Most detailed and clean headphones around $400-$500 USD

[LeDechaine]

Top 10 headphones for micro-detail retrieval?

Just curious. Just for fun. No price limit or anything. Headphones with which you hear cars passing next to the studio. Headphones with which you can hear the difference between AMPS and DACS, etc. Some say, headphones with which you fish for plankton (whatever the hell this means. ) Apparently, Sony MDR-V6/7506 are good old cheap headphones seen everywhere in TV studios because with them “you hear everything, magnified”. But I don’t think I’ll hear more details in that than in my Grado …

Apparently, Sendy Aivas and Hifiman Sundaras are detail monsters.
(And basically everything at 1000$+)