Hi, I'm considering purchasing 600Ω DT880 Premiums for home use and I need an amp to drive them. I don't have much to spend on it (about $150). I was consider the following amps: Focusrite 2i2 Echo audiofire 2 Fiio E9 Objective2 Will any of these drive the 880s or is there a better choice? Thanks.

Hi   I cant decide which one to buy I have the sennheiser HD 650 and the Little Dot MK II tbh they sound just great as they are but I have been told that I will need a DAC as well   What do you think ? PS I am looking for a DAC for around $160 if you know any other choices

 So I just bought the DT880's with 250ohm impedance and haven't gotten an amp or dac yet. I heard that there is a possibility of damaging them from under driving them. I'm using them on my computer right now and I can get them louder than I even need. Is there more to driving headphones than...

Currently running an he 598 powered by fiio e11 and a xonar dg. Looking to upgrade to a much better dac and one that matches the 598. I mostly listen to technobase.fm radio station all day long but I do have all my CDs ripped into lossless flac, such as Celine dion, Barbara Streisand, many 80s...

My current setup is very simple. I am currently using:   Onboard card Winamp + Enhancer DSP plugin. Logitech z523 speakers (It's a 2.1)   I am thinking of getting a new card so I can "fully" appreciate my FLAC files. My budget is around $50 - $100. Also, if you have any...

Hi everyone.   Need some advice here.   At the moment, my PC has a mobo (no soundcard) with a TOSLINK SPDIF out. And I'm using the E17 as both DAC + AMP combo (using the Toslink) to listen to my music. It's serving me well so far but I'm thinking of possible combinations to improve...

I'm a bit confused on this. I need an extremely budget soundcard recommendation (<40 bucks). All I want it to do is provide me with the ability to have 5.1 or preferably 7.1 channel output over coax or optical. This is where my confusion comes in. Is optical limited to 5.1 channels or was that...

Hey guy ive been lurking around the headfi forums for a while. my first purchase after reading suggestions on here was a pair of audio technica ath ad700 headphones that i use for gaming and listening to music on my sanza clip. after hearing what i thought was awsome sound quality compared to...

Hello head-fi community. I purchased a pair of dt770s about a month ago and I love them. I burned them in for 100 hours with white noise and I pair it with a 18v cmoy that also runs off of a 24v dac. I mostly run the headphones out of my integrated sound in my four year old PC. I usually stream...

Posted in another forum but might help to post here too.   I've been using my Fiio E17 + L7 as my DAC and my E17 just died a week ago. It's going to China for repair so I'm trying to figure out if there' s a cheap alternative that I can buy to have as a DAC sufficient for my Audioengine...

Hi i looking for new soundcard i got the speakers microlab solo 6c and headphones - Shure se215 my motherboard (if it matters) - gigabyte ga-770ta-ud3 my budget is : 100$ i think about asus xonar d1 there is another options?

Hi, I'm new to this site and I just had a question I was hoping someone would be able to answer for me. I currently have the Logitech Z623s but I feel like the mids and highs are just okay.       Are there any speakers out there that can keep up with the bass output on these but can do a...

asus xonar dx and grado sr80i headphones i have offer to buy new asus xonar dx sound card for 62 euro. i allready have grado sr80i headphones. on my motherboard i have only pci-e slots can i get quality sound with this combination does dolby effects ruin sound quality on headphones...

  hello all i'm new here and have constantly be recommended to join and read up on these forums for the higher audio knowledge. have always been used to listening to cheap $30-70 headphones and now i want to enter into a world with better sound quality. i plan on 7.1 after listening to...

Hey everybody, new here. I was wondering if there was any cheap options (less than $100) for some sort of knob or dac/amp thing that I could use to connect to my desktop so I could physically change the volume of my headphones without having to alt-tab or go onto my volume settings. I'd like...

I have some Altek Lansing 4.1 speakers that must have come with a computer we bought a while ago. Now I am trying to get them set up because the dell speakers I was using started glitching. Basically the volume would drastically change randomly and at random intervals. Sometimes it would be fine...

I plan on now doing audio out of my computers integrated optic SPDIF out. I have a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AM3 AMD 890FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard, so that is the output I will be running to a Maverick Audio TubeMagic D1 DAC w/ OPA627 OpAmp & GE 5670 Tube, and from there to my...

It will be mostly for gaming/music/general listening.  I want dolby headphone and I was looking at the asus xonar dg, but what's the difference between the DG and DX?  What do you recommend?

Hello everyone!   I'm wondering what the best headphones would be in the price range of $300-400 for Music-JPop, Games, Movies. I recently got my hands on a Razer Tiamat 7.1, but I'm not really satisfied with what comes out of it. I mean, in games its pretty nice, but everything else is...

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Hey everyone! Long time lurker, first time poster here   I'm in the market for a decent headphone amp to pair with a couple pairs of headphones. Right now, I use some low impedance Sennheiser PC 360. However, I recently ordered some Beyerdynamic DT770 PRO 250 ohm, which obviously need...

Hi everyone,   I'm in need of a PCI soundcard to use with Sony MDR-ZX700 headphones. Currently I've got three variants: ASUS Xonar Essence ST, Xonar D2/PM or Xonar D1. I guess it is pretty clear how they compare to each other, and I can afford the ST, but I'm afraid it (or the D2) might be...

Hi. First post here.   Thought this would be the best place to start inquiring.   My gear:   Xonar DG Sony MDR-XD100 Zalman ZM1 Clip-on mic   Yeah, budget stuff. I've been about to improve my audio for a long time for now. Just didn't know where to start. I wasn't exactly...

Hi,   Just a question out of curiosity. I've heard a lot of people say that higher impedance headphones can't really be driven by unamplified sources, and that the volume would be very lacking etc. My DT770s and 880s (both 250 ohms) have no volume issues plugged into the front panel jack of my...

  Currently looking to invest in either CD Player or a Soundcard to push over some AUX cables to my AMP.    My absolute main concern is for quality of audio. I would love to use my computer and iTunes (all Apple Lossless) for ease of use with a soundcard. But in my experience CD players...