Well, the budget is pretty much unlimited, I could probably get Laylas if I wanted to. (Not boasting, seriously, had to work like
insane to get here
)
I like indie, rock, electronic. Not super interested in jazz or classic.
I have shure se535s, which I like a lot, but find lacking in wow. And (probably fake) Sennheiser ie800s which are more impressive but the treble is intolerable. (Mostly why I think they're fakes, although I have other reasons too, got them dirt cheap off eBay.) But fake or not, they still gave me a taste of dynamic drivers vs the Shures balanced armatures and I got to say, I like the
soul and PRAT and musicality of dynamics more from what I've heard.
Which is why I'm thinking of Dita The Answer, Truth editions. The other candidates would be Angie-Roxanne-Layla universals, Shure 846 and maybe if I lose my mind Shure KSE 1500, but that's not out yet and kind of defeats the purpose of getting an AK240, since the KSE 1500 needs (and comes with) it's own amp.
Oh, and then there's Beyerdynamic/Astell&Kern T8ie, but that's not out yet either. So many possibilities, makes my head spin.