I bounce around a lot but I’m mostly on an electro swing and EDM kick lately. I find that the headphones of choice drive the my selection subconsciously.
I am the same way. When I have great music playing and a great set of headphones on I can close my eyes and the normal world just fads away all problems etc. I wish I had my friends pair of Empyrean headphones or the pair of Focal Utopias he has. Maybe one day I can have a pair of 3k headphones but the sound has to be out of this world for that. I can have Hans Zimmer music playing and ya I can loose track of time to playing Muse or other artist. I look at hi end headphones as a work of art. A airtist or a team of artist making something. Headphones are not just headphones but a vision of a artist sound. That goes for AMPS to DACs. 
Reminds me of my nephew
O she wanted to go away and dance. Ya not with the headphones. She sticks out her tongue and turns the 789 volume up and says… Wow lol 
My nephew turned 2 back in January, and doesnt quite understand it beyond its music. Though he does like my ProtaPros
I am planning on watching the live launch of the Space X launch next week in FL. Going to have on my headphones and want to hear it. America is going back to space for the first time since over 10 years ago. Ready for launch.
I remember being in FL for a shuttle launch. I was so close the sound waves shook my entire body and it was a once in a life time thing. 
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I lived there for many years… Saturn 5 launches would rattle your teeth!, shuttles were amazing as well.
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I am to young (1982) for the Apollo age and the huge Satern V rocket. I remember from high school going out and watching the shuttle launching. I grew up knowing one of my heros. My mom was a teacher with his sis. He was a NASA Astronaut and flew the shuttle and was the commander of mission and was the ISS commander on 9/11. His name is Frank Culbertson. Cool guy and so many stories. He is the one that told me the entire Challenger crew lived through the explosion and the front part of the shuttle was made to detach from the rest of the shuttle. It came off and passed through 60k feet. The front windows were blown out. The crew were not in pressure suits. They passed out and died on impact with the Atlantic. He said we learned a lot from that as well as the shuttle Columbia. NASA just told the public each crew died instantly.
Challenger to this day is tough for me… I was at Cape Canaveral that day working and watched it… Knew something was off the second it left the pad… Horrific to say the least.
They should have never launched. It’s was all about money. NASA put money above the crew.
This is on you when she wants a pair of Orpheus for her birthday.
my buddy from Florida took a kayak and skirted all the patrols on a night launch for a shuttle when he was a teen. attributes a lot of his hearing loss to that night.
edit - anyhow…we probably should start talking about the amp again, LoL!
So the 789… NASA… Headphones… NASA… Space… Lol
On linear trip back to the amp now!!
The biggest thing I have noticed with the THX 789 and the Airist Dac over the last few days is vocals and the sense of depth in the music. When I go right into the 789 it sounds great but this DAC makes the sound just…wow… it takes the 789 sound and pushes it to new level of wow. It reminds me of being in sound design class and playing music on the 500k or more sound stuff in the studio.
I may have to put my my CTH-SDAC up for sale now lol
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The airist for me will remain in my collection for the foreseeable future. But if you think that sounds good… BF2 + a brighter amp that is a bit more holographic. CLOUD 9. The BF2 is for a touch more warmth, great DAC to A/B a song.
Like you said MON would say…A DAC matters…lol
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This with the THX 789 and the DAC…dear GOD. I can almost feel the impact of the sound waves lol.
My CX did something no other headphone I have has done just out of the clean blue. They all of a sudden needed way less volume and now I am still on high gain but at 9 o’clock rather than 2-3 o’clock. I have had headphones break over time but never had one just when playing music do it and could hear the change.
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