Recommendation for Headphones

You’re gonna get recommendations all over the place unless you share what sound characteristics are most important to you.  Also, can you use open-back headphones that leak sound into the room or do you need closed-back so as not to bother others or to seal out outside noise?

Thanks, that helps a lot. You should take a look at Audeze ‘phones, and if bass impact/slam is important you might prefer their closed-back models but by all means try open backed too as the soundstage tends to sound more open and expansive so it’s just trade offs based on your personal preferences. You’ll definitely need a separate headphone amp to drive them properly and I’d recommend the Singxer SA-1 fully-balanced, Class A amp that I own and use with Hifiman Arya ‘phones to great effect and would fit well with your stated preferences. It’s $599 on Amazon, but here’s a very nice used unit for $445(or maybe less if you feel lucky bidding) if you’re open to buying used…

https://www.ebay.com/itm/265856241860

If you’d prefer a tube amp the Quicksilver amp is excellent and retails for $1200 but can be had used around $850 if you’re patient. Anyway, just some options to explore, and best of luck in your search.

What about mids, treble, warm versus more neutral, soundstage/imaging, etc.?  What kind of music do you tend to listen to?  The more info you give the more targeted and useful the recommendations will be. 

BTW, I bought both my headphones as open box items — one from a reputable dealer on Amazon (Gramophone) and the other direct from Hifiman and in both cases it worked out great as both were as new and I saved hundreds of $$$.  FWIW. 

Just fyi, in another post a member was looking for similar sound characteristics and I also recommended Audeze to him, but he actually ended up preferring the overall sound of the Hifiman Arya and went with those instead, which kinda surprised me as the Arya is more neutral sounding with less bass emphasis (although still very solid, quick, and tight bass) relative to Audeze IME.  Just goes to show nothing replaces an audition if you can swing it. FWIW.

Ooh you bugger! As mentioned earlier I’ve got the Arya Stealths and lust after the HE1000v2s. Congrats!!! What headphone amp are you using because that will be key to cable matching?

The Moon cable is designed for a warm, musical presentation, so the only concern would be if between that and your amp if that may or may not be too much of a good thing?  If you’d rather just pass on the sound characteristics your amp produces you might want to consider something more neutral sounding like this…

https://www.lavricables.com/cables/ultimate-silver-hifiman-he1000-upgrade-cable/
 

I use this with my Arya Stealths and Class A solid state headphone amp and find it to be very balanced and neither too warm or too bright sounding — nothing stands out over anything else in the sonic spectrum.  Which would be right for you I’ve absolutely no idea, and as we all know cables can be a crapshoot as to how they’ll perform in any individual system but just thought I’d pass this on FWIW,