Speaking of hybrids, I also owned the cavalli MCTH from Drop and the Liquid Platinum. Lyr 3 was better than both for my preferences, but the LP did a better job in staging. The MCTH was just mushy. Very soft sounding. Mj2 is just completely different from all of the above. It’s like… The Phonitor X fell in love with with a Bottlehead Crack and had a baby. A loud, angry baby.