Here's a track most revealing phones I've heard have a hard time making this song truly enjoyable — upper mids and treble being quite problematic. Warm phones obviously fare better but fail with so many other tracks/albums. The Angie does very, very well with this track (brilliantly, actually).

No phones make this one sound good to me     

That's what impressed me, in this case, about the Angies, as other revealing phones make this track very difficult for me to listen to (at higher volumes). The only way, with my other revealing phones, to enjoy this track is/was to, er, turn the volume down.

Haha I meant that I don't think this track is very good as a piece of music. But that's just me. I agree with you though that the Angies have very good treble. It's the first thing that I noticed when I auditioned them. They were very impressive in that regard; seemingly being able to render minute treble detail without glare or what have you.

Now, let's get to some good Radiohead tracks (IMHO of course )

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Back on topic you rascals.

Last week I get a surprise email from a very good friend:

"Well, a certain sparrow's speedy key-pecking over on changstar finally encouraged a certain XXX to spring for a pair of Angies. I hope to have them early to mid next week."

A few hours ago I got the following:

"The Angies are here. What a great box opening experience! These are up there with the prettiest phones I have seen. And I was unaware they included the balanced cable, great surprise! Needless to say, they sound absolutely fabulous and will definitely tide me over until I get the UERMs back. However they might easily become my favourite phone in the meantime (only have about 30 minutes on them so far). It is fantastic that their low level detail is excellent since I am still resting my right ear from higher volumes, though they sound so good I must resist the temptation to turn them up. Bass, at the stock setting [2 o'clock in his case] is really, really nice."

My friend has the UERM and has owned several TOTL earphones and headphones (LCDs, HD800s, TH900s, and I believe he once owned a pair of Orpheus, too).

The only errata is that I have never owned a pair of LCDs. Everything else the sparrow says is true (I can add hd650, hd600, k3003, er4s, dita, jh13, jh16 to this list, etc. Not bragging only adding context). Been listening to the Angies all day now. Hate to praise them as much as the bird does, because I have had two terrible customer service experiences with JHA, but my ears (and fingers) cannot lie, this is a special set of phones. Truly superb from top to bottom. To the point that resting my overstimulated right ear has taken a backseat to enjoying the wonderful sound these iems produce at higher volumes. And I thought the LAB Is were the end of my iem journey. Now I know there is no end...