moondrop blessing is the ideal IEM companion to the HD800

Consider me Miles Davis?

Limestone riverbeds will be blue due to reflections off of the grains of eroding white limestone.

Sitting here listening to A Moon Shaped Pool on my trusty old 650's, and I only kinda regret selling my SDR-modded HD800's a few years ago.

The 800's are something special. That said the bleed is insane, and I couldn't warrant them sitting around only being used to listen to Yo Yo Ma and Steely Dan to death. That said, I miss the space the 800's created--hard to beat, but damn those things are big.

When the image or 'form' of the 'thing' in your mind associates with the word in a new language rather than having to actually process the translation from your original language to the new one - that's when you 'know' a language, IME. And its when more than 80% of the words coming out of someone's mouth have that image association in your head despite accent, speed, age, colloquialisms, etc.

I became fluent in Fijian (for the most part, its a non-written language) in the 90's when I lived there, and learning a language by experience (vs study/books) really reinforces my point above. The sound associates with the image in your brain--that's when you 'know' a language.