Now I have the answer, a Nucleus ! It was and is still out of budget, but after all of the time (time = $$) I’ve spent on this, lots and lots probably would have behooved me to bite the bullet. Are you familiar with Dan Clark headphones?
Yes, I had a pair of Dan Clark, but I sold them soon after I purchased my Focal Clear. They were Dan Clark AEON X open back. They were good headphones, but I prefer the Focal Clear and I don’t like keeping more things around than what I really need.
It does look like you’re certainly all into nice headphones as they are your main user transducer. My main are a pair of completely rebuilt Quad 63’s. I have had a pair of 6XX’s and Beyerdynamic 1770 Pro’s for quite a while (as well as a Cayin 6Nii DAP and Ray Samuels Emmeline SR71A Blackbird headphone amp) Ray builds, to my thinking, stuff as nice as the Blue Hawaii