UPDATE After 1 month of getting the M50X I got an amp and a DAC. Since then my setup has been the following: 1. ODAC (JDS Labs) w/ stock USB cable 2. AudioQuest Tower RCA cable 3. Fiio K5 amp 4. Audio Technica M50X w/ Brainwavz HM 5 hybrid pads + 4 toilet paper circles (on each side) between...

I think you are right, the DT990 did not produce distortion, to be rigorous with the wording. They over-emphasized those sounds (at least to my taste). I have also lent the DT990 to a colleague of mine to see whether it was just me who noticed that, but he also noticed that over-sibilance. I do...

Thank you very much. Indeed I used the motherboard to power them. But knowing that issue I connected it to father's amplifier, an Audiolab 8000A, which drove them very easily (I had to be quite careful with the volume knob). The distortion was still there, perhaps even worse because the higher...

Hello everyone, My name is João and I am form Portugal. In the last 2 months or so I have been searching for new headphones, because my last ones broke (multiple times), and I noticed that this forum has high quality information posted by many knowledgeable people, and I signed up to be part...