Let's talk about headphones. Top 3?

I dislike headphones...

But the 12 i bought were low costs...(2 Stax,2 magneplanar, 8 dynamics) 

The only one i loved is the AKG K340...

The only hybrid...

Well optimized it is speaker like sound with a soundstage which is not always  the same and which is not inside the head and  ready made from the headphone singular cell  design, his soundstage vary  extraordinarily according to each recording, ...

There exist no other headphone in this league ..

Why could i claim that ? if i dont own top headphones save this K340 past flagship of AKG  ?

There exist no other hybrid with such a complex acoustical design.Then his soundfield impression is unique...i am afraid to buy anything else especially if it cost many thousand dollars..

A word of caution: this can is so  complex it takes a lot of months to figure it out... It does not sound perfect out of the box... Not only most headphone amp cannot drive it but  equalisation and tone controls must be used...

it is a pity AKG does not improved it but it was too costly and better for them to make other experiments and more easier to drive and understand products for the average consumers..

i dislike all headphone because i dont like unnatural timbre first and second i dislike "sound in the head" ...

I lost my first dedicated room , now i had only an acoustic corner with nearfield small speakers then at night i prefer my headphone now because they beat my speakers...Anyway they can replace and rival  most speakers at any price in a living room... I dont need more ..

I forgot to say the most important things:

This K340 is not something which will gives us details (it has all details necessary) as often reviewer like to boast about the last hype, the K340 gave us the rarest thing :  a realistic impression ...It is not a microscope but a real musical instrument with 2 dual acoustic chambers ...

Bar none without a doubt, regardless of price, the Sennheiser HD600’s are the finest sounding headphones (around $400). thats why they made them for decades. Tons of reviews too. 

Matt M

Everyone will have a different favorite flavor but mine is ZMF. I have the ZMF Verite open back and it is superb. I also have owned Sennheiser, Audeze and Beyer Dynamic and my ZMF is significantly better to my ears-but its all a matter of personal taste. The ZMFs are very musical, good bass, and an open, airy top end without the brightness I hear in Senns. More of a natural sound. Comfortable to wear.

What is more objective is the build quality. ZMF has the look and feel of a product handcrafted by artisans, not mass produced. Beautiful workmanship-something you'll want your kids to have someday. Great company based in Chicago. Several different models to suit your taste in sound. Worth a try.

I use noise canceling headphones for travel.  My Bose quiet comfort have the best noise canceling of any of the wireless cans I’ve tried.  my Focal Bathys have the best sound especially when using a cable from my iPhone or tablet to use it’s internal DAC.  The noise canceling is not as good but it sounds the best.  Clear across the sound spectrum with good bass.  It has EQ on the app so you can adjust it for your hearing which the app will also test.  Well built.  Highly recommend.  I’ve tried all of the other wireless cans in the 1K and under price range and those are my 2 favorites.  

I, too, have owned a lot of headphones From Sony, AKG, Audeze, Focal, Denon, and now HiFiMan. I've also borrowed Senn 800's and they are indeed very good. I had begun to think that I was just a Focal guy, having several different models and liking them very much as I went up the chain, but then I tried the HiFiMan HE1000 Stealth. They could clearly outdo any of my Focals (Clear Mg had been my favorite) and they just sounded "right". I sold everything else I had except the Denon 9200's because I still needed a closed-back for use in bed next to my sleeping wife, and then I set my sights on the ultimate HiFiMan, the Susvara. I was fortunate to find a dealer who would sell them to me at a sizable discount and they were drop-shipped directly to me from the company. Holy cow, I was not disappointed. While they have a reputation for being hard to drive, my original amp, a McIntosh tube HP amp had no trouble with them but when I found out that the Holo Audio Bliss amp was designed and made specifically with the Susvara in mind I knew I had to try it. It also does not disappoint. The combo, to my ears, doesn't have any obvious weaknesses. The instruments sound lifelike and the bass, while not the most prodigious of any HP I've tried (and that's a good thing) is simply dead accurate and not at all artificial or boosted. There are seriously no changes I would make whatsoever in the bass response of this system. I've always used EQ, usually in the form of a convolution filter, with all my previous headphones, but with the Susvaras there is no advantage for me to doing this, so I don't.

Of course, now there is the Susvara Unveiled which, it is said, have a slightly better midrange and is much easier to drive. With the Bliss I'm not concerned with the latter, but I am curious to hear the midrange. I would also like to hear the updated Focal Utopias and the Meze Elites, but just out of curiosity and, I guess, due diligence. I would truly be surprised if I ended up liking either of those more than the Susvara. My brain is not wired to hear imaging as most of you describe it, other than with a multi-channel speaker-based system and I realize that's cheating, so I can't report on that aspect of them and would have to defer to others on the subject. But I can say that I don't feel any need to upgrade what I already have. After years of trying different HP's, I have built a system (the Bliss is fed by a May KTE DAC, which is fed by a HiFiRose RS130 streamer, which is fed by a Sonic Transporter running Roon) that is truly satisfying and allows me to just relax and listen to the music without that little feeling in the pit of my stomach of "I wonder if I could do better?"