The Changstar consensus: The ideal jazz headphone is also the ideal rock headphone is also the ideal metal headphone is also the ideal country headphone is also the ideal classical headphone, etc.

The idea that any specific headphone is better tailored to a specific genre is completely foreign here. A more important variable might be who mastered it instead of what genre. I'd suggest HF as a better place to solicit such input. Not being mean, but just saying how it is.

Fair enough, I must admit though, on certain level, the idea of absolutes does appeal to me. One "ideal" headphone at every price point for every kind of music seems great. But at the same time some genres of music tend to be recorded and mastered in particular way (when they are carefully recorded and mastered), and thus tend to sound better on headphones which exhibit certain sonic characteristics. Or maybe i'm incorrect in thinking that way.

The ideal Jazz headphone is jazzy.

It oozes so much Jazz that your feet move at the sound of music. It can be a number of headphones but it is that one headphone that makes you count "1, 2, 3, 4" when the music starts before you snap you fingers and whistle or dance away as if the world turned into Jazz.

Is this movie was about competitive knitting and everything else was the same it would be as great a movie as it already is.

I guess this particular form can be regurgitated into any content.