Same here, so I "voted" equally preferable (as compliant with Harman) but the vote is already closed of course and I will see what is the verdict.
My guess is, I would prefer HP1 as a listener.
Same. The bump centered around 200hz in headphone 2's response has turned me off to other headphones.
For those who thought the second one was better, what was your thinking?
More bass (as opposed to the bass deficiency in headphone 1) might have been weighted more heavily in favor of headphone 2, along with better compliance through the critical upper mids.
But per comment above, I would personally have guessed headphone 1 would be MY preference. Though that wasn't the question that was asked.
In general I'm more forgiving of too much sub bass, too little upper bass, and too little mids and highs (all within reason, of course).