Definitely because I got a job doing repairs at Audio Technica US a little over a month ago. I had been through various headphones before, primarily because I found it hard to find ones that were comfortable with glasses, or some had different sounds that I found better for gaming/music.

Now that I've been able to listen to cheap and expensive headphones, open and closed back, and headphones with different materials, it's been growing on me to try other brands and different styles and get a good personal setup going.

Planning on dropping ~$100 on a few different chifi IEMs tonight to get the ball rolling.