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I played 'Take The Time' with the Senn IE800 and Microstreamer DAC, and the hi-hats sounded clean enough, but I couldn't be sure about absolute graininess etc. since they were in the background enough that the rest of the sound was too distracting. The kind of content this track has would tend to get mushy on low-cost full-size headphones.
The IE800 is known for strong bass (try Trombone Shorty's Backatown), but with Parisian Goldfish the bass impacts were pretty gentle. I haven't heard the UE900, but with Logitech's UE6000 (and presumably the 9000), the bass has bass, if you know what I mean.
The Dragonfly damps bass very well on most everything I've tried, so I'm thinking if you played Goldfish with just the laptop headphone jack or some small analog amp from a DAP, the bass would really bloat up.