Hi
I like headphones with midbass, I had cascades and I really liked them. The only thing that his midbass hump was too accentuated, although with cloth pads it was controlled. I think that aeolus could be similar but more refined and controlled I will also love it. I compare aeolus / atticus with cascade with cloth pads, cascades as standard, they are not similar, I know it.
Anandas has a little subbass lack but works very well to eq. With my ifi idsd micro idsd signature with xbass activated they sound great, tonally perfect and with remarkable resolution, for me if they had the resolution of utopias they would be absolutely perfect. For me they are an excellent allrounder. Maybe th900 are better at edm and hip hop and grado gs3000e at rock and jazz, but ananda sounds 8.5 all in all genres. The only problem that they don't work well with my tube amp and I want some headphones that sound good on it, that's where zMf comes into play
I think that for low, low and medium I would like both zmf, (auteur and aeolus). I am more concerned about the treble of both, I would not like them to sound veiled.
Recently I had a few days, focal clear again and I did not like them, I did not remember them like that, they seemed too boring and much narrower and with less serious than ananda. In demanding subjects in subbass like ost pail runner 2049, they clipped, I find it embarrassing in a headset of that price. 2 years ago I had elear and same failure.
The zmf that I bought, I would use them mainly in my tube amp, feliks audio espressivo mark ii with electro harmonix tubes, quite neutral, they give a little more body than the ifi micro idsd, but the highs are almost the same, a little softer.
Also say that I have a GS3000e grade, their mids and highs are magnificent too, with guitars, in jazz, classical and soft rock they sound great.
Your problem,? The subbass is minimal, they can't be an allrounder for me with that non-existent subbass.
I enjoy a lot with clean subbass like anandas or th900s
I think I have already described my tastes with more precision hehe.
I listen to everything a lot of rock, 80's music, pop, ost, electonic and classical and jazz less frequently.
Thank you all very much for the advice given and the ones you can give me, greetings