For me the Bathys didn't have enough guts. I felt like when the song had a stirring moment, for example, when the cellos kick in on the Arrival song from the Transformers OST, the Bathys felt disappointing. Maybe they needed to be burned in more but I gave them a few longer listening sessions and found myself disappointed. I will grant you this was mostly over Bluetooth (AptX) but that's my primary use case so that's where I expect them to do well.

I have heard the PX8s have a narrow sound stage and that's not what the Bathys suffer from. The Bathys have a wide sound stage for sure and it feels like you can easily localize each instrument. I loved this aspect of them for sure. I just wish it didn't sound anemic at those higher energy moments. I think the way I would describe it would be at the point where the energy really kicks in it feels like the dynamic range cuts out a bit in the mid to low range. No amount of EQing changed this for me. When I'm listening while working I love those higher energy moments to keep my heart pumping and my heart just wasn't into these headphones.

Sure. If you don't hear from me for 2 weeks just hit me up. They should arrive this week.

I did the same. I returned mine a few days ago. To be honest, they were rather disappointing. I've loved prior Focal products but they sacrificed too much with these. They sounded anemic and they put an odd emphasis on the background. I decided to try the px8s for now, have a pair on order.

It's not as good as Bose or Sony. But it's good enough for most applications. They focused on not upsetting the sound quality in any of the ANC modes over killing the background.