either the Sennheiser 555s or Audio-Technica A500s both are regarded highly amonsgt here in that price range w/o an amp. Audio-Technica A500s are slightly cheaper, have a wide "boomy" soundstage which makes it great for games and are closed design so provide good sound isolation as well as...

Hi. Soon I'm expecting a Zhaolu 2.0 DAC in my mail so I'm going digital out via toslink. I'm also building a brand new computer with a motherboard that supports Optical out. I read somewhere in head-fi that digital out bypasses the soundcard's dac thus audio quality will relate to the...

there are 10 units on ebay from diykits hk http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...MakeTrack=true

That kind of deminishes half the characteristic(s) of Foobar if you avoid customizing. I think one of the reasons why people support Foobar is its widely customizable interface thru plug-ins. Yes I agree Foobar can be quite time consuming to get it the way you want. But you should give it a...

Another Canadian here. Currently hesitating on buying a DAC-AH(150$) from www.pacificvalve.us . They only ship via UPS to canada Last item I got from them was declared 20$ and I ended up paying "fees" and sh!t worth 20$, a grand total of 200% of the original cost. I wonder how much id...

Sinworm, (or anyone else with X-fi drive bay using DAC) I'm guessing the X-fi Platinum has 3 optional ways to outpit digital? thru the mic-in 'flexi jack', coaxial spdif, and optical spdif on the bay Is there any differences between these methods?

well I got charged 21$CAD for something declared 20$US(shoulda asked him to declare as 15US$). the 'something' was a pair of Sennheiser HD595s so I win at the end. but if the item was really 20$ value I probably would be angry right now

reading all the praises about soundcards over onboard audio, I'm sorta leaning on purchasing one now Assuming that I get a soundcard, would I plug the headphones into the soundcard or the speakers for better quality?? This may sound picky but I'd like to be able to control the headphone...

hi folks. I have just ordered a pair of Audio Technica A500s (heard they're great for gaming) and in the process of building a new PC. I will be using those headphones 90% of the time when on the computer. My question is: which would be better? 1. cheap speakers with a sound card or 2...