than sealed. I might try to seal the rims this weekends just to try. PM me if you want to borrow.
Maybe you or Packdemon can ask if Tyll @ innerfidelity care to measure your headphone and publish it? Although I found some of his measurement does not represent the sonic characteristics of headphones that I hear, but it matches for some headphones....
norepeat