I'm planning to do a detachable cable mod some day. This cable is really the most terrible thing about these headphones. As I move around this cable will snag and 'grab' onto any edge it can. With my other headphones I can drag the cable across my desk and it'll just slide off obstructions...

Sorry for the late reply. I get far more detail and a wider soundstage from these headphones, even using onboard sound, than I did off any of my previous headphones while using my Asus DG soundcard. At some point I'm going to reinstall my Asus DG soundcard and see if that takes the sound...

The thing that has really impressed me with the HSR-1000 is that, depending on what I'm listening to, I have to take them off to hear what I think are sounds coming from far away.   I was watching a movie with them and at one point I could swear someone was knocking on my front door. I took...

  So far for me the Gemini/Pro80 sounds good enough with onboard computer audio, no headphone amp. It easily gets loud enough for me to think it's too loud. However my Motorola Droid can't power it enough to get it anywhere near what I'd call loud. I'd guess your receiver will do well, I'd...

  Well on one hand that's too bad, on the other at least I don't feel in such a hurry to go out and buy a much more expensive pair of headphones now.

Recently I was in need of new headphones and did some looking around in the low cost category. I forget where, but somewhere I saw Takstar mentioned and that eventually lead me to this thread. Since sub $50 is my range, it's all but impossible for me to find something that sounds good(to me) and...