Without knowing or being able to control all of the variables - the most important being our hearing vs. yours - it's going to be hard to do more than offer encouragement to A/B as many of these as you can. Any input you get is really just personal opinion and based on situations and stuff that's not like yours. Some will really like B&W over the others, some really dislike B&W vs. Sigs or VS or JM Labs or whatever. Those are all really personal opinions and personal preferences. Our opinions are just that - they're ours. You need to form yours.
We all differ physiologically and our wiring and experiences aren't all the exact same - bottom line is we all hear and perceive a little differently. Objective reviews with meaningful measurements can get you part of the way, but there is absolutely no substitute for your going out and auditioning (and hopefully A/B'ing) your choices. You're talking about a little more than chump change here, so my suggestion is that you invest that time so you'll have a chance to be as thrilled with your choice as folks like Mattblueg35 are with theirs. Good luck!
We all differ physiologically and our wiring and experiences aren't all the exact same - bottom line is we all hear and perceive a little differently. Objective reviews with meaningful measurements can get you part of the way, but there is absolutely no substitute for your going out and auditioning (and hopefully A/B'ing) your choices. You're talking about a little more than chump change here, so my suggestion is that you invest that time so you'll have a chance to be as thrilled with your choice as folks like Mattblueg35 are with theirs. Good luck!