Dobro, are you using the Lyrix DAC? If so, your laptop headphone out out must be very good to drive 300 ohm headphones as well as the Lyrix.
If you are feeding the laptop headphone out into the Lyrix, I can see how it might sound similar, but it should still be slight improvement. But, given a good source (iMod, Apogee mini-dac) the amp section of the Lyrix is pretty darn close to the Pico's.
What I suspect is that you are using the stock headphone cable, and in my review of the stock HD600 cable it limited the ability past a certain level of resolution to discern changes in source and amplifier.
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