Great recommendation! Here's my review: after watching this review and others, I bought these on sale for $250 (open box) about 3 months ago. I have been in love ever since. Not only are they super light, comfy, and well-made, but the Luans have a very carefully, well-tuned sound signature. You can tell someone was trying to achieve something very specific with these and I think they nailed it. They are wide, crystal clear, detailed, airy, and yet have a welcome amount of mid-bass warmth and decent enough bass for things like kick drums and bass guitar to be impactful. That said, don't expect murder bass here. Vocals (especially female), acoustic, electronic music, classical, jazz, rock -- these things sound good in every genre I've tried. Imaging is *good* (not amazing) but they are wonderfully wide which helps with instrument separation. They aren't quite as wide as my AKG K702s (which are insane), but they're pretty close. And, despite having great treble, they are SMOOTH. There's nothing that hurts, ever, unless you come across a truly horribly recorded track. As Zeos points out, they seem to really like tube amps, which smooths them out even more and improves the staging. That said, I only have a cheap desktop hybrid tube amp to test with, but plan to upgrade soon. I can't wait to see how these respond. Also, they're very easy to drive so low gain on any decent amp should be more than enough. I run them balanced but haven't been able to hear a difference in sound quality vs single-ended. One more thing: it's true that you can't swap the pads for 3rd party vendors but you can easily buy replacement light brown or black pads from Sivga. They're only $20 too, at least as of posting this. I bought two extra pairs because that's how long I plan to have these. Their build (all metal and wood) is made to last, so I figured I'd get the pads while I can. If you are looking for something a smidge more fun than totally neutral, smooth and wide, and unbeatable comfort, the Luans are for you. I feel like they don't get enough press for how good of a value they are.
Yes of course any person would like the video is just RU-vid needs to suggest it to more people, I like the class of the beginning of the video very diffe4rent from otrhers but really nice, forgive my typos
