Quote: I don't agree with power hungry headphones sounding good from an iPod. My 600ohm Beyerdynamic's sound awful straight out of my Cowon J3.

Quote: On that note, it might be worth checking out Denon's AH-D1100.

Too bad it's only for the US.

M50?

Yours truly.

Depending on your free space use CBR if you can, variable bit rate files are smaller. I'm fairly sure AAC files are more compressed than MP3 too.

LAME 320kbps.

Quote:   Maybe they were 515's?  

Alpha Centauri by Noisia on DT990's.

Any word on the E17?

I think it's easy for people to get sucked in to the concept of having to have an amp in their portable setup in order for it to sound good. It's sort of going against the purpose of "portability".

I saw at least four pairs of iBuds at Ikea today.

After doing some research and taking the replies from this thread into consideration, I think I'll be better off saving for a higher end amp so I'll stick with the E7/E9 combo for now. Thank you all for the feedback.

Quote:   "They didn't meat my expectations." Oh the irony.

How would a NuForce Icon HD perform with the K702's?