My favourite genres are classical (piano/guitar) and singer/songwriter but i listento all kinds of music.
Indeed, female vocals are gorgeous, especially with a good source and a valve amp.The love affair with the Atrium is unabating. Female vocals are beautifully voiced and that's most of my listening. I feel like it's a bio-cell sister of one of my long time favorites, the SR-007. Warm but not dark (given using thin pad of choice on the Atrium), rich vocals, and incredible imaging ability. It's such an emotive headphone just like the SR-007.
Recently I've listened to the following:
Sarah Reed, Singing Solo
Lucy Ann Polk
Amber Rubarth, Scribbled Folk Symphonies
Kelly Sweet
Kat Edmonson, Take to the Sky
Loreena McKennitt, Wind that shakes the barley
Tierney Sutton, After Blue
Athena, Breathe with me
Laurie Allyn, Paradise
OK, not all are singer/songwriters, but I like them all very much and the Atrium loves them, they love the Atrium, and I love the result.
Just a comment on sources. I've been trying out an unusual CD player. It is an old Marantz with TDA1541A dac chip, reckoned by many to be the best dac chip ever and my experience seems to confirm this. The player had major upgrades done by the UK ebay seller; capacitor upgrades, schottky diodes, better regulators, conversion to non oversampling, and a clock upgrade. Then I added a full valve output stage, much as done by Lampizator (look up the website). As I know a bit about valves, I knew I could do a lot better than Lampizator by using better sounding valves, a similar but better circuit, and a high quality power supply. Results are great on all kinds of music, and very special indeed for female vocals. Transparency and detail are excellent, without any trace whatever of hardness; tonality is superb, instruments having their tonal colour and character. Musicality and rhythm are great; a solid sound, natural, realism. It is my best CD player; definitely better than my reworked Cayin CD100i and that's not a bad player.
If you think I've gone over the top, I'll mention that quite a few people say that a TDA1541A machine reworked and 'lampizated' is pretty much as good as CD gets at any price, possibly as good as digital ever gets.
I prefer this Marantz to the Aqua La Scala DAC, and that's really saying something as that is a good unit.
If you ever get the chance to buy a similar machine (they come up occasionally on UK ebay), buy it! Must be one with the TDA1541A.
(just to be clear, I do not modify or sell such things myself, this is not self promotion!).
With this source, a good OTL valve amp and the Atrium, the above music is just out of this world.